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Culture verse Society

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
Philosophy, Politics, sociology | No Comments »

I’m confused and maybe its simply because at a very core level I like to think I’m still a child at heart – but why can people not live peacefully with each other? I realize that the question is very childlike and that the answer is buried in complexities of the billions on billions of [...]

Freedom of the Press in Fledgling Democracies

Friday, April 30th, 2010
Philosophy, Politics | No Comments »

 Freedom of the press consists of three distinct aspects:

the right to seek information and ideas;
the right to receive information and ideas;
the right to impart information and ideas

More fundamental however is the fact that the ability to perceive and communicate information is fundamental to what it means to be human – our competitive advantage which makes [...]

The Politics of Anarchy

Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Philosophy, Politics | No Comments »

Human society is a fickle thing. On the one hand there is the individual’s want to do what they please as they please to do it. On the other is an irrational fear of the unknown and the inability to control external events that occur around us. The conflict between the two drives the need [...]

Use of Avatars and Personal Identity

Monday, February 8th, 2010
Law, Philosophy, Politics | No Comments »

There is currently a few people in this world who seem to feel that they need to establish rules of conducts and norms on the rest of us to the exclusion of the social trends that are going on around them. While I can’t speak to individual cases, it would seem to me that in [...]

Christmas Day Boom-Bust

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
Philosophy, Politics | No Comments »

Having travelled over the Christmas season the biggest thing that I’ve noticed is how terrorism seems to be working far more effectively than what people seem to be giving it credit for. The fact that security has been ‘beefed’ up and there are calls from the White House administration into what the failings of the [...]

B2B vs B2C Social Marketing

Monday, August 31st, 2009
Economics, Philosophy | No Comments »

A question was asked on twitter that I find myself wanting to express an answer two albeit not in 140 characters. The question, or the comment really, was simply this “have fun defining the narrow difference between B2B and B2C social marketing” (@intellagirl, Aug 31, 2009).  To me this question is relatively straight forward.
B2B Social [...]