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Kris Darlington What •dge? Jesse Kanner http://www.adweek.com/lntemet-week· blog/facebook-moving-toward-ad-network-sure-seems-i t-1'0558 The dark horse product up luck's sleeve setms to be run ning highly targeltd ads on w•J>siles across the internel at large. Wall Street demands consistent and aggressive growth quarter on quarter to keep BUY ratings in tact. There·s only so much ARPU Facebook c.an squeeze from Jody Radzlk Great cover design! their users within Facebook proper. And as you noted, user Eva Jettmar Love the graphic design. Beautiful. acquisition is flattening land churn will start to be a real Rudy De Waete I like it I great read btw! Too many Google issue as users fragment across specialty networks, as you colours on this cover - or is this on purpose? It is actually also note) incredible how a brand can claim that many colours in the If FB can pull off a roal ad network, thoy have a good shot same or 'similar soquonce lat least that's my impression! at eating Into Google's domain and significantly bumping Joshua Emrich I lind it very stupid their overall revenue. Seems quite doable to me. But not guaranteed.
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Andrew J Gray Congratulations to you. Ramona Pringle Yaayy! Wonderful! Congratu Friday 8th of June, 2012 Deborah James Dobbins Congratulations lations :I Doug!! Randolph Nesbitt congrats Dr. Rushkoff! now Mindy Sparango congrats dr 0 do some research - oh. wait. you already do Ricky Watson Congratulations, Dr. Rushkoff! that OD New link shared Britt Eric Phillips Congrats, Dr. Rushkoff. Been fot Scott Lahde congrats! you are way smarter lo'W'1in9 your work since · Media Virus". than I W'j 1QQ S!'£CW. · Z2 • I So I'm trying to understand what the heck JP Douma Congratulations. Say hi to Jules in Ken Applebaum Congratulations. Or. Holland. Rushkoff. :I ., 100'!rtl nk'a. 21 a ~ is up with Montreal - any perspectives? !EW - l•• J Alexei Aitouganov happy independence from Aaron Naparstek Amazing. Congrats. You - As I AH • IB\lfWINfDOtt9lSEXY • .• · 2!G · grad school day! hope you apply to teach at should have worn a powdered wig. JAl"''!ESE & !SO!!l Fnday 8/h ol Jun •• 2011 il.I nyu's draper program now. i hear there's an Paul Turcott Vay!!! JNO L21Q ••• G9¥f GET IT · 24 Cit ,,_,., \C.All) T&. U..Tl opening in 'global histories: that would be so Jen Macintyre Congrats Doug! - • - "511i."f - - t.M~Jc. - cool . 120rrw· 32 • -.~WIJ Rui Guerra Can I come and congratulate u in Stephen Shurtleff Congratulations! That's Utrecht? I Nithi Watanacha great! Sus.an Marcus-Mendoza Congratulations! A 0~ Nadim Boughanmi super congrats Douglas! great accomplishment! It looks like an amaz I The Virtual Revolution The Cost of Free "_" - ·····HQl lllll l Brian Clark Finally Or. Rushkoffl ing ceremony but nothing like my defense at • B4tx ltlfW ••• • ""O*"" t1.)n! Be " K!!'S19 • 2$ 0 EROTIC llf!AZ•l.A'l i like this program by BBC ... You maybe Landa LaMotta Knaack MT & Congrats, Doc· Texas A&M. Not sure that I could have done ~tptelltl •.•• have secret on your tor! Funny, you were on my mind yester that···too scary. Maybe that's why I preferred - • I NEW EUROPEAN >• • · .22. CI tt OIC>$~ ..... day-let's try to talk soon! to be backstage in my SHS Drama Club years. HYCbr~....._ ffl Peter Giblin Congratulations, Or! Rhonda Hughes Dr. Rushkoff, I salute you! EJ e-mail And someone can be spy your secret Barbara von Rechbach Congrats, profossorel Well done! .1.D'LllMl!
Defended my dissertation at this ceremony in an 11th Century ritual at Utrecht University, and am now a PhD. http ://www. rushkoff .com/blog/2012/ 6/30/ d r-d r. html www.rushkoff.com
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Jason Ca gi Thank you Doug. for your contribution to http://www.indiegogo.com/John RossAmerican CiD New link shared - Fr1day6th of July. 2012 ••
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Gregg E Beckett Whal exactly arc you holding? Jared Kaszuba great meme .... thanks Doug. Cecilia Sofia Pego Congratulations!!!!! Dan Levy It looks like you are about to lie down David Powers So how do you get your portrait and be dissected in a surgical gallery. on the v1all? Pamela Rose Vitale Wow far out, good for you Gard Gjesdal Engh Nico :I and quite a wild experience scholar man! Eve Berni Love to you YAYI Ruta Fox Dougie, so proud of you! Doug, much congrats, ESP. For a great artist Douglas Rushkoff Thanks! The thing in my supply!,CVJ and RU! hand is actually the diploma. It's just alter My new CNN opinion piece: Peter K Fallon Congratulations, Douglas. they came back from deliberations and hand· http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/06/ opinion/ rush koff-on line-man itori ng/ Martin Palmer Congratulations. edit to me. My main supervisor is reading a • Mike Plugh Very distinguished. speech he wrote. As for the pictures, those index.html?hpt op t1 Mindy Sparango looks like u r holding a targe are every '"Rector Magnificus.. since like 1100. www.cnn .com stick of dynomite They wrap around the whole room and are http://www.en n.com/20 12/07/06/opi nion/ru shkol f ·ontine-monitoring/ind ex.html?h pt=op_ t 1 Juliana Mitchell I like what Mindy said ...way to very imposing. The guy sitting at the table with A new pan by Internet Service Providers and media giants hopes to combat the illegal downloading shake it up al Utrecht! the white moustache will get aportrait when and sharing of movits and music by monitoring it at the source. Edward Ludvigsen Behind you a wall of distin he retires. The lady in the background with guished scholars. All waiting for the lobster the staff is the Pedel (Beadle!. She comes in, special. bangs on the floor and shouts '"hara est'" Ou Vaughn Yes. it Daniel Schweiger And a minute later, they all Douglas Rushkoff Yeah. lhal would have been when they have to stop asking questions. go a more succinct way of answering the ques· crash on a deserted island through a secret door in the wall and decide. lion! Bernie Lenhoff LOL ...the photo looks like an Al Orensanz Congrats! old Dutch master painting. ,) Joey Anuff Inspiring and excellent achieve· http://www.berdu.com/images/old-mas ment by every measure. like a blast of Mira· ter-drdr.jpg cle·Gro to my torpid grad school ambitions... Claire Roberge Nice! Marilyn Riltner Heller Congratulations. Jen Macintyre That's great Doug! Congrats. Jim van Pamelen Surviving the Oissertation·s Forest Mars Sorry Douglas, I was asking for Inquisition! one more PIXEL of the dissorlation ceremo So proud of you. ny... Congratulations. Darren Sharp Well done Doug! Huge achieve· http://www.youtube.com/v/wOajqW561 KM ment. Aaron Naparstek "We hereby sentence the Jewish heretic.... to death!" Daniel Baxter congrats Doug! Dee Ratterree Terrifically impressed and Im· pressive. Barbara Lilly It's like a Rembrandt painting I love your stance Mara Einstein Congratulations. Doctor! Rawn Shah Congratulations Doug Ann Van Miegem Congratulations, Doc ! Evolutionary Landscapes Congratulations Douglass! Stephen Shurtleff Congratulations again! Konrad Szlendak keep ii up!
