Ted Ritzer: Gaeaidealogideas for a better planetnixMoneyMachine-Sticking it to the Status Quo!- January 6, 2004 nixMoneyMachine-sticking it to the status quo! this new category, came about as a direct result of my disgust with a recent headline about Microsoft releasing a product which has been called an iPod Killer! Fuck it, I have had with this kind of BS, where monopolies that don't have an innovative fiber in their being, watch the market and wade in after an innovator like Apple creates it out of nothing, and then ends up losing it, just because of the monoolie's sheer size and money..http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/gaeaidealog/2004/01/06.html#a3840 (Untitled)- January 6, 2004 Mexico Breaks Ground on Sustainable Tourist Destination GreenBiz News Centerhttp://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/gaeaidealog/2004/01/06.html#a3832 (Untitled)- January 6, 2004 Smiling makes you happy. An interesting theory that facial expressions affect blood-flow to the brain and are not just results of emotions. The assertion is that these blood-flows affect our emotions. So SMILE! :-) Zajonc, R. B., Emotion and Facial Efference: A Theory Reclaimed, Scince, 1985, 288, 15-2 He also asserted that elation follows the smile, not the opposite. The blood flow changes caused by contracting the facial muscles in the smile alter cerebral blood flow and cause an emotional..http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/gaeaidealog/2004/01/06.html#a3829 (Untitled)- January 6, 2004 I gotta say that this title, about a Microsoft iPod Killer for me is depressing, in that wherever there is a market created by a true innovator like Apple, that Microsoft is able to through its sheer size and market dominance, steal that market away from the ture innovator! Think Mac vs Windows, think Internet browser, Mosaic then Netscape. The only ray of hope I can see on the horizon is Open Source Business Models, that create new opportunities for innovators! Microsoft's iPod-Killer:...http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/gaeaidealog/2004/01/06.html#a3827 (Untitled)- January 6, 2004 ListenIllinois Goes Live!. Thank heavens I can finally announce it! As many of you know, I've been trying to get a group purchase of Audible content for my libraries for more than two years, and I am thrilled to finally be able to say it has happened! It's been a difficult road to get it off the ground, but we leap-frogged many of the normal startup problems we would have faced thanks to the fine folks at the NOLA Regional Library System in Ohio. NOLA has been running the original Audible...http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/gaeaidealog/2004/01/06.html#a3824 (Untitled)- January 6, 2004 Audubon International Certifies First Eco-Friendly Community Developments GreenBiz News Centerhttp://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/gaeaidealog/2004/01/06.html#a3814 |