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Paul Krugman asks: “Could it be that traditional families aren’t as crucial to social cohesion as advertised?”
His conclusions are insightful, but I feel they are not exactly on the money. He concedes that social […]

Yesterday, two of my friends (on 2 different online communities) shared quotes. I wrote a blog post about one — but I am rather uncertain about whether I was able to get my point across coherently or not: How to […]

The first question that needs to be answered about socialisation is: What kind of society do we want?
The social order of most democratic societies today is governed by a constitution and written laws. In most […]

The Mainstream Media Industrial Complex

That’s quite a mouthful. Of course such a declaration of independence speaks to the (United States) American mentality — but I think such a “cocky” attitude does not go over quite as well worldwide.
Nonetheless, […]

The website is being called “Dialog über Deutschland” — and apparently it is severely understaffed. Suggestions are either not being posted at all or not until long after being submitted. It almost seems as if […]

Either you’re with us or you’re against us

This is an Anonymous message from the Global revolution to politicians dictators and plutocrats all over the planet. Surprised by the global disobedience? Let us explain […]

Who cares about Google? Only morons and noobs still believe in that crap.
For those of you who still aren’t clued in: Google = 99 + 44/100% SPAM!

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 […]

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 […]

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

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