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Sam Decker Maybe we start with just pro although I do wish you had gotten specific vis nouncing the bcid grammar. a vis pronouns. especially those which follow Deborah Newman How true. I posted a link the verb (called objective pronouns in the good Thursday 19th of July, 2012 to this HBR article last week entitled "I Won"t old days). If I read another book that says, Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar· hltp:// .. Just call he or 1,- or hear it spoken aloud blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/07/i_wont_hire_peo again, I may implode. And please do NOT get ple_who_use_poo.html me started on apostrophes. Clarity is key, and OD New link shared Rubik Lanchi Dear Rushkoff, It is not just all of these finicky rules contribute to clari- Grammar. Today, capitalism do not need work· ty of meaning and elegance of thought. BTW, ers like was needed after iiww. Capital can not why don't you do an intro course for teachers be employed because low cost of production in programming after school? Just a random, and size of world capital. no longer workers totally unrelated thought. So much for clarity. can produce profit. There is one solution. to Dee Ratterree Although. I must add, many who produce fo r human need.not for profit. are doing the hiring don't have a clue. so bad C·hristian Bauer As a non-native English grammar p~rpetuates. speaker a very stupid question on this gram· Joe Brockhaus Funny you should mention pro... mar issue: Do you realty say "Is Our Children gramming ANO elegance .. since. as a soft learning Enough Grammar to Get Hired?" - I ware engineer, I find 'elegance' to be a pret- would say "Are Our Children learning Enough ty subjective term that often is synonymous Grammar to Get Hired?" :•I with ·neat'. In programming it's also likened Michael P. Gusek Is our children? Is il not "Are to simplicity, but when I think about elegant our children..... ? literature it's often pretty verbose and extrav Justin LaPierre It's a tongue in check hcndlino agant in neatness lot. Poetry can be elegant meant as humor. for sure but then I wouldn't say poetry is very Joe Brockhaus is we not missing the point? clear at all times: much like art. Susan J. Eastman "Even a poorly constructed Landa laMotta Knaack Really. Doug. I can't tweet reflects a poorly constructed thought. .. believe your disrespectin' the youts of today ... That assumes one is actually thinking whnn besides, all's you gots to rememba is to write tweeting or texting. rather than free associat just the way you talkin· so as we down with ing, mind surfing or impulse reacting. Hov1ev that. k? er, I especially appreciate the poinl suggesting Landa La Motta Knaack Have you seen ldioc Yahoo Wins the Web! My new CNN piece: that confusion and ilmbiguity inevitably occurs racy? Lest anyone comment on my above re http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/19 /opinion/rushkoff-yahoo-google/in when we are unclear. mark, I agree with your assessment v1hote· Scott Nicolson i dont sea teh problem. Doctor heartedlly, Doug. And, as a polyglot, grammar dex.html?hpt=op_t1 Rushkawf. Your just to picky. is essential to the communication of every www.cnn.com Jack Tripper "is our"' amazing! language ... hitp://www.cnn.com/2012/07/19/ o pinion/rush kof f-ya hoo-g oog le/ind ex.html ?hpt=op _ t 1 Blair Schulman I believe the forceful nature Douglas Rushkoff says by hiring Google's web visionary, Yahoo is poised to become the dominant web of social media and its need for instantaneous player once again. posting derails proper grammar. I blame MTV. Christian Bauer faJoe: Got the point ... :·I • Dee Ratterree Now I love you more than ever. Scott Lahde woot use it that much ... .I think it's some type of Emily Conrad Thanks for writing about this search thing ...but it's answers aren't accu.. I've been surprised this move has received rate... so I have to double-check on Google and such little attention. other sites... so ... why would I go there in the Elise Willingham Good going Doug ... great first place?.. Overcome that web genius. piece. Michael Crowley In other words, once the Wednesday 22nd of August, 2012 Michael Crowley It's received little iitten goose is cooked .. .it's done. tion... maybe because of this ... I asked my teenage son, "Hey do you know what Yahoo is?" He said, "Not really, because I dont' Mundhir Eltahir
OD New link shared - Tuesday lt1h of August. 2012 Hello Douglas, •• Just a quick message to tell you how fascinated I am with your book. I really enjoyed your 9-min video about your book Life Inc. over on Vimeo. Can't wait to get to read it. ., Thank you!
Mundhir Eltahir '''"'(" You are fascinating! Can't wait to read Life Inc.
