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Identity is a pretty complex “umbrella” concept that gets tossed around a lot. If you talk to someone in business/marketing, identity covers everything from a company name and logo, to an entire image or perceived set of values in the marketplace.

If you talk to a social scientist, they’ll use identity to describe a person’s expression of their individuality. Indeed, social psychologists will see identity as [...]

After being out for a bit more than a week, I thought I would post a couple of links that caught my eye as I re-opened my computer.

Conspicuous, but not Consuming:  Why Facebook is more important to the environment than solar panels:  This is a pretty optimistic article (which I missed over a month ago) touting the move to online social networking as a fundamental shift in the pattern of [...]

Happy 4th of July weekend to all the US Americanos out there.  Today I’m going fishing…in my Google Feed Reader.

Yes, I felt like a fisherman this morning as I tried to catch some interesting info in the hundreds of blog posts and articles that had somehow piled up–over the last 24 hours.

24 hours?  What is happening?  I have a Google headache now…and I didn’t even open Tweetdeck.  I can’t keep [...]

For Douglas Rushkoff, author of Life, Inc.  How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it Back, a pervasive mindset of “Corporatism” exists in society today.  Rushkoff believes that after generations of Corporate encroachment into the lives of ordinary people, the world has become a corporation, in a sense, and now it is time to take it back.

The Core Problem: After generations of subjugation to corporatism, ordinary people [...]

In Germany, PIGS represent good luck…

A few years back, my often insightful Canadian brother in law made a brilliant observation about Germany and the German language.  He surmised that Germans tend to use the word Schwein (translation: PIG) in a tremendous amount of “off the cuff” slang.  Sometimes, of course, they use the word Sau (translation: um, Sow) instead.

Here are a few [...]