“Involved heavily in technology, Nemeth runs a new company called Smart Meeting Design and admits to having a penchant for communication and hooking up compatible communication and technology models. ‘I like to think about blogs as being a new type of conversation,’ Nemeth said.”

Wow. I said that?

The irony is, it’s attributed to Greg Nemeth. My father is a faternal twin, his brother’s name? Greg. Did I mention my Dad’s name is George too?

I wouldn’t worry about what Cool Cleveland is distributing. I’d worry about what my wife and I saw on the CNN ticker. Way to go, (Cleveland) Ohio.

Heat fresh water over an open campfire. Add one fist-full of coffee for each cup of water. Bring to a boil and then add a splash of cold water to settle the grounds. There is no such thing as strong coffee, only weak people.“

Fortune elloquently reminds us coffee consumers that we’re still being screwed:

“illustrating the article is a crucial breakdown of where the coffee dollar goes (actually, the coffee US$3.75!), provided by my dear friends at the scaa.

you get the US$0.03 for the farmer; the US$0.18 for the roasters & importers; the US$0.07 for the paper cup; the US$0.40 for milk (more on that in a second!); the US$2.82 for rent, marketing, labor, investment costs; the US$0.25 for coffeeshop owner profit. but what they leave out is a crucial component: sugar.

it is that omission that lies at the heart of the article — and the industry’s — total oversight of the big picture. i love the coffee industry. but despite being the world’s second most widely traded commodity, coffee people just don’t seem to see the dead horse on the table.

that cup of coffee: coffee, milk, sugar, which is how most people drink it. . . think carefully dear readers and you will see how it is actually the signal marker for the nation’s whole agricultural policy! and how it is balanced to rip off consumers, the ‘third-world,’ and the coffee industry itself.”

Something to think about:

Social capital, or aggregate (connected) reputation, is a form of credit. Some formal transactions can be supported by social capital. Informal transactions are rarely underpinned by financial credit or legal agreement and instead rely entirely social capital. We all have our internal calculators keeping tacit track of who is wronging and righting, the health of the relationships and adjusting our actuarial tables according to experience.”

Thanks, Tim. I appreciate your vote of confidence:

“In researching the social software space I found that I had to get in up to my elbows. First I contacted trusted friend and advisor George Nemeth and then sat down with equally trusted Valdis Krebs (a guru in the social network space) to get the 100k view.

Then, I actually started using Ryze (I had set myself up on LinkedIn and found myself wanting more).

Ryze is surprisingly interesting. I think the idea of having networks for people that share at least a common interest, outside of I want to meet other people, lends itself to better introductions. By taking a ’saw your post on xyz and share your position.’ lends itself to stronger possibilities of interaction than ’saw you work for such and such and you know so and so who is six friends away from me … so, you wanna be friends?’

danah boyd seems to get it right… get in there and USE it before you comment on it. I wish more ‘traditional’ journalists would do the same.”

Here’s an appropriate quote:

“I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cut-throat, competitive world in which I spent my life.” - Anthony Perkins, 1932 - 1992

Interesting to see these two stories on the same page. What do you think the correlation is

Over half of U.S. high school kids don�t know who the Allies fought in WWII. Allies? Huh? 18% think the Allies included the Germans. Bruce Cole sounds an alarm…

and

An IT engineer in India might as well be in the next cubicle, and he may soon be. The U.S. will need Indian brainpower as baby boomers retire…

I wonder if an IT engineer in India know who are allies were in WWII? I’m sure they need to learn it as part of their citizen test.