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What if blowing your nose with a soft disposable cloth were patented by Kleenex? http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/28/o pinion/rush koff-a pp le-sa msu ng/in dex.htm l www.cnn .com http:l/www.cnn.com/2012/08/28/oplnlon/rushkoft-apple-samsung/index.html Douglas RushkoH says Apple's patent victory over Samsung tails to acknowledge that Apple has creat· ed a digital language now part of our human thinking. and as such fair game for competitors
John Leavitt Thank you! Edward Furey Actually that was a silly com· Marc Canter This patent thing is a harbinger ment. It's probably more likely that the blind for even worse patent driven decisions. I fear masses will prevail and Android will become for our industry. Hopetully people see the true something that geeks tell their children about. nature of Apple • "the world's most valuable We better fight! :I company'" Emmanuel Schanzer ...except that Apple • Leondro Francisco Time to boycott Apple. wasn't assetting a patent on that gesture Everyone, please share this and call for a boy· Peter Kennard Yes· since I work in the tech/ colt! OD NOT BUY APPLE PRODUCTS! design business I have seen land built I so Steve Fowlkes Apples wins and the American many of these things in ·prior art .. that we people suffer for it. ..b - 16 - - 17 - .- . . .,. . ··-- . -"' OCTOBE f~ 2012 • "Facebook wants me to pay to reach you. Otherwise, only about 1Oo/o of readers will actually receive my posts. If you want to find out when I post, you have to 1. Open my page - http://www.facebook.com/rushkoff 2. Click on the gear icon next to the Like button 3. Select "add to the interest lists" Or join Google+ and add Rushkoff to your friends, as I'll be posting there, too. And follow rarushkoff on Twitter, where I'm most likely to post new stuff. ·Plus I have a website! http://rushkoff.com even has an FEBRUARY 2013 RSS feed.'' SEPTEMBER 2012 Wednesday 24th of October. 2012 Tat Mandelbaum commercializing connection. Rawn Shah I feel your pain. I'll keep watch on when will we understand that we can't think Twitter instead in terms of self gain and profit anymoro. we Anthony Danes htlps,//www.youtube.com/wat Wed nesday 12th of September, 20 12 have to make connections work in the favor of ch?v• CNgXkgvLYHM everyone, of the entire system. only this will Anthony Danes Mr Rushkoff this was for you allow us to return to balance. only If we begin Micha Kl ein Shouldn't gel any crazier! On the CD) New link shared to think of ourselves as part of this living sys other hand. .. Take it as a compliment :) Corpo Ezekiel Elmes tem called "humanity" will we bo able to sus r ate pigs always after your money Cyberia is an awesome read, I didn 't realise tain life. love and healing in the world. profits Micha Kl ein Always new ways to broadcast the are an illusory bubble. .let's awaken message too! I'll see you on twitter. Miss you how the global elite were truly at the behest David Swindle I prefer and recommend tho bro! Just reading over our last emails... back of modern cyber counterculture :) RSS feed from website. filed in a googto road· to you soon! Love Rules OK! M< er folder of high priority thinkers. Landa LaMotta Knaack So you're not allowed Saturday 13th of Oc1obtr. 2012 Clay1on S. Fletcher http:l/dangerous any old friends? minds.net/comments/facebook_l_wan Jared Kaszuba .•.. or take your course at t_my_friends_back maybe logic ac.ademy ...... or follow you via Axel Lucavi Lvcero ...In that case.. .. stop using media squatters.... or.... fill in the • Gre!:J Barris FB! dude is just a tool! blanks. By the way cheers from Mexico. and thank you Omorandia Simon Peter Am from africa plz This FRIDAY Bpm Union Hall - Heart Of for au your works Mr. Rushkoff! can you sympLify it to me. Darkness w/ Dave Hill, Roger Hailes, Anthony Danes We should have to pay to read Heather Gold Is this true for regular accounts your post. You are smarter and bolter in· on FB too or just our Pages? Mind Warrior Douglas Rushkoff. Musical formed than me. I thinl I can bench press Rose Mentink You may use my feed for a bit Guest Bruce Hilliger and house band THE more... haha less money than facebook asks;) Pamela Rost Vitale thx for sending this out Jody White Kenyon -Let's awaken- Yes. Let us FORGIVENESS. This is our CMJ show so may I borrow and send the same to my audi awaken and take our power back. it will be packed with excellent music and ence? Erika Pope-Gusev Thank you for letting us know! magik. Barbra Bannon This is awful. Damn fb. • James Meenan .... forget alt this above Tuesday 16th of October. 2012 naz.... act now, and get your own FB VISA or www.cnn.com Mas1efcan::t! h Up;//www.cnn.com/2012/09/12/o pinion/rush koff-i phone-.,, vi or/index. himl ~ hpt=o P.,. t 1 . Douglas Rushkoff says the breathless hype over new IPhone and app developing reminds him of other big tech bubblcs--the dot-com boom. Facebook IPO. Greg Barris 8 Heart Of Darkness is TONIGHT Bpm Marc e. Babej Walt a second - you're saying Shane Michael Milller That organ kick ma ass! that iPhone Sis NOT our Savior? Is that even Mayjoy Bignotia Al abat hi how are you? at Union Hall w/ musical guest Bruce Peter Kennard I always wonder· I still can't allowed? ;-I Hilliger. Dave Hill, Roger Hailes, Aerial East Jakob Steen Madsen Coming back so many send a reference to something 1 find on Net times, makes It seem less serious .. flix. tike a TED video to someone else - an mind warrior Douglas Rushkoff and the Justin Ritchie an appl e product a day keeps ti-social media. FORGIVENESS the depressior1 away plus New Beard play after stick David Cox No the Vox Continental organ Is is so our savior: httpd/www.youlube.com/watch? around. huge night! V•_, TyXAA8Fyl Fnday I 9th of October. 20 I 2 ~STATUS • - 20 - - 21 - Pamela Parker Caird Really insighlfut piece. nate our attitudes and outlooks. With a time· Doug, It seems to me that folks who see evi· binding consciousness, our criteria of vatues, denco of this lnlordependence every day (us and so behaviour, are based on the sludy of ing subways, seeing tots of others walking on human potentialities. not on statistical aver Friday 26th of October, 2012 the streets. living in shared buildings) tend to ages •.. . A functional analysis. free from the be more liberal-leaning, whereas in less pop old mythological and zoological assumptions, ulalion-dense areas (red states). il's easier 10 showed that humans. wllh the mosl highly de keep up this illusion of self-sufficiency. veloped nervous system, are uniquely char· ~STATUS • Eve Berni thanx for sharing.. stay warm. love acttrized by the capacity of an individual or a ~STATUS E.. generation to begin where the former • Nlllo Otlln Very profound conclusions. thanks "Here's where to come join me in Google+ land. I "Urls used to make nice pic lefl off.