Category Archives: books/articles/magazines
- the new influencers
Currently reading The New Influencers: a marketer’s guide to the new social media, by Paul Gillin. Having new influencers definitely changes how we do our marketing and advertising. While the ‘wisdom of the crowds’ helps people make better decisions, they sometimes make ‘colossal’ mistakes as well. Gillin focuses mostly on blogging and bloggers as opposed [...]
- dehumanized: death by math and science?
What a fantastic essay in Harper’s magazine’s September 09 issue! The essay is entitled Dehumanized: when math and science rule the school written by Mark Slouka. Slouka questions the emphasis put in schools and in education on math and the sciences at the expense of the humanities. He wonders why every success is viewed from [...]
