Sorta like the recent article I posted on Iceland’s citizens going back to fishing… only different. Instead of acquiring jobs that actually produce something physical (or even to another industry altogether), they’re relocating to other areas of the country and sticking with the financial industry. So, basically the rats are abandoning ship and Wall Street is experiencing population decline.
Interesting article, but left me slightly disturbed when the author referred to the talents of bankers and brokers as “rarified.”
… in what world?
awwww… look at the sad little banker…
Original Description:
Bankers and brokers looking to escape the financial meltdown are scrambling to relocate their families, possessions and rarified talent far from Wall Street to places such as Florida, Chicago, Milwaukee, Virginia and Asia.
A Japanese man set fire to the hotel where he was due to get married at the weekend, rather than go through with the ceremony later the same day, newspaper reports said Monday. Tatsuhiko Kawata, 39, had gone along with wedding plans despite already having a wife, the Yomiuri newspaper said.
With so much emphasis being placed on the world economy, certain sports, including soccer, may be the inadvertent beneficiaries of good fortune because of it.
This piece takes a long and detailed look at the game, the history behind the premise, and discusses why a failing global economy may be just what the doctor ordered to bring soccer back to its state of prominence on the world scene. Between increases in the need of affordable soccer apparel to a decrease in teams that would lead to a reinvigoration of the sport, the article discusses topics that few have the guts to say Read more…
With all the power that social media has to drive traffic, doesn’t it make sense that they should put more emphasis on driving traffic to stories that inform about issues and offer ways for people to help? On the surface, the question seems like a no-brainer, but as we explored the subject further and discussed it with other users, challenges started popping up.
Charity has never been a strong point of social media. The concept that drives most of these sites is that they display current events and the opinions surrounding them submitted by users and voted to the front page by the community. With politics and technology issues dominating the popular sections of most social news sites, it makes sense that philanthropic stories get very little play.
When I wrote an article about Social Media Power and how sites like Digg, Reddit, Slashdot, StumbleUpon, Newsvine, NowPublic, and Yahoo! Buzz could do more for the world, I placed too much emphasis on how these sites themselves could contribute to society. My mistake: it’s the users who are better positioned to help. They just need a little push in the right direction and incentives from the sites themselves. Read more…
That has to be the wisest social media child of all time. The insight. The clarity of thought. For someone so young, to be filled with the inside knowledge of the bannings, autobury, and so many other important issues at digg is absolutely amazing.
Original Description:
Here is the most incisive account on digg’s recent issues on the planet. Thank you, Lance, for your testimony; you are both a scholar and a gentlemen.
It really is funny. The picture, while a little risque, is not porn and actually has some humor to it. Still, this one was mysteriously buried despite showing no buries on Ajaxonomy. It wouldn’t be possible for Digg to manually pull a story down, would it? Either way, here’s the image. Funny, regardless of what Digg might think.
Original Description:
I think I need some extra help on this equation in my pants.
We’re already getting our asses kicked by foreign competition. And, according to this piece, we better get ready for an increase in both number and intensity. These countries may be poorer than us, but they make up for it in entrepreneurial spirit. They’re also more innovative than us, at least in business.
My favorite part:
I like to tell the story of a Chinese manufacturer that was getting feedback about its washing machines’ clogging up drains. The company investigated and found that the machines worked just fine but that rural consumers were using them to wash potatoes. What would an American company do to solve this problem? Call in a p.r. firm to tell consumers that washing vegetables voids their warranty? The Chinese company had a better idea: it added a vegetable-wash cycle to its machines. We call this innovating with ingenuity–and no government program can teach this.
Original Description:
Imagine 100 companies from Former Third World countries with a combined revenue in the trillions of dollars–greater than the total economic output of many countries–competing with U.S. companies for space on the world stage. Imagine several hundred such companies. Now imagine thousands.
There are so many social media sites popping up left and right between Pligg and other ways of building them that it is starting to get hard to keep track of them all. At Social News Watch, we are compiling a list that can be used to make some sense of it all.
Whether you know of some new ones that aren’t listed at all or you know of some lists themselves that can be checked and added to the compilation, let us know. Either post it here or at SNW and we’ll try to put together one complete list.
There are probably a lot of Mac spoofs out there. If you want to send a message of support for something, simply have the opposing argument dress up as a PC and the supported argument dress up as the Mac guy. Simple.
This spoof focuses on Proposition 8 in California, a measure intended to modify the California constitution to disallow same sex marriages by adding a new section that states “only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.”
Of course, then the government will probably need to define the terms “man” and “woman” and any others that come up in the process. Something already done for Race.
Originally submitted to Digg by Toughtech 10-12-2008
Found this one late. It’s really the video that deserves the credit for the front page, but the story about rugged laptops has its merits as well. Check out the video - the story itself isn’t wonderful, but it’s not too bad.
Original Description:
Fast, Tough and damn cheap. Why you should 86 your plastic laptop…
Do you have an eye for content? Do you see things hit the front page of your favourite social media site that shouldn't while you watch great content fall off into oblivion?
We need you for popFAIL. You don't need to be a super-power-mega-user to be able to contribute. You don't have to be on the top 100 list. You just have to recognize good content and post it here.
If you are interested in contributing, you can just sign up and start contributing straight away!
