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Goal for editors & advisor: Define success for those under your leadership as total commitment and effort to the team's welfare. Then show it yourself with your own effort and performance. Most of those you lead will do the same. Those who don't should be encouraged to look for a new team. — John Wooden

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Week 13: More fall fun CLOSED

The Defiant Ones: Here's a great review of a new book from this weekend WSJ. Thing is, this review is also a bit of a bio on the writer. What is your take on this combo review/profile? Does it work? Do the two stories naturally align themselves?

What the Internet Knows About You: A fascinating piece from Newsweek a few weeks back. It's all about what personal information you can find on the web and how, in the future, it might be used against you. Yikes. Do you think this fascination with internet information is a passing trend or do you think this is really the way things will go in the future?
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Eric S said...

The Defiant Ones:
I really enjoyed reading a piece that had both a review of the author and a profile of her new book, "Defiant", telling the story of Louis Zamperini's amazing life. Although I enjoyed the combination, I feel that in most cases it would be difficult in the MA Voice to incorporate this. Rarely, does the author experience the same restrictions, such as Laura having an illness that depletes her energy and forces her to be a prisoner of her own house, and Louis being abused and helpless in a Japanese prison. Both the review and profile of Laura aligned themselves so naturally because of their shared experiences.

What the Internet Knows About You:
This article placed me into reality! I agree with Jessica Bennet that every online action we make these days is being tracked and stored online. For example, if you google search basketball shoes, it is likely that the next website you go on there will be on advertisement trying to sell you basketball shoes. I think it would be horrible for our society to have an online rater of people that companies would use as a device to select and fire employees. It is unfair that an individual would not be able to defend something that is tagged to them on a website like this. If Jessica Bennet had not written in her article that she went to a pot farm in California as a reporter, whoever was looking at this website would have inferred that she is a drug user. The fascination with internet information is a growing problem in our society that we need to deal with immediately.

November 17, 2010 at 7:11 PM

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