Newsweek
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Elton John had a song out a while ago. Your Song. Newsweek, when it was still in print, had a page called My Turn (that had been before the Internet with immediate comments and re-tweet). Now, the Art of the Start‘s author, Guy Kawasaki, asked readers what they want included in his next revision of…
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The Post is now under new ownership. So is the iconic Newsweek. Both incidentally got taken over by jungle-like entities like Amazon and the Beast, respectively. New world order (or jungle order). The “barbarians” are once again at the gate. New totem pole. New titanic shift, from analog to digital, from print to online. I…
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Post-holiday blues. Cabin fever. And the return of routine. And the Oscar goes to…… We weeded out unwanted inventory and unfriended people. Clearing the deck and crank up the engine. Sports Illustrated illustrates tan and skin underneath winter jacket. While Readers Digest finally suffers inDigestion. Books of the Times and books of the Post. New…
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When you are inside, you are hard-presed and unable to think. But when you are out of the bubble, it’s illuminating. You are able to look back, to gain perspectives. Bubble by definition is that which encompasses those who subscribe to its rules (deposit here, withdraw there). We got the Tulip mania in Holland, Ponzi…
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I read about and followed with much interest the Penn State game this past weekend. Where is Joe? First he was absent on the side line, where his rolled up pants were a fixture more than signature. Then he went up on the booth. This past Saturday, he wasn’t there either, nor was his statue.…
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After the trilogy: Start seeing, start hearing and start thinking, I am on the roll. Behaviorists have debated whether action precedes attitude, or vice versa. Nike commands: JUST DO IT. Start acting. Some guy somewhere mustered his courage to ask for a girl’s hand. That girl after much deliberation, accepted. Boom! Action. We are conceived out of…
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For years, Newsweek had devoted one-page My Turn for reader’s Op-ed. This move paved the way for crowdsourcing and blogging, which are both technology-enabled (same way the Karaoke machine let the audience to have their turn at the mike). We will come to a point in the future where past practices (museum, musical hall and magazines) criss-cross with…
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Among Dylan’s many memorable lines is “you don’t need the weatherman to tell you which way the wind is blow-in”. Even without the weatherman, we can feel that things are at a boiling point. Like in the movie “the Network”, people start to open their windows and bell out “I am mad like Hell, and…
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