• .. On this inheronlly human level of for sharing this. You learn the big lessons interdependence time-binding leads inevitably when a crisis hits. tures on FB posts. Now they to feelings of rtsponsibility, duty toward oth imagine they will allow custom URLs at some point. Nan Reed Twiss Great article, Doug. I love ers and lhe fulure, and For now, it's a flashback to my Compuserve days: just come as links. Hmm.... -Those of us needing hetp weren't lazy or therefore ethics, morals. and similar so weak, and those in a position to provide it cio-cultural reactions .... We need not blind https://plus.google.com/u http ://www.webvisionseven were able to do so only by virtue of collec ourselves with the old dogma that "human na tive resources." and '"v1hat we used to call the ture cannot be changed, .. for we find /0/1 09401910966133376584" t.com/new-york/" commons -- the resources and technologies lhol 11 can be changed Iii we know howl. We used by everyone -- are what make individual must begin 10 realize our potentialities as hu· Ben Pich6 Cyberpunk Facebook mas.s-exodus! Jonathan H. Kopp Thal seems like it mighl be a Rushkoff success even possible.'" I'm glad you and your mans. then wt may approach the future wilh issue. I soe pretty pictures above & below your post, and family are okay. some hope •... The evolution of our human i've posted a few today, myselt hmm, indeed. Joe Ballou Awesome article. development may be retarded, but It cannot be Landa LaMotta Knaack Mayb• you need to pay 10 g•l the Travis Barton Another classic artjcle slopped." Bruce I. Kodish Thanks. Am sharing. ~STATUS lhumbnail... - Allred Korzybski, -What I Believe·. 19G8 Leba Haber Loved this, thank you. I'm sharing Jonathan H. Kopp Comes through in beautiful technicolor Warren Blyth uh, so you're saying the commu also. "My first Present Shock talk is booked. on G•, btw nity shouldn't allow individuals to ignore the Margreta Larson rve noticed that too, but it's an intermit· Deb Schultz Douglas--greal poinls ... l've been communal good? http://www.webvisionsevent.com/new-york/" lent problem/bug for me, just the lasl few days, off and on. feeling for a while that this existential me Keep trying until it works right. vs we discussions are exactly that a false di Anthony Danes httpJ/www.youlube.com/walc Douglas Rushkoff Looks like April 3,4.5 if I find Julieta Randall Unless it's "sponsored", FB doesn't give a cholomy ..lhx for stating so well. We noed a h?v=CNg)(kgvLYHM&fealure•plcp a corporate spon$0r. damn anymoh ... -we" lo be fully lunclioning "Mes·· Anthony Danes Inspired by Douglas Rushkoff Rila G Palel Are you going 10 be speaking in Jeff Gates I agree with Margaret Ifs an Intermittent issue. Susan J. Eastman Great for as far as it went. Heather Gold let me know when you head to Detroit at any point'? Mostly, thay come across as those nice links. But every What about consciousness. inter-connocted the Bay once in a while it's just a Link. ness, awareness of the unity. The educational process goes beyond the grid! OD New link shared - Tuesday 6th olNovem/Je1: 2012 • Tuesday 13th of November, 2012 • Laura Caprara Great learning more about you today. You 're fascinating. Can't wait to dive into your book. Heading to DeeTroit. Sorry fl/ miss your lecture. No Hazlenut coffee. ;} OD New link shared - Friday 7th of December. 2012 , Secret long interview about my upcoming book Present Shock Here's what happened to me - and what I thought about in the dark (http://www.amazon.com/Pres during Sandy. ent-Shock-When-Everything Hap http://www.cnn.com/2012/11 /05/o pinion/rush koff-sa ndy-help-electio pens/dp/1591844762) for radio n/index.html 'h pt=h"l_t1 documentary series The Conver www.cnn.com sation http,//www.cnn.com/2012/11 /05/opinion/rushkoff-sondy-help-cleclion/index.hlml ?hpl=hp_ 11 www.findtheconversation.com Douglas Rushkoff says the ideologic divide in U.S. is false: We do not choose between our personal h 11P ,/ /www. I ind I h ec onvo rsa Iion.com/ success and our collective welfare. e pisode-34-doug las-ru s hkoff / Among other things, Douglas Rushkoff is a me Frederick Stark Great insight into the false di Korzybski : A Biography Well-said, Douglas! dia theorist. author, and documentarian. His chotomy of politics and the interdependence Here's something Korzybski said about human books include Life, Inc. and Program or be Pro· of all things interdependence: grammed, while his documentaries include Boo Cook lnteresling lo hear first hand whal ··1 believe lhal our approaches lo the problems Frontline's "The Merchants of Coor and "Digital happens when things start to break down... of humans have been vitiated by primitive Nation ... methods of evaluation which still often domi- Jeff Newell nice one. listened lase night.. - 22 - - 23 - • DECEMBER 2012 Helaine Olen I'll listen sometime this weekend. one's obsolescence), Rushkoff gives readers a healthy dose of perspec Christopher Philip Madden moments of crises; tive, insight, and critical analysis that's sure to get minds spinning and opportunity knocking. tongues wagging. (March 2013) Christopher Philip Madden Holy fuck, Doug, your lunar/circadian rhythm breakdown at 10 minutes Jeff Spencer Out in March? How apt, forcing Dee Ratterree If it were out now it would be in in is fantastic! us to think in kairos·time when we want to Xmas stokings. You had me at Zombies. Rita G Patel Have fun. love that. read it NOW! Andrew Mayer Fantastic! The unified Rushkov· Mark Stahlman "Going meta!" ·· do these guys Alwina Bruzzi The bit about feeling obsolete ian theory.,.) know that ycu are making fun of them? very quickly these days. right on the money. Jeff Newell just ordered a few! http://www.a Can't wait to read it. mazon.com/Present-Shock-When- Everything Ruta Fox dougie. good to see what's new with Happens/dp/1591844762 LtJ Timeline Photos - Tuesday I Ith of December. 2012. you •. Christiano loPriore D u the man Garrett Ross Man. I can get behind olt' Brett Robbins Almost as much as the book I •• look forward to whatever public appearances Dougie! Yeah yay!! Michael Robinson The cover is really great and you'll be making to support it. PLEASE MAKE am excited to read it when it is out. Congrats. SURE THEYREVIOEOTAPEO! pRES EM l Dan Goldman I can't wait to read it. Breit Robbins "In many ways. this was the Jeff Gordinier right on. Doug goal of digital technology- outsourcing our Dan levy that's great! memory was supposed to free us up to focus -"SHOCK Robert Tercek Good review. Sound like a ter· on the present. But we are in danger of squan· - rific read. dering this cognitive surplus on trivia." Amen, - Dee Ratterree VAY! brulhah. - - Douglas Rushkoff Thanks. It's SO hard to actu Beller Listen Nice! I ally sell books these days. Maybe just maybe "oouGLAS this one will break through tho clutter. Andrew J Gray I'll whore this book oul to who· AUSHkDFF ever I can. Looking forward to it. sounds like a great read. My first "starred review" at Publishers Weekly! Wednesday 26th of December. 20 12 Present Shock: ~New link shared CID New link shared - Tuesday 15th of January. 2013 When Everything Happens Now • - Douglas Rushkoff. Current, $25.95 (286p) ISBN 978-1-59184-476-1 PRESENT -" sHOC K Whether or not readers are familiar with the concept of presentism ,.[ ..,. the theory that society is more focused on the immediacy of the mo hit .