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Quick thoughts from Day 1 of IWNY

by Farrah Bostic June 7, 2010 media

I’ll add the links later since i’m posting from that non content creation device known as the iPad. Attended the Yahoo! Provoke Summit on day 1 of Internet Week here at HQ. Highlights: Today Ze Frank wondered why the Internet has fallen prey to that most insidious of plagues, the cult of the young. The [...]

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maybe liars just get better press

by Farrah Bostic May 13, 2010 leadership

It’s not the first time we’ve read this story, but the Wall Street Journal decided to round it up for us again: [T]o lie you also have to keep the truth in mind, which involves multiple brain processes, such as integrating several sources of information and manipulating that information, according to Shawn Christ, a neuropsychologist [...]

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if you didn’t read this, do

by Farrah Bostic April 17, 2010 innovation

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/04/apple-goes-where-the-portals-failed-its-the-hardware-stupid/ here are the coupla bits i liked. i’ll think more about it eventually and say a few words. or i’ll let them speak for themselves. why not? laissez-faire. that’s me. this is why consuming media matters, too: The iPhone and probably the iPad are the first devices that truly solve this fundamental problem of [...]

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You say fantasy, I say Saturday.

by Farrah Bostic March 28, 2010 images

Ok, so this has been going around the interdome. I have this to say: uh-huh. Also, here’s my favorite bit: There is — Julie Klausner addressed this recently, in her book — a persistent fantasy, among a certain variety of dude, that someday they will meet the most beautiful woman in the entire world and [...]

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we all have the technology to be famous

by Farrah Bostic March 17, 2010 leadership

About a month ago I posted the piece that follows on another blog.  Yesterday, a BBC Radio producer posted a comment inviting me to come on World Have Your Say yesterday with Clay Shirky.  I haven’t been on the radio since college, so this was definitely a little nerve-wracking, but also a load of fun. [...]

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