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Urgent: 100+ Orphans Need Your Help

Written by: Bill Sherman on Tuesday, 19 January 2010, 3:00 PM

Instead of talking about social capital and social learning today, I’m going to ask for your help to save the lives of 135 orphaned children (including 26 infants) who may begin to die very soon. While the medical cause of death will be dehydration, the actual cause of death will be death-by-bureaucracy. Over the past five […]

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Two Guys Talk about Bras

Written by: Bill Sherman on Sunday, 17 January 2010, 6:30 PM

On January 6, 2010, unusual status updates started appearing on Facebook. Many women began posting colors and patterns. The Facebook Bra Color meme, which promoted breast cancer awareness, became a one-week wonder across the Internet and in main-stream media. The meme was spread through an e-mail between women, letting the guys puzzle it out. One […]

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The 12th Night Toast for 2010

Written by: Bill Sherman on Wednesday, 6 January 2010, 8:42 PM

For the past twelve years, I’ve made 12th Night the most important holiday on my personal calendar. It’s a night when I raise a glass in toast and remember all of the people who have, in one way or another, touched my life. I spent most of my childhood very sick, and I never thought that […]

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Gossip, Social Capital, and Schadenfreude

Written by: Bill Sherman on Friday, 1 January 2010, 8:50 AM

A friend of mine, Tim Sanders, offers the following insight about gossip: Gossip, especially about personal tragedies, is a social form of pornography. It can only poison your psyche and drag down your spirit. What is “social pornography?” I’m not going to define pornography directly, because it’s a slippery slope. For example, Justice Potter Stewart‘s  maxim […]

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