//.,.,.,.,.., cnn.com/ !013/ 1 ,/oni1 'Jn/rushkolf ment in front of them (actually more specifically on the moment that moocs/index. ml just passed) than the moment before or, perhaps more impor:tantly, t~e Forbes' Anthony Kosner on Present Shock: "If you read one book next www.cnn.com bttpJt-.CM. - 25 - - 24 - ' JANUARY 2013 Jason Thomas Just pre-ordered! flung and busy. but also people who I want to Daniel White Sound like a great way to ap· connect with and be informed by. It is the most Chad W. Post After reading thi s review.March Peter Ras nb •rg proach our fragmented and remixed way of useful tool for that and when someone like seems way way too far away .. • /just saw you on the dutch tv program living. Just preordered ... now I just need to fig you drops off, I would have to work harder to Geral d Zhang-Schmi dt Mhm. Lots of things we ure out how to have you autograph my kindle :I be informed by what you have to offer. Would I are facing • and lots we could and should be 'tegenlicht'. Very interesting! Dmitry Shapiro Can't wait to read i tlll You know about a book or essay or review without handling, crafti ng ... I decided to keep following you. are such a great thinker and communicator. specifically looking for it? probably not. Multi Not sore if you saw. but I am now at Google. ply that by all the various people I have on Fb Would love to do a tech talk I interview w and I would miss out on lots of things. I would E·a you. Ping me my message. Or email dmlt be less in touch with the parts of the world I Saw an interview on Dutch television (Tegenlicht, by VP~O}. Tears in my eyes ryshapirotaGoogle.com have chosen to surround myself with. My hope Matt Clapham Mr Rushkoff, is that you see that as an appropriate net use. when you tell te truth about the ridiculous hu~an relations of today, where Best wishes in any case. people live on the streets while houses are being broken down and people I wrote my very first English paper based on Douglas Rushkoff Thanks for the kind words your article 'iPhone is not our savior"', from on the book. This place • is• a good way to tell are dying of hunger while food is burned somewhere else. Change has to last year. I wanted to thank you for your con a whole lot of my friends what·s going on. That come. It has to stop! Thank you for spreading the word. <3 tinuing insight into technology & the impact it I could only reach five or ten percent of you has on human behavior. without paying, well, I understand that too be· cause facebook wants to make money. But Wednesday 23rd of January. 2013 I look forward to reading your book! then, as a few pointed out, that means see- ing "sponsored" posts by me - ads, which are Sincerely, a different form of communication and have OD New link shared - Sunday 27th of January. 2013 their own biases. I know you clicked like or • Matt Clapham whatever, and that at the time you were willing -. - Matthew Mirapaul Thrilled that you·re leav to receive messages from me. Are you okay ing Facebook. Won't see any more sponsored with me paying to reach you? I suppose, since l inks fr om you. Hooray! the only difference is on my side. But newer Derek Woodgate Pity, I did not buy it before I Facebook policies expose you to being asso - - l eft on this trip to Europe. Good luck. cialed with anything I happen to Like or • in , - -. Craig Kanarick Of course he loved il. It seems some cases - companies that have paid to be tiou6lA 5 exceedingly l ove-able associated with me and then you. I don't feel I RUSHKOFF Geo Geller Why wind Down FB when you can have control over this part, and it feel s inconp wind It up and who kknows surprise yourself - sistent with what I write about it my books. I saul bellow "we are so shock resistant maybe could see using FB as a person, but given FB's the only thing that can touch us is poetry (art)" new promotional policies, I get concerned why wind down fb - is l ike saying ..... Whatev· about having a page like this one where rm 1at ,.,, er it is?? FS is just another language. vehicle basically asking people for Likes which then to communicate or not .. maybe you're over· exposes them to having their name and like whelmed With being overwhelmed or over· ness used in deceptive ways by FB. Yes, we're Forbes's Anthony Kosner loved my upcoming book Prese~t Shock. I'm whelmed with being Underwhelmed or maybe grownups and can deal, but I feel some obligp I'm just wound up :·l food for thought ation to live the example. going to pay for you to get his review (also, so. I can c~ron1cle the re Peter Gerstenzang Congrats Doug. And please Dan Goldman PURCHASED. • sults for a piece I'm working on). Then I'm going to wind down my pres Christie Stringer Christie Stringer here. whats don't go away. We like having you hanging out. up about writing a book. Keep me informed. Richard Pachter I look forward to this! ence here once and for all. More on that, soon. Say hi to Hanna. Betty Ray You could always come back with a Meanwhile: http://www.forbes.com/sites/antho~yko~ner/2012/12/22/ Britt Davis Cannot wait, always appreciate lake name/identity. ,) douglas-rushkoffs-present-shock-the-end-of-t1me-1s-not-the-end-of- Rushkoffs way of discussing things :I Jesse Kanner Fuckbook. You are 100% right. lewis Gannett "Present Shock." insofar as I Get out of here. It erodes your credibility· and the-world/ understand it from this post, is junky gunk and is slowly rew;ring a lot of peopte·s brains. I www.forbes.com gunky junk. Rushkoff doesn't deal with climate joke that FB is a combination of TV. cigarettes http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonyt reader aggregators seem to lose. The infor them? II yes, then check this hot website now. back on my radar screen. I'd say that was r;>ation can all be culled and read, but the no I found mine a few mins ago. It is amazing ... 36 Sy\via Janine Feng Go write your own narra· money well spent. tion that everyone is in a physical place having live. Beauregard Bahnam I think there's a lot to these exchanges with the chosen '"crowd" that https://www.facebook.com/pages/ Edward T Hall Ill Douglas Rushkoff thank this discussion. so I'll try to be concise. My they find in one room or another creates the tlydr/293588690767033?sk=ap you! Always amazing :l Been in touch with earlier comment comparing facebook to the difference of one coffee shop over another. p_208195t02528120 www.thelnl.org friends lately? telephone applies more to an individual's use The toxicity of the comments section of any Christopher Nellzert Looking forward to read rather than a celebrity persona or corpora· corner of the internet is probably nothing new ing it, though oddly the amazon copy is $4 tion's use. Ho,vever. my conceptualization of to anyone who started on usenet and contin more than the pulp copy. the Internet does give those kind of entities a ued along the trajectory of the tools, but I do Shady Backllash The internet is a funny place. valuable place on Facebook enjoy the "level playing field" of a friend ag We've got this guy Matthew Mirapaul Hy- I would not say that Facebook IS the Internet gregator system that connects me to many ing he"s thrilled that he won't see 1ny more (lb could one day be replaced), but I do believe of my favorite thinkers, including Douglas of your sponsored links. Can't he just click fb has an extremely important role in society's Rushkoff. '"liked'" one more time and have it revert to current use of the Internet. I see the Internet Richard Gorelick It's simply not nice to pro ·unlike"? as a kind of alternate universe or perhaps a mote your book and leave. For instance. you Shady Backllash Douglas Rushkoff -- l'm 5th dimension of our world. Individuals and will miss out when I promote my forthcoming •very eager• to leave FB and migrate to a new groups can create numerous personas online book, "Why Can't You Be Nice, Dick?" social networking platform. Tribe.net was my that have completely different intere-sts and Jesse Kanner Douglas - understood about favorite one unlit they imploded lby trying to personalities than what we would encounter wanting to move on. Do you find yourself MySpace the sitel and everyone fled It for FB. in real life. This obviously creates some prob· wanting to fallback on older. more reliable I have not found a social network that comes tems. such as trolling, but others thrive in ~od~l~? or are you driven by new ones? Any close to bringing me the enjoyment or amuse this kind of environment (like this guy: htlp:// 1dent1f1able hybrids? ment of tribe.net sinte. Is there one you'll be www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnQtWNltxnsl. Beauregard Bahnam Someone who says migrating to? With this view of the Internet. Facebook not they're going to stop using facebook in this day Ken Applebaum I've a feeling those sorts of only serves as a telephone, but as a television, and ~ge is_like someone in the 1950s saying picayune considerations. lo say nothing of oth post office, hang out spot, study group, rally they re going to throw away their tolophonc. ers' reactions to lhcm & the whole domino ef ing bullhorn, support group, propaganda ma Douglas Rushkotl Fascinating. Do you seo fect thereof, may be part & parcel of why Doug chine etc. There are other platforms and web· Fac~book. as part of the Internet, or do you ex is withdrawing himself from tho world of so sites that serve these purposes. but with over perience 1t as encompassing the entirety of cial networking, or perhaps merely Faccbook. 