Once again Bookstacks is partnering up with Virtually Speaking for a non-fiction book discussion. This time we are going to look at the way technology is changing the way people politically active in Taking On the System: Rules for Radical Change in a Digital Era by Markos Moulitsa Zuniga . I watch trends in social media, so I’m interested in Armstrong and Moulitsa’s perspectives of the influence of blogs and other Web 2.0-centric on the current political scene.

The U.S. Marine Corps published an official notice banning social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace on Marine Corps Enterprise Network NIPRNet. The ban was issued this past Monday, and highlights its reason as having too great a risk to communication, operational and personal security. “These internet sites in general are a proven haven for malicious actors and content and are particularly high risk due to information exposure, user-generated content and targeting by adversaries,” reads the order .

“If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around”- J Rohn

Mir wird am Beispiel Musik immer Folgendes klar: Musik ist einer der wichtigsten Bestandteile unserer Kultur, wir hören täglich die neuesten Songs oder alte Klassiker im Radio, über den iPod, bei Last.fm oder versorgen uns mit Downloads von iTunes oder Musicload. Ich glaube, dass sich hier in kürzester Zeit etwas Neues auftun wird. Vorstellbar ist für mich, die Musik nicht mehr auf der Festplatte abzuspeichern, sondern ALWAYS ON zu beziehen.

My good friend and our Chief Technology Officer, Mike Wilson , is one of the smartest people I know. One of the comments he made at a presentation last year is that FedEx should have gotten into the email business long before Yahoo! or Hotmail. His belief is that FedEx should have followed its higher-level purpose—to transfer information with speed and security .

I think it’s extremely vital that you focus and organize your online reading habits. I personally use Google Reader as my aggregator, and I’ve never used anything else so I can’t make recommendations on whether this is the “best,” but I like it. I hear good things from folks who use MyAlltop , too. An aggregator make it so instead of searching for news or visiting a huge array of websites everyday, everything you want to keep up with, for business or fun, is in one, organized place.

by Spike Jope What is the huge data source that we as professional REALTORS use every single day? The MLS, right? The MLS provides us with access to sellers that want to sell ” inventory, sales prices, market times, tax records and so on. So what is the super ninja tool we can use for real estate advertising and to attract buyers to us? Well, in order to do that, we first need to know what it is buyers are looking fo, would you agree? You wont believe it, but there is a BILLION DOLLAR research tool that we can access for absolutely free.

While I’m trawling through slideshare presentations this week I found an interesting presentation by Paul Isakson who presented at Marketing 2.0 Unfiltered a week ago. Not visionary by any means, just a great read for anyone interested in marketing and particularly useful for your clients looking into the future of where they will need to [...]

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An internal memo released yesterday by ESPN outlined a rigid new policy toward the use of social media by its on-air talent and writers. The new guidelines immediately sent shockwaves around the sports world and raised questions about the ownership of one’s personal thoughts and comments and how they can be published — via Twitter, Facebook or apparently any other digital means. How did the news break? On the personal Twitter feed of ESPN NBA analyst Ric Bucher of course.