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The trend in China is toward tighter and tighter control. They are basically improving their censorship mechanisms.
The Chinese government sometimes shuts down the Internet and mobile services in specific areas where unrest occurs.
This is what Steve Jobs understood: Brands are defined not by the best thing on the product but by the worst thing.
Environmentalists hate sprawl - except when it comes to the size of their expansive pet legislation on Capitol Hill.
Like Syria, the government of Bahrain employs aggressive tactics to censor and monitor its people's online activity.
I got lucky because my dad moved us to Silicon Valley before it really was known worldwide as an important tech hub.
One of the greatest challenges companies face in adjusting to the impact of social media, is knowing where to start.
The gay rights activists who yell 'bigot' at those who disagree with them are the Imams of America's cultural ghetto.
I think I sort of have a love/hate relationship with a reputation I have for being the designer who works with grids.
Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history.
People don't know how to reach record labels, and a lot of time labels don't listen to stuff that's sent in randomly.
Once you become known for one thing, it's easy to become known for a second thing, a third thing, and a fourth thing.
I have a few memories of being young here in the United States, but almost no recollections of being young in Vietnam.
Liberals see racism where it doesn't exist, fabricate it when they can't find it and ignore it within their own ranks.
I had brainwashed myself into saying things like, 'If people don't like what I'm writing then they shouldn't read it.'
Digital activism did not spring immaculately out of Twitter and Facebook. It's been going on ever since blogs existed.
Clearly Google is searching for a way to do business in China that avoids them sending someone to jail over an e-mail.
It's amazing when I walk through an expo hall and can't figure out what a company does just by walking past its booth.
As more people use social media to tell the story of the future, the wants and needs of more people will be reflected.
When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.
Of course the system can be changed. Why would I bother spending 14 years of my life blogging if I didn't believe that?
WikiLeaks published the Afghan War Logs and U.S. diplomatic cables stolen from a classified network by an Army private.
China's censorship and propaganda systems may be complex and multilayered, but they are obviously not well coordinated.
People thought I was an idiot, but I saw social networks were going to be more important, and it turned out to be true.
Define what your brand stands for, its core values and tone of voice, and then communicate consistently in those terms.
The new dynamics between brands and consumers, driven by social media, are proving to be a powerful impetus for change.
Republican voters already hated Democrats so much that [Bill] Clinton and [Barack] Obama didn't really have much impact.
During the [Barack] Obama presidency, the Dow doubled in real terms. What's more, its growth has been remarkably steady.
Entrenched customs represent a social equilibrium, and moving away from that equilibrium is difficult to do on your own.
Knowing what I'll write about and what I won't has never really been a problem. I won't write about things that bore me.
As The Pioneer Woman has grown and the revenue has grown, the prizes keep getting better, and that certainly feels good.
We trust things more when they look like they were done for the love of it rather than the sheer commercial value of it.
Highlight just hasn't proven to be very addictive to either me or my friends. We talk about it often. I keep running it.
I was first in line for the iPhone, but I'm not a fanboy of any company - I'm in favor of anything that's best of breed.
Ensure your employees understand what your brand stands for so they can be your first line of word-of-mouth advertising.
The iPhone has completely changed how I interact with information on the go. When I travel I leave the notebook at home.
While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented.
It's much less romantic in that you have to go to www.cia.gov and click "Apply Now." For me it was much more clandestine.
Tolerance is a one-way street in the Age of Obama. 'Choice' is in the eye (and iron fist) of the First Amendment usurper.
Most small-business owners will tell you they don't want Obama 'boosting' them. They just want him to get out of the way.
Insurance firms have always carefully studied real-world data to figure out what, precisely, constitutes a risky activity.
Re-tweeting is a pretty common practice on Twitter, but on an average day, we see maybe one out of 20 posts is a re-tweet.
Talking about 'stopping globalization' is unrealistic - and probably not what anti-globalization protesters actually want.
Even though you may think someone is a douche, you shouldn't mock a victim of violence because that victimizes them again.
The better-informed we are, the more we can do to make sure what's happening is in our interests and is accountable to us.
In America, the economy is simply nowhere near bad enough to serve as the base of any kind of serious political revolution.
We have made it impossible for children to fall very far—and in so doing, we have robbed them of the joys of climbing high.
I'll never take any credit for Lady Gaga or Katy Perry's success. But I knew within a month that Gaga was going to be huge.
I was one of the first to use the online medium as a way to talk about celebrity news in as close to real time as possible.
Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions.