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Squirrels, long working hours, and social technologies

Biznology

Just take a look at your email inbox, your Facebook wall, your cable TV directory, and the volume of your digital photo or audio collection. To add insult to injury, you don’t even have time to process that backlog, as your calendar is now crowded with double or triple-booked time-slots. Is there any way out of this mess?

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Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody

Buzz Marketing for Technology

. | TrackBacks (0). This is a lightly edited transcription of a speech I gave at the Web 2.0 conference, April 23, 2008.). I was recently reminded of some reading I did in college, way back in the last century, by a British historian arguing that the critical technology, for the early phase of the industrial revolution, was gin.