The Internet and Social (Network) Conflict (via Only a Northern Song)

This is a fascinating post about how we treat internet posts differently than traditional writing. I enjoyed it. I hope you do too.

James Pilant

The Egyptians worshiped the open eye because they knew attention was redemptive – if you pay attention to things you can understand them and make things better. This resonates with us – we generally believe that paying conscious attention to things is the best way of achieving an objective grasp, a full understanding of what a thing is from itself, rather than simply from our perspective. We improve on this by establishing perspectives which are, … Read More

via Only a Northern Song

An Invitation To Write

I am not the fount of all wisdom. I am well aware of my limitations and there are a lot of them.

I invite you to submit articles or essays or columns that deal with business ethics. I can’t promise to print all of them. Whether I disagree with them or not is not a factor. I will not put up poorly written, or poorly thought out material. I need to maintain a reputation for a certain level of writing. (You might think reading my work that it isn’t very high!) And of course no obscenities and no use of things like the N word, etc.

If you are interested, send an essay or article or write to just ask if a certain topic would be good choice.

southwerk@yahoo.com

By the way, here are the rules, if I print it, your name in full goes in the title at the top of the page. I will write a brief introduction and say nice things about you, then your words. Your words will be highlighted in darkened lettering so people who read the article will be easily able to discern your thoughts as your thoughts and not mine.

Let me repeat, you can disagree with me. That’s not a factor. Writing quality and offensive content is.

James Pilant