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“A Mori poll for the Home Office suggests 53% of people think poor parenting is the main cause of bad behaviour and 85% blame parents for allowing children to become out of control.”
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“”One of the biggest challenges… is to fight that perception that old versions of software are good enough,” said Microsoft’s Chris Capossela.”
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“Linden Lab has promised it will release tools to protect people’s virtual assets in the first quarter of 2007.”
DRM in Second Life. I wonder if they’ll actually devise a workable model? -
Interesting to see more and more use of games and gaming in teaching.
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“Some people seem to find it impossible to believe that social media can create value even as all around them people seem to do so.”
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Fantastic “Marketing 2.0” manifesto. Some real gold here.
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Nice little extension that lets you make the tabs tiny again — useful for me when I have hundreds open!
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“To make consistent, powerful headway on your long-term goals, you have to devote yourself to becoming an outstanding manager of your time, effort and focus exactly where you are now. Fixing the process of how you work has to be a top priority.”
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These are so very very scary.
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“Evidence from parents in the general population suggests there is assortative mating for systemizing, such that people who are attracted to systems are more likely to have a partner who shares this characteristic.”
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“Approaching markets with proprietary intentions — to “own” them, or parts of them — is a fatal mistake. Better to look for how your ideas can make markets. If you do that, you’ll get credit for your ideas.”
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“It’s no longer just enough for people to believe that your product does what it says on the label. They want to believe in you and what you do. And they’ll go elsewhere if they don’t.”
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Some great tips from Gina on taking good cameraphone photos. I have to admit, I don’t even HAVE a “normal” camera anymore — I never remembered to keep it with me. Cameraphones are the future.
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“If you’re not thinking about where you want to be 90 days from now, you’ll never end up there.”
Posted by delicious @ 9:26 PM on November 21, 2006
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