January 2011
13 posts
How to Express Sympathy to a Friend Grieving the...
How can you comfort someone grieving the death of a loved one? What can you say that might adequately offer solace? “I’m sorry” doesn’t seem to cut it.
So what is the right way to comfort someone who is grieving? Here are some suggestions, culled from grief experts and people who have lost a loved one:
Say something simple. “I am sorry to hear the news”...
Mar Roxas as chief troubleshooter (or trouble...
Speculations are that Mar Roxas maybe more of a “troublemaker than a troubleshooter once he gets a government post in the Aquino administration.”
The Porsche issue: are the criticisms hurled... →
The state of broadband Internet worldwide →
GMANews.TV compiled this interactive head-to-head comparison of Internet broadband speed, penetration, and other metrics from 172 countries around the world. The graphic clearly shows that, in terms of internet broadband download speed alone, the Philippines lags behind roughly two-thirds of the world. The country also has a long way to go in terms of Internet penetration.
Real-Time News Curation, Newsmastering And... →
Real-time news curation, or what I call “newsmastering”, is the art of finding, aggregating, filtering, selecting, curating and republishing high-quality news stories on a very specific theme, topic, or for a particular audience interest, problem, passion.
It grows out of the need to make sense of this very need to filter and make sense of the enormous amount of information that is...
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Is Quora Yet Another Social Network (YASN) or...
Quora has been around for a year and provides an independent question platform from Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn that is similar to Yahoo! Answers. It does heavily rely on Twitter and Facebook for promotion, adding it to the increasing amount of social middleware platforms that are being developed. According to one Quora volunteer, it has grown significantly in the past few weeks, indicating...
Quora Signups Exploded In Late December — Then...
It seems as if most Quora users had seen the massive influx of new friend requests on the service in the past week or so — now you know why. I wondered if it was something Quora changed with regard to autofollowing, so I asked the company. “Nope, we haven’t changed anything recently. There has been a lot of activity and growth the last week especially,” co-founder Charlie Cheever told us last...
The Three C’s of Social Content: Consumption,...
As George Bernard Shaw observed, “Life is not about finding yourself, life is about creating yourself.” Such is true for social networks and the digital persona and resulting experiences we create and cultivate. It was the beginning of the shift in behavior toward an era of digital extroversion, self-defined by varying degrees of sharing, connections, and engagement.
Two and a half years ago,...
Taking a walk can help reduce cravings
If your goal is to break a bad habit or cut back on food and shed a few pounds, then a simple but overlooked trick could come in handy: go for a walk. As far as weight-loss strategies go, it is not the most glamorous, but studies have found that a brisk walk around the block can significantly dampen cravings, whether the urge for junk food or the desire to light up a cigarette
Popularity on Twitter or Facebook Is just that;...
One of the nasty side effects of the rapid growth of social media is that it threatens to warp our understanding of influence. It’s only natural that Twitter has given rise to any number of applications that rank users for various criteria, including their overall influence. Many of the 150 million or so of Twitter accounts contain multitudes: a feed of interests, passions and expertise, in...
How did we all get so darn fat?
The Truth about your weight gain…
Well, the simple answer is that we eat more calories. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that American men eat 7 percent more calories than they did in 1971; American women eat a whopping 18 percent more—an additional 335 calories a day! But the harder question is this: Why do we eat so many more calories? Are we suddenly more...