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shared by Roger Chen on 15 Oct 08 - Cached

Did you wonder whether our economy had grown a little overly precious? How can we really be producing value if we're all sitting around blogging and Facebook-friending each other?
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1999 the British think-tanker Charles Leadbeater published the book Living on Thin Air. It was both an appealing notion and a scary one: that we no longer have to produce anything but ideas. And that was even before Web 2.0--a platform for everyone to share their ideas, opinions, favorite tunes, and relationship statuses with each other. It was all a lot of fun, but I occasionally wondered whether it was really good for economic productivity.
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it wouldn't be a bad outcome if the current crisis led to a more diligent, industrious economic climate. Chatting and socializing are important things, but they're not the only things.
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But it seems to me that many of the activities, business models, and assumptions behind social media are a bit fluffy, and that fluffiness is going to be difficult to maintain in the post-bubble environment we now find ourselves in.
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Socializing as a distraction has always existed. Though there are more ways to do this now, people still have the ability to recognize that which produces real value in their life, both economically and socially. Balance between these has always been a challenge.
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A few years from now, only the successful, profitable, and useful will survive.
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shared by Roger Chen on 02 Oct 08 - No Cached

shared by Roger Chen on 18 May 08 - Cached

政府对民众的情感不再置若罔闻，它与人民同舟共济，这是因为它认识到，从来就没有什么空洞的“天秩”、“天序”，只有崇德保民，顺应民意，这样的社会才是“与天同德”的社会。勿轻言天谴，也别说天佑，我们所生活的时代，是一个“自助者天助”的时代，是一个信息意味着生命的时代。在这个时代，曾有的绝望，要靠希望——还有信息——来加以拯救。
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shared by Roger Chen on 25 Apr 08 - Cached

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