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What Should College Really Be?

Kelly at HackCollege and Richard Millington (a fellow Brazen Careerist) recently wrote their views on what college is and what it should be. Richard says that university should be an incubator for entrepreneurship, a place for students to get practical experience, not theory - simulate the stuff that we are going to do after we [...]

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Interesting Discussions: Why Do We Use Social Networks?

I’ve written about the utility of social networking services like Facebook before, and Chris Brogan offers (yet another) interesting take on why we use them. On a related note, Loic Le Meur Blog had a great story about how our social media maps are becoming more and more fractured and out of our control.
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The Social Networking Utility

Social networking is great, but let’s get to the part when it isn’t…
Chris Brogan has an interesting response to an article in the Economist, where they lament the “walled gardens” that social networks are today, but look forward to the day that those walls come down, like Compuserve’s and AOL’s did in the 90’s. Chris [...]

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Traveling Out of One Backpack

There is some great discussion on Zen Habits (and Lifehacker ) about how to travel lightly, as Leo is preparing to travel overseas. His goal is to travel to Thailand with everything he needs in one backpack. That sounds like something fun that I would like to do at some point in the future, but [...]

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