Multiple suicides and a threat of mass suicide due to working conditions?
I wonder what the true cost difference would be to make Apple products in the United States or Mexico.
UPDATE: After posting this, I had a long Facebook conversation about this issue with a friend and I am going to turn it into a post in the next couple of days.
Please read it and sign the petition.
Two bills before Congress, known as the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House, would censor the Web and impose harmful regulations on American business. Millions of Internet users and entrepreneurs already oppose SOPA and PIPA.
The Senate will begin voting on January 24th. Please let them know how you feel. Sign this petition urging Congress to vote NO on PIPA and SOPA before it is too late.
Update: Reddit has a very in depth but easy to understand resource about PIPA and SOPA
In a short post titled The media industry would rather litigate than innovate, Scott McLeod pulled a great quote from an article you need to read about the industry’s wrongheaded march to S.O.P.A.
The following screen grabs are from MSNBC's Breaking News Facebook page. Below are two consecutive updates, roughly an hour apart.
In the update above, Pfc should be P.F.C. or PFC. It stands for Private First Class, and it is an official rank. They also repeated the word "should."
Old services meet new media: a tweeting cabbie's growing business
I love seeing people find ways to bring new technology and techniques into old industries. In the end though, it all comes down to serving your customers in the best way you can find.
This guy is working it.
I've been thinking about minimalism a lot lately. Not in the sense of getting rid of all of my stuff, but more in the sense of "how much is enough?
Leo Babauta is a true minimalist, in life philosophy and when it comes to physical possessions.
Dave is a radical minimalist, limiting himself to 100 personal possessions.
I read and enjoy both of them, but I'm thinking more in terms of simplification.
Do I really need over 300 cd's sitting around? They are all on my computer. I never pull them out and read the inserts.
What about the over 100 dvds in our house, taking up space in their large cases? Could we put them in binders, Or maybe even rip them to a large hard drive?
I rarely buy paper books anymore, but I still have many books on shelves. Why?
Just some things I've been thinking about.
Clay Shirky gave this great talk at Web 2.0 Expo NY in 2008. It is still very relevant today.
It's Not Information Overload. It's Filter Failure.
I published a post yesterday explaining how I decide to accept a friend requests on Facebook. Today let's talk about twitter.
2) Do you tweet? Something is fishy if you have a thousand followers, follow two thousand, and only have three tweets. Not following.
Why I didnt follow you on twitter post.ly/4nd3u
— Gary Carpenter (@garycarpenter) January 11, 2012
When I first joined Facebook, I accepted friend requests from just about anyone. I also liked many many fan pages, both of celebrities and companies. My news feed is now insanely hard to follow.
Over the holidays, I will be "unfriending" many people and authors, and "unliking" almost all businesses, nonprofits and celebrity fan pages.
From now on, Facebook is only for people I have met personally, built up relationships with elsewhere online, and a select few people and organizations I haven't personally met, but wich I have some compelling reason to associate with on Facebook.
My apologies if you or your profile or page doesn't fit that criteria. I have enabled subscribers, so if you really want to, you can subscribe to my public posts.
Note to Minors: I volunteer at my church's youth group. I never intentionally send friend requests to teenage girls, weather I know them or not. If I receive a friend request from a young lady that I know, I will usually will accept, but I make sure to friend at least one of their parents, and let them know about the friend request from their daughter.
My next step is to really organize my friends into a couple of lists, and start using them.
