This Business of Living

I'm excited to start the Oprah & Deepak 21-Day Meditation Challenge, but am wishing for a better mobile experience. @chopracenter

What 58k public Facebook profiles told Cambridge U researchers about the private lives of Americans. #skynetwatch

I guess in N. Texas there are no EASY buttons to be had from @Staples before 12 Noon. Wondering what the old hours were...

Gutsy advice. Let's see if it catches on.

Tweeting from #cloudforce San Fran to join a social campaign around #eprint

Such a simple idea... I just might give up my safety razor for a month and give these guys a shot.

Via  Jeremiah Simmons' (of a Headlong Dive) Daily Details blog.

Call me Ishmael... or at least an admirer of the fearless souls who dare to read Melville's "Moby-Dick"... without a net. The novel damn near broke me in High School. I've not touched it since. Bucket list promise: I will read it for pleasure before I die (gulp). Until then, I'm glad Kurt Andersen and others continue to send back dispatches from the whale hunt.

A few years ago, my mother was on a James Joyce kick. She convinced me to read "The Dubliners", which includes an interesting story called "The Dead." It turns out this short story is one of the author's most celebrated works of fiction. Listen to a lovingly staged reading of the story on "Selected Shorts."

Mike Huckabee as cited in the Nov 13 NY Times Magazine: http://bit.ly/uNa2DR

...Or should I treat the Facebook as merely another distribution channel?

Kristin Frank of MTV Networks says that social media is allowing MTV and VH1 to delight viewers with programming across multiple screens.

Are these guys really back? Inconceivable!

Everyone assumed social games would come to Google+ sometime this year. No one expected it would be within the first two months of the new social network's life, reports VatorNews.com. Who's playing Angry Birds now. Hat tip @scott_e_wright via #LinkedIn

Everyone assumes Google's acquisition of Motorolla Mobility is about competing with Apple for handset / tablet supremacy. The folks at NewTeeVee are agreeing but point out an even more compelling opportunity to reboot the failed GoogleTV with Motor Mobil's settop box division.

Warren Buffet via the Herald Sun

The NYT offers a thoughtful piece on the challenges of being hyper-connected via Twitter, Facebook, foursquare, Google+, etc. through the eyes of a woman who literally setup a brand new life in NYC entirely via Twitter.