A very telling graph should depict at a glance what’s going on with newspaper subscriptions. Any doubts about what the future holds for delivery of the news?
Boris Epstein does a thorough post on using Facebook for professional networking. I’ve always considered LinkedIn more suited for professional networking, but the post lays out a reasonable approach for making something useful of Facebook as well. (You will have to ignore all the quizzes and zombie games though.)
Some of these vintage ads are pretty disturbing — makes me wonder what they’ll say about the current crop of ads in 50 years?
Just skimmed The Startup Entrepreneur’s Guide To Risk Management: good piece. I always knew my background in risk management was an entrepreneurial asset, but it’s often little-appreciated in context. Tidbit: there’s a 35% chance you’ll be killed by one of the survive all ten items you have a 90% chance of getting right.
Malcolm Gladwell interviewed in The Independent: “‘One day, I’ll write a really nerdy book’… but until then, Malcolm Gladwell will be the rock star of non-fiction. As he embarks on a British tour, the author talks to David Usborne about plane crashes, Gordon Brown – and why Obama’s election was a true tipping point”
A Website Magazine article covers Free/Open Source alternatives to software from Microsoft & Co. It’s a little Ubuntu-centric (I’d recommend Mandriva, PCLinuxOS, OpenSuSE…) and misstates one point: OpenOffice is not Ubuntu’s office suite, it’s Sun’s, and is the office suite Ubuntu commonly uses.
Bud Caddell’s diagram gets it right; one of those images that easily substitutes for 1,000 words. Reminds me of the diagram I used to use to illustrate the ideal client: those in the center, naturally.
Oh, this is desperate, alright. And I would have said it’s a mistake to refer to the economy in advertising.
 We’ve heard about people losing jobs over what they’ve blogged or posted to Facebook… and here comes the first case of job loss over an ill-advised “tweet”. You’d think that when applying to Cisco, you’d bear in mind that they might have heard of the social web.
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