Category Archives: Ideas

In Honor of Arnold and Facebook

Image via Wikipedia So Arnold wrote this piece about the growing dominance of Facebook (is that my internet home???).  In honor of some of the questions he raised, I am going to throw some possibilities out about the questions of search: It might be that search is not the answer, finding is.  And finding, is [...]
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Flash Me! (Not really)

Image by mattwi1s0n via Flickr Some interersting articles appeared on my radar about, of all things, flash mobs. For those who do not know, a flash mob is: A flash mob (or flashmob) is a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual and pointless act for a brief time, then quickly disperse. [...]
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Children And Teens In the Media Space

I’m not the one for great political/legal arguments most of the time (Yell at me later about this one), but this one is makes for an interesting opener for the following thought)   At what age does a minor (if at all, and if you believe in such things), get the death penalty? Not such [...]
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Over-Advertisement makes me Want You!

Image by Christian Bachellier via Flickr Actually it makes me want nothing. I’m living in the age of over-advertisement.  It’s everywhere, and often misplaced.  My to be children, by the time they are 6, are more likely to know the cartoon character Ronald McDonald that to recongize the face of their current President.  And I’m [...]
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On Venture Capital, Aliya, And Israel

Image via Wikipedia One note about this post: Disqus allows me to keep a heavy eye on you all.  I’m not out to have a politics here or politics there talk.  This is not a YAY ISREAL or a BOOO ISRAEL post.  My politics are my politics and they are shaped by my experiences and [...]
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The AVC People List

Image by ShanaLC via Flickr I’m not sure what to say right now.  Though the AVC People list is here. (now you can’t complain, it is at the top of the post.) Originally I had started this list many moons ago because Fred Wilson told me that I should follow the people on AVC.com in [...]
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Freedom and Google

Image via Wikipedia Normally I avoid the subject of freedom at all costs. But the Google/China standoff has made it really important to say something, because I’m watching this in more bated breath than Haiti. Most people, upon meeting me, don’t realize that I burn with certain questions, one of them being “What does it [...]
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Mediation on Religion: Or How to Culture Jam Judaism on the Internet

To the people who have educated me and supported me along the way: Thanks. One other note: I have a lot of social data on this subject.  I did a whole 10 page research paper on a related parts of this Judaism, Culture Jamming, and how it affected funding decisions, with footnotes, in 2007.  Apparently [...]
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The Paper!

Paper is below.  trust me, you want it this way.  If you feel like the thesis is weak, so do I.  I also know that I went way over the 5 page limit double spaced…
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The pre paper post

Originally it came with whole lots of warnings.  No I’m not happy with it.  It’s hard to write when you are hiding yourself, and have a page limit for a difficult question.  I really wanted a lot of time to explain myself (such a me thing).  I feel like I really do need to write [...]
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