…you lose sight of the very thing you wish to achieve: building a community that matters. You see what I did with this post’s title? When this post gets tweeted (which will be about 5 times over the next year) by automatic features of Twitter clients , that hashtag will be entered into the stream. Regular [...]
The machines take over. Millions of machines tweeting their data. Millions of machines following other machines, retweeting to other machines following the ever-expanding Cloud of tweets. Billions of tweets propounding per second: news of their work…calls to action. Trillions of nanobots moving guanine, cytosine…reverse transcriptase…transmuting carbon molecules into alchemical dreams. All this mechanical purposing evolves [...]
…will go on and on and on until exhaustion – not of passion for improvement, but of want of focus – pronounces its death-nell upon the lost. For the future of technological survival belongs to the wise, to the ones who know the balance between focus and serendipity, between searching and conversing, between nature and [...]
Like RT Share +1 Let’s be honest: the media we have begun to use aren’t exactly social. “Social” means living or communicating or collaborating directly with other people: I like you. I don’t Like you. As we Like, RT, Share and + away, what we’re doing is pushing buttons which activate vicarious ecosystems. The platforms [...]
Her lymphedema made the thoughts worse. What was worse – the pain of swelling, having to hold her arm above her broken heart, or the loss of her first child’s suckling grace – mound of milk she tendered to his mouth thirteen years ago? The world is so full with pain that some people just [...]
…Because: Long-term success is inversely proportional to how seriously you take it. We can choose to be offended or choose to be informed. Most of us choose the first option. Obviously. — Health Is Social (@HealthIsSocial) January 29, 2012
…it doesn’t mean that I’ll buy what you Liked. This applies to cars as much as to health initiatives. Being liked and being sold are different matters. In fact, the best things sold to the world are too often the most disliked: Civil rights Exercise Forgiveness Leaders sell. Followers like. But who buys? Ah, that’s [...]
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