Thought For  The Day: “HR is nothing less than civil rights and human rights.” If you think that’s nuts, you’ll enjoy today’s article: Accuracy and Trust.  If you think it’s smart, you might like the article anyway.

• Facebook: no longer a walled garden?
  Is Facebook going to evolve into a real platform and let the outside in? Longtime social media critic Jon  Lebkowski thinks so.
• Informing Ourselves To Death
  A speech by one of my heroes, Neil Postman.”Here is what Henry David Thoreau told us: “All our inventions are but improved means to an unimproved end.” Here is what Goethe told us: “One should, each day, try to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it is possible, speak a few reasonable words.” And here is what Socrates told us: “The unexamined life is not worth living.” And here is what the prophet Micah told us: “What does the Lord require of thee but to do justly, and to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God?” And I can tell you — if I had the time (although you all know it well enough) — what Confucius, Isaiah, Jesus, Mohammed, the Buddha, Spinoza and Shakespeare told us. It is all the same: There is no escaping from ourselves. The human dilemma is as it has always been, and we solve nothing fundamental by cloaking ourselves in technological glory.“
• Social Networks & Blogs More Popular than Email (Get a copy of the research)
  • One in every 11 minutes online globally is accounted for by social network and blogging sites.
  • The social network and blogging audience is becoming more diverse in terms of age: the biggest increase in visitors during 2008 to “member community” Web sites globally came from the 35-49 year old age group (+11.3 million).
  • Mobile is playing an increasingly important role in social networking. UK mobile Web users have the greatest propensity to visit a social network through their handset, with 23% (2 million people) doing so, compared with 19% in the US (10.6 million people). These numbers are an increase over last year – up 249% in the UK and 156% in the US.
    
• The 10 Major Newspapers That Will Either Fold or Go Digital Next
• Digging RecruitingBlogs.com v2.08 Is Sourcing Dead?
  220 Comments into the conversation, the topic took a new shape yesterday.

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