What do people really want to hear about - 9 things

Aspirations and beliefs
David vs Goliath
Avalanche about to roll
Contrasting perspective
Anxieties
Personalities and personal stories
How to stories and advice
Glitz and glam
Seasonal/event related

Lois Kelly is the author of Beyond Buzz: The Next Generation of Word-of-Mouth Marketing

Just joking

Did you know that the ability to understand a joke is one of the signs of being human.
This is why humor, in a way, is a sort of Turing test for humans. One of the surest ways to figure out that someone comes from a totally different background, culture, generation, whatever, is to make a […]

Linux flavours

I was just thinking about the different operating systems that I am using at the moment.

I have a friends laptop at the moment that I have installed Knoppix 5.1. I used this because Ubuntu needed too much RAM. This laptop has only 256 meg of RAM.  I found that Knoppix has given new life to […]

Free language learning

I never ceased to be amazed at the resources that are available on the web. I just came across this one. How to learn a foreign language.

Mango is a great too to be able to pick up some of the basics of a foreign language. Remember those tapes that you could buy years ago. […]