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The Potential of Twitter: Demystifying the value of the mess

So why, why, why do we keep hearing about social media, especially Twitter? Twitter only has 20 million users, which is nothing when compared to MySpace and Facebook, 60+ and 90+ million respectively. Yet we keep hearing about Twitter. Even though its growth has stopped skyrocketing, its usefulness has not. The exact reasons why Twitter [...]

Plastic panic! Avoid, trash, or keep? The plastic truth.

Have you seen the news reports recently? Ever? There is new intensity building over the fear of plastics. It seems the recent surge– we have all had concerns about plastics for a while– is because specific conclusions have been made by the Center for Disease Control (CDC), National Toxicology Program (NTP), and the Canadian government. [...]

I feel like I’m trying to escape

I feel like I’m trying to escape something, but I don’t know what it is. Tonight, I hid under the coffee table. This is the dog’s space. He was very confused. Yet, at the very moment that I was trying to get away, I was trying to get closer to the ground. Are we not [...]

We have the power, the influence, for another way

http://www.storyofstuff.com/ Watch the above video (click the link). Awards won and such, it’s just a god damn good message to hear and internalize. Another Way : 10 Little and Big Things You Can Do 1. Power down! A great deal of the resources we use and the waste we create is in the energy we [...]

“if you want to be looked upon as a professional, dress like one”

Video Thoughts from my supervisor responding via email: “Justin, you brought up some good questions – Attire around here is a bit more casual during the summer than it is during the academic year, but blue jeans are pretty much never acceptable. Things like shorts, halter tops, clothing from other universities or glorifying substance abuse [...]

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Just loved Santigold - Big Mouth http://t.co/KgblEOe6 on @hypem
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Just loved MIA & African Boy - Hu$$eL (An-Ten-Nae's Moomba Crunk ReTrix) http://t.co/z4dnaw9r on @hypem
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@JustinFenwick also, the team behind @translink is an AWESOME example of transit comms done RIGHT.
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@JustinFenwick oh awesome! you should talk to my friends @pre_planner @counti8 and all their transit peeps!
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In the face of a new full-time jorb, I've been diagnosed with "white hipster dreamer problems." (thanks to @greggcostanzo)
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