Travel, life-improvement, social networks — It’s all there on the web. Here are a few feel-good sites to visit:
Goodreads - A social network for book readers. List your books and review them. See what your friends and others are reading. Look up book reviews from other readers.
Swaptree - Trade books, music, and DVDs with [...]
I have spoken in the past about delegating. It’s becoming a much larger trend, now with services popping up overseas in, where else, India. Blogs and news articles discuss outsourcing your personal tasks. Now companies like Your Man In India, Get Friday, and AskSunday allow you to outsource individual tasks or projects and pay by [...]
What was the fasting rising Google search of 2007? iPhone. Google’s 2007 Year-End Zeitgeist was recently released and showcases the “collective consciousness” of our world and the top newsmakers.
It also clues us into the consciousness of the Presidential campaign:
It’s also been an exciting year for celebrity happenings. February was a spike in Britney Spears searches [...]
The upcoming Presidential election has got some big issues, one of which is America’s health care problem. But Daniel Brook makes a good point in Good Magazine:
“… it’s puzzling that when the presidential candidates talk about their health-care proposals, they only talk about poor kids and Wal-Mart workers. This doesn’t square with my experience of [...]
As we head into the new year, it’s important to look back and see what events occurred that will lead us into future trends. Trendwatching.com has compiled a fantastic report on important consumer trends that will take center stage in 2008.
Items like the iPhone has created a revolution about “status spheres”. It’s all about lifestyle [...]
This is a response to a comment by Kate on my Sexist Products entry. She feels this was my opinion, not surprisingly, after a discussion we had on why women, on average, make 25% less than men (according to a GAO report).
There are many reasons that feminist organizations do not often take into account when [...]
Avast! It be International Talk Like A Pirate Day! So yah scurvy dog, what it to yah? Make yah learnin’s below!
Today was Free Hug Day, as organized through a Facebook event. Location? Everywhere. Number confirmed participants? 879,258.
After posting about this a few days ago, I decided to hang a “FREE HUGS” sign on my cube at work today. I think some people thought I was just silly. I got a few chuckles as people walked [...]
Sometimes, a hug is all we need.
This is what the Free Hugs Campaign is all about. Juan Mann began this amazing cause after he had returned home to Sydney and saw lots of people hugging and being welcomed by their friends or family. He was alone and had no one to smile and hug him, [...]
I’ve never been one to constantly be reading. I know many who can get through a book in a couple of hours and never fall asleep during the read, like I do. The latest books I read have been through referral, and that’s definitely the best way to discover new books. I prefer non-fiction, so [...]
