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.
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.
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 don't own any Apple products, and never have, but it is hard to deny the effect that Steve Jobs has had on things I take for granted.
It seems that just about everyone is happy about the D.O.J. moving to block the proposed AT&T buy out of T-Mobile. Has anyone given any consideration to what happens if the merger doesn't go through?
T-Mobile has been a struggling fourth place company for quite a while.
This was posted at Online IT Degree, I found it via Chris Brogan.
It's a large graphic - view it after the break.
WASHINGTON — Contrary to popular belief, technology is not leading to social isolation and Americans who use the Internet and mobile phones have larger and more diverse social networks, according to a new study.
"All the evidence points in one direction," said Keith Hampton, lead author of the report by the Pew Internet and American Life Project released Wednesday. "People's social worlds are enhanced by new communication technologies.
Oh my God, people! Do we really need to send 4.1 billion (yes, that is billion with a "B") text messages a day?! Don't we have more important things we could be doing?[Via All Things Digital: Digital Daily...]