1 billion users, Facebook is perhaps the most the web? I see dropping Facebook more like In any event. a distillation of or. Rushkoff's prevalent. dropping a particular thoughts have been and always shalt be ap Within this ecosystem there are diffe rent roles pointment reading. for Individuals {consumers/contributors/pro Jean Ma rie Macaluso A spread from my ducersl and corporations, celebrities. or pub "spetlbook" lic figures tmainly producers\. For example, http:f/www.llickr.com/photos/ladybabyma a celebrity like Lady Gaga, v1ho can get thou· Thursday 14th of February, 2013 ma/8424614908/in/photostream/llghtbox/ sands of comments v1ithin minutes of a post. '"Timeloose" most surely has handlers who maintain her Michael C. Riedlinger t still find It Intriguing Facebook persona. how many people consider sites like Facebook Beauregard Bahnam With all that said, t per OD New link shared an actual place, complaining about the decor. haps tost sight of who I was talking to in my Nick Brands maligning the behavior of other patrons. etc. previous posts.. Usually when I see people greetz from ho/land!! Youre expain thinx on I contend that if we all saw It. and used It as threatening to leave Facebook, it seems to little more than a gussied up communication be some kind of retreat from personal -dra a good way! When your comming to ho/land toot, our frustrations and other psychological ma"' or because of a perceived addiction to to talk about your think?? stresses would be lessened. Facebook. While I recognize people are free Nick Brands Mark Jeffrey I've read every •ingle book you·ve to leave tacebook as they please. if lever en written sir -- att brilliant and engaging. Look counter these types of issues I simply adjust forward to this one. :I my fb use accordingly without fanfare. Monda; 18th off•D u•ry. 2011 Robert Cohen Damn- what a good title. Good However. when speaking with Douglas on ya brotha> :l Rushkoff or his followers, there may be oth Erika Pope-Gusev Sounds great! er reasons for leaving Facebook. Perhaps it is Nitto Ollln t find FB the most useful tool to tar to protest or disconneC"t from facebook's un Nutio ldent !Jdo get what into I get. Not sure I wouldn't miss derlying corporate goals or other privacy con • Hi Douglas, greatly appreciate your vision finding out about things like your book without cerns. To me. these are more understandable digging retulwill provide another way. reasons to Leave Facebook for good. and work. You were broadcasted in a Dutch Nitto Ollin Sorry about that - keyboard froze. I But even with the understanding that Face· documentary called tegenlicht {episode would rather spend time reading than looking . book and other corporations use my informa for the information, good books. etc. so hope "gaten in de markt'' which means "holes in tion to sell things to me and others land per Publishers Weekly and Togather hosting party for Present Shock at there is a way to do that If you leave FB. haps because of that understanding!, Face the market"). I thank you for your contribu Shady Backtlash laMlchaet C. Riedlinger -- book has still allowed me to connect with Oc SXSW. It costs $26, but you get a pre-pub copy of the book, too. 1 think you make an interesting semantic tion towards a world that needs new vision cupy Wall Street and other v1orthwhile move http ://www.togather.com/event/24 7 /rush koff-i n-austi n. html point and, for the most part, I agree. While a ments and like· minded thinkers. In this tase, and change. web URL is not a "place'', it is a "destination" Facebook has provided the opportunity to con· www.togather.com and our language mimics that. With almost nect with one of the most influential thinkers htt~://www.togather.com/evont/247/rushkoll-ln-austin.htm l Thursday 21$1of February. 2013 as many web sites as humans on the plan- of my adult tile. So as for me, I do not yet feel Lct s b~ong Douglas Rushkoff to Austin. Your support makes It happen. so check out the event page to et, branding is everything for a site, and It's th~ need to disconnect from Facebook. And 1le1 p bring Douglas to our town! this branding that locks us into a neuro\ogi· perhaps I'm only arguing against leaving Face cril trance, pointing our browsers towards one book because I'd hate to see you go. URL over another as tho destination where we David Biggavel I saw this product on the Or. Oz Dejl Daniel I saw this product on the Dr. Oz Crystal Reiss Looking forward to seeing you show a few days ago and was amazed at the show a few days ago and was amazed at the will have the "communication" we're seeking. in Sf in April! Don't fall off the radar-- Stay in tam somewhat startled that things like news results. Today is my 8th day being on the pro· results. Today is my 8th day being on the pro readers haven't supplanted social networking. touch with us. gram and I am 1 llbs down!!:l 1 just want oth gram and I am 11lbs down!!:) I just Y1ant oth Mahammed Jamal Want to find online sin ers to know when something works. Good tuck ers to know when something works. Good luck but as a participant In onlinc forums, l realize gles in your area right now? Want to chat with that the visual advantago of reading "back and to you all! 92 to you all! 53 forth" in a lorum has advantages that news· - 29 - - 28 . / FEBRUARY 2013 - Frank Koughan You can't just leave me here! Lanier to the way that the Internet has devel Evaline Meenderink I'll look up your website, oped: very different than what they imagined https,//www.facebook.com/pages/ no problem. Keep up the good work! in the early days. I find the history of computer https,//www.fatebook.com/pages/ aprtc/161228744029431 ?sk:ap- Avraham Weiss thanks. see you later technology and its effect on culture fascinat qwfnrmvmn/3720551362347 41 ?sk•app p_208195102528120 Scott A. Riddle good tuck! ing because so many of these people involved _208195102528120 David Curtis Good luck. Unlike you I don'! are still around! think anyone really cares about using my im Anand Nair Uhh age, name or likeness! Hahaha. :·J Michael Purnel l Those of us who remain lfor Tabique Matevolo I was surprised to see you a little bit tonger. in my case) can direct folks ltJ Time line Photos - Sunday 2dth ol February. 2013 had a lb in the first place. Soon rll do the your way. •• same as you. I like your shirt btw. Damien DeBarra Douglas - are you keeping a Ashlee Lalor :-I presence on G+? David Blair Understandable, but sometimes Christiano LoPriore can i still day dream about you need to stay in the "belly of the beast.