Employers ask job seekers for Facebook passwords (The Age)
This seems completely unnecessarily and inappropriate to me. I don’t buy the “if you have nothing to hide, you shouldn’t have a problem with this” attitude. Do you hand over the keys to your house, show your mobile messages, open your mail, listen to your telephone conversations or voice mail, allow a videocam anywhere in your house? What’s the difference?
What do you think?
http://pureland.blogspot.com/2011/12/slow-advertising-if-you-were-to-pluck.html
How sake brewing is advertised in a Japanese village.
http://snarkmarket.com/2011/7320
“Bless the toolmakers… but I’m worried that everybody wants to be one.” writes Robert Sloan.”
Interesting thoughts about exploring the liberal arts (actually being involved in using the tools) and I think there are valid lessons for other realms too. Not all tools need to scale, and never forget about who uses your tools.
An inspirational lesson of how something that is often seen as a limitation actually becomes an enabler, triggering imagination and exploration of new avenues. This talk by Amy Purdy is from TEDxOrangeCoast. TEDx was created in the spirit of TED‘s mission, “ideas worth spreading.”
Amy Purdy talks about the power of imagination. She explains how our lives are not determined by what happens to us, but by the choices we make. Imagination allows us to break down borders, to move beyond our circumstances, to create and constantly progress.
Amy Purdy has been through hardships that most of us will never face — or can even fathom. But what makes her story so incredible is not that fact that she lived a “normal” childhood and spent her high school years as a passionate artist and snowboarder, then traumatically lost both her legs at age 19, but how she has persevered, taking implausible challenges and rising above them.
Today, Amy is an athlete; currently the top ranked adaptive female snowboarder in the world. Amy also spends a good amount of time helping others; specifically those with physical challenges get involved with snowboarding, skateboarding, wakeboarding and other action sports through the organization she co-founded Adaptive Action Sports. Challenging herself while making a positive impact on the world is a true testament to Amy’s spirit.
http://nathan.torkington.com/blog/2011/11/23/libraries-where-it-all-went-wrong/
“It was my pleasure to address the National and State Librarians of Australasia on the eve of their strategic planning meeting in Auckland at the start of November this year. I have been involved in libraries for a few years now, and am always humbled by the expertise, hard work, and dedication that librarians of all stripes have. Yet it’s no revelation that libraries aren’t the great sources of knowledge and information on the web that they were in the pre-Internet days. I wanted to push on that and challenge the National and State librarians to think better about the Internet.”