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Serendipity

August 5th, 2007 · No Comments · Four pillars

I enjoyed reading this Smart Mobs story (incidentally by Judy Breck, someone whose books and blog I enjoy reading). An article written in South Africa, referring to an Indian paper, quoting an English agency, with a story datelined Los Angeles, about a barbershop in Austin, Texas.
Particularly since I’m Indian, I live in England, my last [...]

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Quote of the Day

August 5th, 2007 · No Comments · Four pillars

James McGovern:
Did you know that there are more folks practicing Hinduism in Vatican City than there are folks in the Enterprise Content Management community that blog?
Great stuff from James. Turkeys, kitchens and Christmas.

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All dressed up with everywhere to go: More musings about Facebook in the enterprise

August 5th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Four pillars

There have been a lot of comments about Facebook in the blogosphere, and I think some people are missing the point.  For some reason, all the talk is about the applications.
It’s not about the applications. It’s about the people.
Facebook is first and foremost a collection of people, a community. Many communities. Yet one community. What [...]

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Global digital inclusion and debt and corruption

August 5th, 2007 · No Comments · Four pillars

If you haven’t seen it already, it’s worth taking a look at this Maplecroft map of digital inclusion. Just for the fun of it, choose the indebtedness option (choose Debt under Maps Alphabetically on the upper left hand side). Isn’t it amazing that there is so much correlation between “extreme”  indebtedness and high digital inclusion? [...]

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