· while I use facebook Jonathan H. Kopp Will you continue to use och Gareth Stephens Chill out dude. no one cares er social channels? If so, which ones? what you 'like' or post, say what you want and Anke Humpert totaly understandable! I am be free, don't hid~ in th~ shadows. following you blog now... ;-ll Carola M. Dolci chis page was among my lat Tim Zhukov-Khovanskiy Ooug. Did they give est discoveries. yet one with the most consis you award for being awesome yet? tent content, and wittiest replies ever so far. I ldit Hare! Caperton Wrong move Douglas. We Chink I am going to miss all this. thanks for the need to hear your voice and reason. And orga· presence, as well as for your warning mes nize for change. This tool is good. Instead, you sage. Re the privacy settings, I am pretty un should stay here with us the people and be the sure this can really protect any user, even ad voe.at brilliant activist that you are, the opinion vanced ones, from the innate commercial side leader we love and admire and LIKE. options of FB Matthew H. Owens rm sorry but that's tho Douglas Rushkoff Yeah, G+ seems less like- state of Che world: Che stale of our culture. Oe· ly to use your picture to advertise stuff. Mof'e personalization is the norm. In some ways, important, I don't think if someone "friends"' and it depends very much on how you chose me there it means being put in ads for random to interact with it, or not. Picking up your ball things I may have looked at. Really, rm not y s I'm leaving Facebook myself - largely because th~ value~ and pr~c and going home cause you don't like things saying y'all can't use facebook. I'm just saying ti~e's of the company running this website a~e just too 1ncons1stent with the way they are? That surely won·c make any It's inappropriate for me to use it as a public difference••. figure or author, quite directly inviting people those I've been espousing in my books, particularly Present S~ock. . Romain Bekhai Well it is the right thing to do to expose themselves through their likes. And Companies can misrepresent you based on your "likes", showing you in in order to stay true to yourself. I really con to ldit's point, I'm not leaving "' the people," template doing the same. I've been tryin to and anyone is still totally free to post stuff I've ads for things you may not even know about. keep as much ol my life away lrom facebook written on other websites to the FB website as possible but it's a foolish undertaking and I for people to see it. realize I'm feeding a beast that really embod Douglas Rushkoff ru be posting more about ies some of what I find to be the worst aspects this on CNN.com tomorrow. No chance of of modern society. hiding in the shadows for me! I knov1 no one It feels inappropriate for me to be soliciting likes - and Sophia Mahmoud Thank you for everything! cares what I like or don·t like. But do they care you~ vu~nerabili Hope to be able to continue with you online .•• if their picture is shown endorsing something ty _ particularly when I'm so busy arguing for people to m~1nta1n agency Rushkoff.com? I like? Even if they don't? It's more about what and authority over their digital selves. So I'm no longer going to use Anne De Croix See you along the way so! :I happens to those I'm implicitly inviting to Like Brian Clark See you around town, Oouglas! me here. The fact that most FB users still Face book. Mary Anyzeski Facebook as we know can be don·t even understand this liability is rea,son used for many different things.• What a great enough not to publicly endorse the company way to find old friends, and just have fun com through participation as an author. municating in a completely benign way. I my Junio Rezende I think the biggest downside self, never get poUtical on any level. Never is to lose the chance to reach a broader au I have some readers who very much want to maintain a page for a ·like· anything that isn't totally harmless. dience. But in the end of the day the passive Why, because its no ones business how I feel. kind of information consumption that fb pro Rushkoff community, and I am not going to stop th~m (any more than individuals make the choice in how they us this motes can't really foment true commitment to I'd stop a group creating an anti-Rushkoff community) - but please, medium! For me, it's just lor fun. period!!! the principles that you so faithfully espouses Alwina Bruzzi Doug, I understand, I feel very through your work. I think the people who can proceed on Facebook at your own risk, and with knowledge that you are ambivalent about facebook practically all the really make something out of your insights are not in command of how your name and likeness are used here (much time, the depersonalization effect i& downright those who will get to you and your message anti social, at the same time facebook can bo a anyway, those who don't need a lb shared post less the information collected about you). great tool. I think you should stay too and keep to get to you. Even us. who wilt stay here, how reminding us of what is really going on from much can we do by sharing your ideas? I'm the inside out. very skeptical about the power of simple mes Karol Martesko-Fenster dr. .. post up wcbpago sage delivery through text, specially in our age and direct link for the rss :-1 of massive passive infoJ'mation consumption. I really do appreciate your willingness to find ou~ about what I'm doing, Romain Bekhal' Thal decision must be the re Mathew Amonson Any iPhone rss reader you sult of a very long reflexion. It's such n moral recommend? and encourage you to visit my website or subscribe to my rss feed. ly complicated topic... Douglas Rushkoll Yeah, I should do one big fi the RSS feed. Interesting notion though of Fee Plumley I hear ya. not sure I'm going to nal sponsored post farewell. but it feels weird Londa La Motta Knaack stay In touch with oc· then using your web site as a communic~t i on be around here much longer but it still (just to leave FB while doing one of the worst things casional emails. my friend! salon, providing you allow comments on 1t. So about) assists what I do in a way I can boar you can do here. Turns out sponsored posts do Nicolas Samanlego Kraun ls It wrong ii t like a web of similar web sites. acting as a portal? with. but it gets less bearable all the time. all sorts of things one wouldn't want to be do this post? :-I • Or a regional/local portal similar to FB with hugs til next time x ing if they were playing nice. Richard Pachter Watkin' it like you talk 1t - out alt the BS? Hmmmm. Alwina Bruzzi Well, I am still going to look you Chris Tsakls I've been debating leaving Face cheers. Douglas! up in the bookstore and on the web. :) book too. I know I'm "'supposed" to be on it be- II ' t Robert Lawson It's been interesting to see the Annie Avery thanks for the hea d s·up .. JUS reaction that folks like Rushkoff and Jaron subscribed to the RSS feed for your site - 31 - - 30 - -- FEBRUARY 2013 cause of what I do for a living (radio) but lord Chri stopher Sanger Hanley You can just use it is it a time·suck. And using my name to sell as a contact point and like nothing -- you can stuff I've never even heard of. .. limit data to very little -- the contact network Kevin Kaelin more than once my words were branching structure is still useful. I agree flagged and to some extent deep, it just be· Monday 25th of February, 2013 facebook has some kind of Homeland Secu came erased, I tried to write a book under the rity approach as if Facebook "friends·· were largesr self-publisher and they went bank· defined Terrorists. Google servers and Google rupt, i have no illusions as to the danger of Now type custom designed apps are used by proper societ, something tells me they record i\olike Smith £0 Cover Photos the 16 intelligence agencies including DIA . my words anyways v1hether i am allowed to NGA, NSA , FBI etc for their proprietary Wiki , Douglas, just take pride in doing what right. I like your action. sho\v then or not... the question what is the is lntetlipedia •• and you can't drop out of Google foundationalist premise behind it...... -- and you knov1 google shares public data ! Monday 25th of February. 