Facebook hype will fade

"Unlike a public offering of shares, this private offering to Goldman's clients doesn't obligate Facebook to come clean on its real profits. It doesn't have to submit to standard accounting practice, or indicate how well it's really doing or isn't doing. It gets to remain in the safe cloud of hype that protects all such [...]

Facebook is not worth $33,000,000,000

No outrageous profits after seven years and half a billion users. VISIT LINK: Facebook is not worth $33,000,000,000 (tags: business economics facebook opinion socialnetworking social startup ipo value …)

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales thinks quality has no value

"Those words could stand alone as a monument to Wales’ wrongness – a warning for future generations on why we must never heed the advice of a man who calls himself ‘Jimbo’. But the very fact that Wales was invited to opine about the future of news at a major conference despite having no identifiable [...]

Umberto Eco – Eternal Fascism: 14 Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt

Umberto Eco – Eternal Fascism: 14 Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt In spite of some fuzziness regarding the difference between various historical forms of fascism, I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism. These features cannot be [...]

So Good

So Good So Good isn’t your typical food blog. It’s also a humor blog that takes a keen interest in observing how food companies market and advertise their products while offering up intriguing food-based Would You Rather? questions. (tags: blog blogs food marketing humor advertising pictures article recipes Cooking foodblog opinion fun funny …)