"collaboration is a core discipline of innovation" says @tweh at #sm25 conference (cc @IBMResearch ) http://t.co/hTWFGehT Continue reading →

Therapists say "stop whining about your problems." Elizabeth Bernstein on Lunch Break looks at why we are whining more these days and the need to cut it out. Sharon Rosenblatt was talking to her therapist fast and furiously about her dating life, when the woman suddenly interrupted her. "Haven't we heard this before?" the therapist asked. Was Ms. Rosenblatt offended? Not at all. The 23-year-old, who works in business development for an information technology company, says she specifically sought out a tough-love therapist after graduating from college and moving to Silver Spring, Md., two years ago. 'No more complaints. I don't want to hear about this one more day.' —DOUGLAS MAXWELL, New York "When there's unconditional love from my therapist, I'm not inclined to change," ... Continue reading →

The Atlantic disregards SEO as more traffic comes from social by Steve Myers Published May 10, 2012 5:39 pm Mashable Lauren Indvik reports that people at The Atlantic’s websites have stopped thinking about SEO so they can focus on getting stories to take off on social networks. “Sixteen months ago we received the same number of monthly referrals from search as social. Now 40% of traffic comes from social media,” Scott Havens, senior vice president of finance and digital operations at The Atlantic Media Company, tells her. Now that Google displays relevant results shared by users’ friends, social is becoming more important even among people who are searching. ”Social media is becoming an engine that drives more than just Facebook and Twitter’s own referrals,” wrote ... Continue reading →

Gay rights in the US, state by state Gay rights laws in America have evolved to allow — but in some cases ban — rights for gay, lesbian and transgender people on a range of issues, including marriage, hospital visitation, adoption, housing, employment and school bullying. The handling of gay rights issues vary by state and follow trends by region. Continue reading →

Enlarge Spencer Platt/Getty Images Standing with a character from his book Where the Wild Things Are, author and illustrator Maurice Sendak speaks with the media Jan. 11, 2002, at the Children's Museum of Manhattan in New York City. Sendak died in Danbury, Conn., on Tuesday. He was 83. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Standing with a character from his book Where the Wild Things Are, author and illustrator Maurice Sendak speaks with the media Jan. 11, 2002, at the Children's Museum of Manhattan in New York City. Sendak died in Danbury, Conn., on Tuesday. He was 83. Maurice Sendak, the children's book author and illustrator who saw the sometimes-dark side of childhood in books like "Where the Wild Things Are" and "In the Night Kitchen," died early ... Continue reading →

Amy O'Leary, a news editor and multimedia producer for The New York Times, presents the final keynote address of the Narrative Arc conference. Her presentation, Beyond the 'Like' Button: Digitally Addictive Storytelling and the Brain, discusses the brain and its relationship to immediate news. As a writer who crafts the online narrative of a story at the time the idea is conceived, she is uniquely skilled to speak to the power of social media in the news.Hosted by College of Communication on March 23-25, 2012. Continue reading →