Rights group say China promised hosting the Games would help human rights, China says it didn’t. What’s up?

The Beijing Olympic Bid Committee’s Wang Wei said in July 2001: “We are confident that the Games coming to China not only promotes our economy, but also enhances all social conditions, including education, health and human rights.” And Beijing’s Mayor Liu Qi said, in a news story on 14 June 2001: “(The Olympic Games) will [...]

The evolution of social networking, bebo, myspace, twitter, facebook. is it a good thing or a bad thing?

Originaly, social networking as i knew it when i was about 14, out popped Msn messenger, bebo and myspace. Nothing much is spoken about myspace or bebo anymore, within a couple of years it has manifested into twitter and facebook, what next. Have you noticed a change in human behaviour since social networking came along. [...]

Answer For Search And Social Media Marketing For Tough Times By Rajiv Parikh

I was excited by the large turn-out at the Q&A session I hosted in Santa Clara at SMX West—the popular conference for online and search engine marketing experts. Leading up to the SMX conference what weighed on my mind was the obvious—our collective anxiety about the recession and the ubiquitous pressure to do more with [...]

4 Characteristics of Social Media Optimization vs SEO

There is a need in all humans to feel connected with one another, to interact with others and to be able to relate to another person. Social media optimization thrives on that need. Social media is all about communication. Its about sharing perspectives, insights, experiences and opinions with one another via blogs, wikis, message boards, [...]

What books do you recommend?

I’m looking for a few books regarding the development of the Internet and (online) gaming as social media. I prefer to have something that doesn’t focus on the technical side and instead focuses on the human side of it.

Social Media – The Friendship Advantage

If you’ve ever heard of Inspector Gadget then you know this detective had access to several personal devices to assist him in unraveling mysteries and determining who the bad guy was. Beyond the cartoon a couple of live action movies were developed in response to this larger than life comic hero. Social media has become [...]

Social Inequality: Propaganda Through the Media: Ways In Which We Treat One Another?

..dog-eat-dog world.. How do we turn it around? How does it affect you when you see people working hard, yet, get treated like dirt, like they are scum of the earth and less deserving than animals in the wild? How does it surprise you when you see humans treat other humans worse than they treat [...]

What is Social Media Marketing?

The inspiration for this article lies in a fantastic slide presentation I saw fairly recently on slideshare.net. The presentation, aptly named “What the f*** is social media?” was put together by Marta Z Kagan. Over 74 slides, one is just hit with fact after fascinating fact – initially about the reach and penetration of social [...]

Do you honestly believe that some human beings are born homosexual or bisexual, therefore their DNA………..

… firmly & effectively “established” their sexuality in utero, or do you rather believe that they become homosexual or bisexual later on in life, for example just before pubescence hits, due to external influences such as peer pressure from school, friends or maybe even relatives, the media, the social circles they gravitate towards, what they [...]

As a culture are we Americans heading toward a truly bisexual social socity?

I realise I’m a relic, but in watching the tube, and reading certin periodicals, it looks as thought bisexuality is the logical destination. Is all of this just media hipe or am I looking at the future of human sexuality. I’m trying to be very serious here. Think about this question, before answering

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