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In the Internet age, it is inevitable that corporations and government agencies will have access to detailed information about people's lives.
I've seen this over and over again: people love it if you step up their experience. No one turns down an upgrade to business class in a plane.
There is a fundamental shift that social media necessitates in business today - the need to transition from 'Me First' to 'We First' thinking.
Consumers around the world are more aware of the multiple global crises we face than ever before, thanks to information found on the Internet.
Curators are great, but they're inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications.
You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a movement and be part of it, and talk about it.
I always feel like I'm missing out on something, that someone is having more fun than I am, so I take measures to make sure that is impossible.
Team Obama is exploiting the power of high government office to intimidate lawful, peaceful contributors who support limited-government causes.
One-way monologues through the Voice of America and Radio Free Asia don't have much street cred with China's Internet generation, to be honest.
Everyone is on Facebook. It is very rare that I can't find a startup. Out of the 72 Y Combinator startups, almost all of them were on Facebook.
The simple act of saying 'thank you' is a demonstration of gratitude in response to an experience that was meaningful to a customer or citizen.
Social media demands a lot of us on top of our already demanding lives. So let's disconnect as we need to and renew our interest and ourselves.
When I go to parties people recognize me and that's another contact, another tool in my bag of tricks. I don't even have a publicist. I work it.
There is a widening gap between the middle-aged-to-older generation, who still read newspapers and watch CCTV news, and the Internet generation.
So as I thought about it, the most important "tool" you can have today in business is insatiable curiosity. The minute you lose it, you're dead.
The genius idea of industrialism was the concept of the Model T: In exchange for something cheap and well-made, we'd forgo unique, lovely design.
Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does catch up.
Facebook is blocked in mainland China, but is used heavily by the rest of the Chinese-speaking world, including Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan.
With the exception of an occasional cocktail party with friends, my holiday entertaining mostly centers around smaller get-togethers with family.
More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work.
I'd never been a tall guy, and the girls I'd dated had all been my height--teenaged girls grow faster than guys, which is a cruel trick of nature.
I can imagine Iceland becoming a good place to run a controversial Web site. But... Iceland may find itself forced to defend controversial speech.
We're going to get the Internet we deserve, and those people who are the most active in shaping the Internet to their liking are going to win out.
What role did the Internet play in the Egyptian Revolution? People will be arguing about the answer to that question for decades if not centuries.
Consumers desiring a better world have already achieved some successes in this regard, helping to transform several industries from the ground up.
Take it from someone who's read the Wikipedia entry: this is how the Ottoman Empire was won: madden horsemen fueled by lethal jet-black coffee-mud.
Maybe when they no longer receive Sierra magazine in their mailboxes, journalists will understand how campaign finance reform abridges free speech.
It is the responsibility of people like me and people who believe in the true Islam to stand up and say, that blasphemy is not punishable by death.
The Olympics brought a lot of development to Beijing, but I don't see that there have been any changes to human rights as a result of the Olympics.
Reddit names are unconnected to real-world identities and it's commonplace for users to create 'throwaway' accounts to reveal sensitive information.
There is no such thing as a 'free' government benefit. Ask small-business owners who are footing skyrocketing bills for bottomless jobless benefits.
Citizens' rights cannot be protected if their digital activities are governed and policed by opaque and publicly unaccountable corporate mechanisms.
Only about 10 percent of India's population uses the web, making it unlikely that Internet freedom will be a decisive ballot-box issue anytime soon.
It's time to take decisive action to stop American and other multinationals from aiding and abetting the wrong side in the global digital arms race.
The early idealists and companies and governments have all assumed that the Internet will bring freedom. Yet China proves that this is not the case.
If I were a single person living in a city, I could support myself, but I probably wouldn't have a blog, because I would have nothing to blog about.
What today's business reality makes clear is that brands cannot survive in a society that is failing economically, socially, ethically, and morally.
The United States is a rogue state violating international law in many, many ways that California wouldn't have to if it seceded and became a nation.
I think the key difference between the web and print medium is, on the web or any digital medium, you're dealing with this added element of behavior.
It is a vast, and pervasive, cognitive mistake to assume that people who agree with you (or disagree) do so on the same criteria that you care about.
The 'Perez' in me was the outsider, the Latino guy, the homosexual, the person who stuck out, and the 'Hilton' referred to Hollywood, the mainstream.
Each of us has a vital role to play in building a world in which the government and technology serve the world's people and not the other way around.
Under the previous regime of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, I was detained. So was my wife, Serkalem Fasil. She gave birth to our son in prison in 2005.
I can't fault [Donald] Trump for firing [Craig] Deare. Then again, I also can't fault Deare for going berserk. Sometimes a marriage just doesn't work.
I'm always worrying: 'Am I spending enough time with my kids? Am I working too hard? Have I scheduled enough playdates this week?' I don't sleep much.
There is a shirt company that is making sensors that go into your clothing. They will watch how you sit, run or ski and give data on that information.
Ben Carson says his flat tax will be around 15 percent. And by God, if he ever shows you the details, you'll see how awesome and deficit-killing it is.
Over the years, I developed a theory about why writers are such procrastinators: We were too good in English class. This sounds crazy, but hear me out.
I love music and I love musicians. I separate them. I'm a big fan of Lily Allen's music, but I'm not a fan of her personality. I differentiate the two.
I think a common misconception about a small town in rural America is that everyone believes the same way, and nothing could be further from the truth.