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Der Frauenhof in Frankfurt-Niederrad ist eins der wenigen erhaltenen Barock-Gebäuden im Raum Frankfurt:

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Edelman has published a their annual “Edelman Trust Barometer” report (for a quick summary, see also the FIR coverage [near the end of the podcast]) — and this year, they have noted that — amid a loss of trust […]

Richard Edelman talks about results from the 2012 Edelman Trust Barometer study:

Question: Is there — perhaps — an inverse relationship between the trust in media […]

… — but remember, S.H.: a mountain is something you don’t want to F with

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See “Entrepreneurs cannot exist in a vacuum” (I must admit that I was also familiar with Professor Krugman’s “clusters” ideas before I wrote this)

At about the same time as I wrote the post about Adam Kmiec’s “social media advice“, Shel Holtz and Neville Hobson were on the telephone with Adam Kmiec — and it has already been posted at the FIR homepage (note […]

Today I want to introduce a new hypothesis: That the reason we share information with each other is due to an elemental need humans have — to share information about the society they are members of (both within a […]

Are intellectual property rights social wrongs? The Social Contract as Human Information Technology: How Individual Character is Socially Constructed Via Social Interaction

A couple years ago, I still read “tweets” (that is what a lot of so-called social media gurus call blog posts posted at twitter.com). Back then, one of my favorite authors @ twitter.com was Adam Kmiec.
After I […]

‘Piraten, Wutbürger, Bankenhasser: Protest im Film und auf der Straße‘ Wie Film und Gesellschaft auf die Herausforderungen reagieren. Diskussion anlässlich des ’33. Max-Ophüls-Filmfestivals’ Mitschnitt der […]

No one exists in a vacuum — and entrepreneurs are certainly no exception. Yet there is a myth — the myth of the “self-made” entrepreneur. I want to dis-spell this myth — and to do so I would like to use one of […]

Following up on yesterday’s post about how even Danny Sullivan has now basically called out Google as corrupt (and “evil”), I believe it is now time to move on.
As a first step in this direction, I share some […]

New + Improved: Findings

There are many ways to find things. For example: you may find something lovely or delicious. One of my favorite corollaries of Murphy’s Laws is that you will always find something in the last place that you look […]

If you want to say something, please say it once… — and then shut up.
Thanks!

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Paul Krugman is confused — he declares that he is anti-social:

I don’t use any social media; the only legit Twitter account is the robot announcing new posts on this blog. Oh, and I don’t post comments on other […]

Some men have a problem with their masculinity — not Om Malik.
His blog covers many aspects of his life — technology, business, gadgets and men’s fashion. Here’s an excerpt from one of his posts:

I have been […]

Several years ago I was introduced to “Open Space Technology” — a rather new approach to organisation and group behavior (see Occupy Open Space) — and in my view the Occupy Movement has indeed embraced much of […]

One of the strengths of the Occupy Movement is that it seems to embrace many aspects of Open Space Technology (such as the “Law of Two Feet”).
We’ve set up a tumblr blog to delve deeper into further and additional […]