Thought I’d share my Favorite Tweets of the the Week.
Got the idea from Max Gladwell.
Scobleizer Clearing the air with Twitter: http://tinyurl.com/6y56e4 about 6 hours ago from web
jowyang I spent time with Friendfeed’s founder yesterday. Information important to you and your friends MICRO-meme tracker http://tinyurl.com/5f6×46 about 8 hours ago from web
On Twitter I go by Figmentations; so these next three involve me!
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Not knowing anyone serving in the military, I must admit has made it far too easy to overlook the sacrifices our servicemen and servicewomen are making to serve for our country. What they are going through and coming home to is without-a-doubt underappreciated, unrecognized, and way undersupported.
As with the “Green” movement, sometimes it takes some of us a little longer to be fully aware of the circumstances and effects of what’s going on around us. We get caught up in our own lives and worry about the petty things — definitely petty in the grander scope of life.
So, I wanted to belatedly let you know that for this Memorial Day weekend, I took one small step closer to awareness. And with this step, I hope to make some tiny positive impact on the overseas situation we find ourselves in and feel powerless over.
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A recent newspaper article contained an intriguing combination of words that caught my attention. (See: The Star Ledger, “The Global Monster”, 4/24/08, p10) The phrase was: “a coincidence of interest”. It was used to describe a scenario that arises when an unscrupulous seller is eager to supply whatever a desperate buyer wants to buy.
The context of the article focused on how mobsters or organized crime groups are getting more involved in global markets, immigrant smuggling, and with terrorists, etc. primarily for the purpose of making money in the global marketplace as well as domestically.
My thought is this: what would a “coincidence of interest” look like in the hands of the positively-intentioned world citizens?
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As a continuation from Part 1, here are more notes from the presentations given at the recent Global Green Expo 2008 in Jersey City, NJ.
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