Too often, help and discussion is targeted only at women. Macho stars like Daniel Craig are held up as the ideal of masculinity. Photograph: Getty Images I still remember, vividly, the time I realised I had an eating disorder. I was in the toilet of an east London beerhouse, whose German speciality is serving giant tankards and portions of meat that look like a whole family of pigs on your table. Realising I couldn’t make myself sick, I had broken down in tears. That’s when it hit me, after a year of my weight rapidly decreasing and erratic behaviour. Collapsing into a ball after going for a run - that was just being naturally tired. Missing out lunch because I knew I'd be eating with ... Continue reading →
Innovation, optimization, best practices, strategize, synergy, facilitate, touch base, low hanging fruit, etc....are all basically pretty useless terms and mainstays on just about everyone's Bullshit Bingo card. Whenever I am in a meeting and hear more than one of these terms used I instinctively and immediately know that the meeting will produce nothing of any real importance. Continue reading →
Egyptians have completed their second day of voting in the historic elections with little reported incidents. Millions voted over two days in the first round of polling, which is expected to elect the country’s first civilian leader after nearly six decades of military backed dictatorship. Egyptians took to Twitter and other social platforms to document the landmark vote, which comes more than a year after a revolution toppled long-time leader Hosni Mubarak. Wall Street Journal Social Media Editor Neal Mann recaps the historic event as it played out on the Web: [View the story "Egyptian Elections" on Storify] Continue reading →
We’ve known Facebook is serious about photos: Heck, it dropped a cool $1 billion on Instagram, the immensely popular mobile photo sharing app. What we didn’t know, however, is that Facebook was essentially building its own version of a stand-alone mobile photo sharing application, ostensibly to compete with Instagram before it took over the mobile photo sharing world completely. How do I know that? Because Facebook will launch the product this afternoon in Apple’s App Store. It’s called Facebook Camera, and it’s essentially Instagram redux. One, it’s a standalone Facebook application, separate from the Facebook app proper, much like the company’s Facebook Messages app. Facebook Photos product manager Dirk Stoop told me in an interview this morning, it’s an instant portal to one of Facebook’s ... Continue reading →
