From the monthly archives:

November 2008

Twitter, Heroin and Time-Warping

by Phil Baumann on November 30, 2008

in health, twitter

Do you Twitter? Does Twitter distract you from your goals, endpoints and purposes? When using Twitter, do you lose your sense of time? Do you feel brain-drained from too much tweeting or not enough? Simple question: Are you addicted to Twitter?
Being fully engaged in any activity and feeling a sense of well-being or losing your [...]

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Daily Diigo Discoveries 11/30/2008

by Phil Baumann on November 30, 2008

in improvement

The intersection of social media and the cloud
tags: cloud, social media, azure, microsoft

Mumbai: Twitter’s Moment – Forbes.com
tags: twitter, mumbai

The End of Wall Street’s Boom – National Business News – Print – Portfolio.com
tags: hedge fund, CDS, bailout, wall street, depression, economy

“ ‘The Lomas Financial Corp. is a perfectly hedged financial institution: It loses money in every conceivable [...]

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Thanksgiving 1951: Delayed Pilgrims

by Phil Baumann on November 27, 2008

in life

I was born in the short Summer of Love to parents who endured long Winters of Hate in madness-torn Hungary. My parents came to this country in 1951 after spending about seven years in a Dispaced Persons (DP) camp in Austria: a place with little hope, food, shelter, clothing, heat. Hungarians each, they lived through [...]

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Daily Diigo Discoveries 11/27/2008

by Phil Baumann on November 27, 2008

in improvement

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tags: bailout, GM, economy, wall street, federal reserve

Our standard of living must decline to reflect years of reckless consumption and the disintegration of our industrial base. Only by swallowing this tough medicine now will our sick economy ever recover.

Scary Bailout Money Info Graphic | Voltage Blog
tags: bailout, graphic

ABC News: Financial Bailout Balloons to the Trillions
tags: bailout, [...]

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Health 2.0 on RWW Live

by Phil Baumann on November 25, 2008

in Uncategorized

Earlier today, RWW held a call on Health 2.0. If you’re interested in what some bright entrepreneurs are doing with healthcare technologies and social media, you definitely should check out RWW’s live call.
In this video I discuss some thoughts on the topic, with special emphasis placed on two key ingredients for a successful transition to [...]

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