2013 Kevin Kaelin same old same old? Steven Marshank Move it over to newhive.com Chris Boucher I have to admit it did seem very Zach Verdin and those young folks have de· ironic that I would have Douglas Rushkoff as a signed a far more creative platform vJithout ··Facebook" friend. GD New link shared the privacy invasion. Laurence James Lucas I do have conflicted Bart Nagel I'm waiting for Facebook to mis feelings about using this fb medium, we do represent a version of me that I can assimi need social media but not this centralized late. Adam Stanhope rm looking for.. vard to more controlled monster Laurence James Lucas I should have corpora· from you along the road ahead. tized controlled monster Douglas Rushkoff I'll post a link. Apparently Fred Bushor Neil Postman pretty much cov if I put a link in the post, it goes to a smaller number of people, because Facebook doesn't ered it alt. Jean Baptiste Durand Ho"" is it possible that v1ant people clicking on links external to the Facebook doesn't organise a public debate Facebook website. My own website is http,// about all the issues raised by such people with rushkoff.com I'll put an RSS button up on a well functioning brain leaving or ready to Profile Pictures there. £0 leave for ethical reasons? What sort of compa .. Douglas Rushkoff RSS is http,//feeds.feed· burner.com/douglasrushkotf ny is that? Anybody would listen, think and answer! Douglas Rushkoff Remember, FB is just one Hey Facebook. wake up! v..rebsite. Choosing not to have a place on FB Andrea Marie I give you LIKE for leaving Face for people to "like.. my v1ork and subject them book. funny. Good luck. Doug, see you at your to whatever FB chooses to do through their web page. Greetings from Croatia connection to me is not abandoning the net. Alwina Bruzzi Something I still not quite get networked communication, or even communi· about \vhat happens when I like a page. From cation through FB. In fact. if I think there's re my side I see pages friends of mine like and I ally something going on here that requires my am invited to like those pages as well. People comment, I can create a private account and endorsing the page of someone else's page, I still comment to other people's pages. ~ttp ://www.cnn.com/2013/02/25/opinion/rush koff-why-i m-qu it have no idea how that looks like, I don·t think Phil Healy Godspeed I have ever seen it or maybe I just haven't no t1ng-facebook/i ndex.htm L Al wina Bruzzi I was hoping you would say that. Jack O'Brien His book ·program of Be Pro· ticed. Find me at: Kevin Shi Douglas, quiting after the fact a grammed' gave me the motivation and inspi clear contradiction exists with your book http://rushkoff.com ration I needed to begin programming at 28. seems rather shallow. Nothing but respect for his decision and more http://twitter.com/rush koff over, follov..ring through. I too struggle with Patricia New Sharing http://feeds.feedburner.com/douglasrushkoff Jeff Humphrey loser the way this company is designed. I mean. Barney Oannelke But not before pimping your Douglas Rushkoff at Google+ Where's the human on the other end? And if CNN article and then leaving your page up. there is one, at least make the data transpar· http://linkedin.com/ Worst kind of attention whoring there is. ent. Hmmmm? Wessel Van Rensburg This article argues with www.cnn.com Mikhail Misha Nikitin Facebook gives you ac reference to Oona Haraway that its not really cess to millions of fans, instead of ignoring it, ~~~t{,;;:·~~;~~;:~~ot~~~!~~;{~~~~~~~~~sh~off· whj"im-quitting·facebook/index.html David Jones possible to leave httpd/thesocietypages.org/ why not learn to use it in a manner that lim ' lure that misrepresents his ..lik es· w' tho t hg' s1 e use 1 to be useful. but has lost his trust \vith a fea- cyborgotogy/2012/05/1 Ofsocial -media-you 1 u 1s consent its the sharing/tracking capacity - they have Joined just when the going got good. can-log-off· but-you ·cant-opt-out/ 1000s of settings on th• privAcy page that can Graham Flashner Just for that - I am can Corey Anton are you looking for joiners? Monday 25th of February. 2013 be fine tuned take advantage of their users preferences for Nicholas Galvante VII Thank you. I will book· celling my Friend Request. Maarten van der Meer Hello Douglas, What that purpose. You just have to learn how to Xavier Medina The problem is that if you fol would .from your point of view be a good al mark your Official Website! You must update deal with that. low that logic you should also stop using oth Coercion and Merchants of Cool for this age. tcrn.ative to FB that v.Je could move to save- Bbsr Sahoo After i heard Rihanna lost 10 lbs er web services such as Google. Amazon, Rocco Moffa so today is the day l finally l earn ly without getting into the same situation we ve.ry quick with this diet. J thought i have to try Robert Joseph You Tube, Yahoo and many others that get their have gotten ourselves into \Yith FB? You know what RSS is all about... :·I this one. So it really works guyss !. 1managed income from advertising. and take advantage Sven Svenkilt I'll miss you here, Mr Rushkoff. I don't mind using Twitter. but do mind to ex- • to lose 8 lbs last week. f decided to post here You're not cancelling your FB account any of their users preferences for that purpose. but I agree with you and imagine I shan't be !end to vi~ich people on T\vitter are basically because i wanted to help people who struggle time soon. That much is obvious. You just have to l earn how to deal with that. far behind you. Oh, and I'm very much look· 1ust chatting away, which makes it much hard· with their weight. cyaa ..98 Tom Corrigan Warm smells of calitas. Rising ing for\vard to getting my grubby mitts on your or to really follow the people you wish to fol· book and feeding my hungry thunk muscle: al· up through the air..... lovi. So. from my perspective Twitter is okay https://www.facebook.com/pages/ next to a service like FB. allbeit, without the ways a tasty and fulfilling meal. x nvpufacd/523604611018372?sk=ap· they pull. Hope your still re· Ron Farren Thank You busin~sstricks p_208195102528120 fox Larsen I'll miss you. Hopefully I can get on spo~ding to your final messages! some kind of mailing list to keep up with your David S. Bennahum I love the irony of your Turtl e Like you never saw it coming Douglas cross posting this on your fb wall. We shalt new books. LOL. Clever at\ the same x R Leckey Harri son I'd like your page. but s~c whether this is really a broke back moun Maria Ta On round 1 of the this diet i lost 45lb· what•s the point? However. r tl look up tJ1n 1noment culminating in a "I JUST CAN'T s .. th7n went on maintence for 6 v1eeks and QUIT YOU !" Moment. now 1 am on round 2 v1hich i started a few days - 32 - - 33 - -· David S. Bennahum Oh. It appears Douglas ago and so fari have lost 15 lbs and still going will never read lhls. He. Is. Gone. strong. So finally found something working. I Jen Macintyre Hi Doug! Bye Doug! 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