http://www.elroyjetson.org Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:21:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Twitter is the buzz of the town. It would be hard for someone not to have heard of Twitter unless they live under a rock. The stunning Twitter growth has Facebook clearly worried. This competition has been a good thing for consumers. It has pushed Facebook to open ... http://www.elroyjetson.org/2009/04/28/facebook-needs-to-contextualize/ Four U.S. presidents have had a hand in taking a bad situation in Somalia and figuring out a way of making it worse. Now Somalia is in the news again, this time a young man (between the age of 15 and 26) who without a doubt was involved in what here ... http://www.elroyjetson.org/2009/04/21/can-bad-us-africa-policies-get-worse/ While we won't cover any scripts in this tip, it's important that you install the FireFox addon Greasemonkey. Greasemonkey is an addon that allows you to install small scripts that can run against designated web sites allowing you to manipulate their behavior. A large number of scripts have ... http://www.elroyjetson.org/2009/04/02/tip-3-greasemonkey/ At this point I assume you have read Tip# 1 and have Firefox installed and are now ready to surf the web. This next tip is going to save you a ton of time just getting to things, but first lets discuss the elephant in the room Google. Google started ... http://www.elroyjetson.org/2009/03/25/tip-2-google-and-the-toolbar/ Have you ever got out of bed dreading the 500 emails that are awaiting you in your inbox? Ever wonder how some people always seem on top of the latest information in your field with little to no effort? Of course you have and this problem is only ... http://www.elroyjetson.org/2009/03/24/working-effectively-in-the-digital-age/ Is the current global financial crisis real or has instant access to information just have us thinking like adolescents? Listening to the pundits on talk about “toxic assets” this morning on the way to work got me thinking that the current recession is more likely a function of how we process ... http://www.elroyjetson.org/2009/03/20/is-the-financial-crisis-real/ http://www.elroyjetson.org/2009/03/06/digital-natives-challenging-the-popular-view/ A better title might be should poverty be relative to the cost of living? Poverty is something that is often overlooked in today's age of the "Haves" and the "Have Mores" as  Dalton Conely would call them.  But the startling fact is that 58.5% of Americans will spend time in poverty ... http://www.elroyjetson.org/2009/02/10/relative-poverty/ The New York Times is reporting today that the number of recipients is at a 40 year low despite high unemployment.  They report that Michigan, where unemployment far surpasses the national average, is having a 13 percent drop in their welfare rolls.  This begs the question, how are these people ... http://www.elroyjetson.org/2009/02/02/when-the-safety-net-is-broken/ In honor of the rumored Kindle 2 from Amazon, here is my bookshelf. http://www.elroyjetson.org/2009/01/31/my-bookshelf/