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Google Hummingbird: Are You Still Playing Russian Roulette with Google? – Copyblogger
However, the funny bit about our endless quest to know how Google ranks pages is that the truth has always been right in front of us: do the hard work of knowing your customer inside and out, establish your authority, and deliver the high-quality content they need.
via Google Hummingbird: Are You Still Playing Russian Roulette with Google? | Copyblogger.
This is a seriously good article. I recommend it highly if you are trying to establish an online brand.
Multitasking Makes Managers Less Thoughtful – Gretchen Gavett – Harvard Business Review
Multitasking Makes Managers Less Thoughtful – Gretchen Gavett – Harvard Business Review.
Link for the source article below.
Why Your Health Insurer Is Reading Your Tweets
Cinnamon Game Harms Players
Calls to the American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC) related to cinnamon increased from 51 in 2011 to 178 calls in the first 6 months of 2012, wrote Steven Lipshultz, MD, of University of Miami’s Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine in Florida, and colleagues, online in a Perspective in Pediatrics.
Of the 178 calls, 122 (69%) were classified as intentional misuse or abuse “consistent with the cinnamon challenge,” the authors wrote, and about (17%) required medical attention.
The challenge requires a person to swallow a tablespoon of the dry, ground spice in 60 seconds without drinking fluids.
The authors pointed to 51,000 YouTube video clips — one viewed 19 million times — as of August 2012 that showed adolescents watching someone coughing and choking as the cinnamon triggers a severe gag reflex. They said the popularity of the Internet coupled with peer pressure instigated too many cinnamon challenges.
via Cinnamon Game Harms Players.
I am so thankful my own children are (mostly) past the stupid stage.
Seth’s Blog: Building your Backlist (and living with it forever)
Your history of work is as important as the work you’ll do tomorrow.
via Seth’s Blog: Building your backlist (and living with it forever).
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
What you post online stays forever.
Think before you post.
If You’re Serious About Ideas, Get Serious About Blogging
Indeed, if you want to shape public opinion, you need to be the one creating the narrative.
via If You’re Serious About Ideas, Get Serious About Blogging – Dorie Clark – Harvard Business Review.
Twitter and Facebook ‘harming children’s development’ – Telegraph
A generation of children risks growing up with obsessive personalities, poor self-control, short attention spans and little empathy because of an addiction to social networking websites such as Twitter, a leading neuroscientist has warned.
Baroness Greenfield quoted figures showing that more than half of 13- to 17-year-olds now spend more than 30 hours a week using video games, computers, e-readers, mobile phones and other screen-based technology. She said the human brain evolved to its surroundings and needed a “stimulating environment” to grow and properly develop. But she warned that a reliance on social networking and increased use of computer games could effectively “rewire” the brain.
via Twitter and Facebook ‘harming children’s development’ – Telegraph.
LinkedIn Confirms Password Leak
LinkedIn confirms password leak, encourages users to update passwords – Tech Talk – CBS News.
Don’t say you weren’t warned.
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