The spot was charming, and Lily was not insensible to the charm, or to the fact that her presence enhanced it; but she was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company, and the combination of a handsome girl and a romantic scene struck her as too good to be wasted. No one, however, appeared to profit by the opportunity; and after a half hour of fruitless waiting she rose and wandered on. She felt a stealing sense of fatigue as she walked; the sparkle had died out of her, and the taste of life was stale on her lips.
Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
Talk to media dragons and strangers: Be a nosey neighbor, sit by the old woman on the swing, everyone has a story. Share your life, open up, tell stories, take risks, wherever you go, there you are. Don?t be afraid of yourself
Bill Ives is just one of the least scared networkers and he links dangerously to Network Weaving – Valdis Krebs & Freinds
The Blog, The Press, The Media: Think Again: Google
In only eight years, the darling of the Internet world has rocketed to fame and fortune. Boasting users in every corner of the world, the popular search engine is the quintessential American success story. Yet it has begun to draw skepticism from Wall Street and the ire of human rights groups. Is Google really as kind, ubiquitous, and omnipotent as it seems?
Google is the gateway to the Internet for hundreds of millions of users worldwide. From Arabic to Zulu, the search engine can be used in more than 100 languages—even fake ones such as Esperanto and Klingon. In the United States, Google is the unquestionable market leader.
• Repeat the important questions, why don?t I get this? Find the crux of the biscuit. Google is the unquestionable market leader [Google Book Search has launched the Inside Google Book Search Search Cold Rivers ; Google Trends - A Useful Blogging Tool : Sasha Imrich has a top spot on Google just like Gabbie ;-) Sasha: the glaring obvious voice; Tom Stoppard MindBullets: Every exit is an entry somewhere else!]
• · The Economist takes a look at noteworthy articles from business journals. Nobody's Perfect, but a Team Can Be ; Stan Garfield’s KM Related Blogs ; Darren Rowse with his gadgets. A blog's life
• · · Lessons from the Browser Wars: Are They Missing Something? ; Nice piecees of reporting and linking The amazing John Battelle ; Now Seth’s ability to hold seminars that attract people willing to pay that much for his time doesn’t only come from writing his blog Seth embodies the ‘give it away‘ strategy that many bloggers making money indirectly from blogs use
• · · · Interesting to me that some people don't like blogs with lots of links. Hmm. I guess to some, blogs are for writing. To a media dragon and researcher, though, blogs are for links. Always have been. Blogs help me find new things I never thought about or found before. More links the better. Campaign to Prevent Massive Linkdumping ; Blogging discussion ; Elisabeth (Liz) Donovan Behind the News is a Weblog
• · · · · Organized Crime and Corruption Bibliographic Database Search The hiding of wealth ; Organized Crime Web Links ; Witness to the Holocaust ; Find more about the Holocaust by searching the archive The Holocaust
• · · · · · Extraordinary similarities between the South Sea Bubble of 1720 and the recent technology bubble Financial Bubbles; Gangrey.com, a reporters' blog 'prolonging the slow death of newspapers', highlighting great writing. Into The Light ; A law student once asked Judge Benjamin Cardozo, then on the New York Court of Appeals, why he got all the interesting cases. He replied that the cases were not particularly interesting until he started to think about them. I observed that phenomenon with Judge Bazelon, who managed to turn the most mundane criminal cases into vehicles for raising the most profound legal and moral issues of criminal responsibility, the role of defense counsel and the relationship betwen poverty and crime. His passion was reflected in his opinions and his life's work. It was also contagious, and many young lawyers who worked for him caught it. I know I did Journalists, Lawyers, Bloggers Etc.