If you’re like me, you’ve seen and heard a lot of economist Nouriel Roubini lately. Just in the past couple of weeks, the NYU professor known as Dr. Doom has been interviewed on NPR’s Morning Edition , in the FT , in Der Spiegel , on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher .

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What Exactly is Nouriel Roubini Good For?

The ongoing media and blogospherian outrage about Facebook’s behavior , and purported misbehaviors around the social network’s privacy policies and practices intrigues me. (Disclosure: My brother, Elliot Schrage , is a top Facebook executive; I’ve been an occasional resource for him on these issues)

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Facebook’s Privacy Debate Misses the Point

“Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.” — Stephen Kaggwa Earlier this week I was a guest on Minnesota Public Radio’s morning show discussing “The Gulf Oil Spill and the Blame Game.” The other guest was Alan Webber , ex of HBR , founder of Fast Company , and author of Rules of Thumb: 52 Truths for Winning at Business Without Losing Your Self , and we had a wonderful conversation about the culture of unaccountability that contributed to the ecological disaster we are witnessing in the Gulf, and the blame game that is being played out in the media. One caller raised the fascinating issue of forgiveness, raising the legitimate concern that punishing failures like what happened with BP in the Gulf would lead inevitably to people denying responsibility, blaming others, and seeking to hide their failures

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When Should We Forgive Failure?

I’ll hold my breath for this to last 10 years.  I hope so, but…it’s a business deal with F1.  Ask Indy how that works out. Formula One World Championship Limited and Formula One Administration Limited together, the F1 Commercial Rights Holder and Full Throttle Productions, LP, promoter of the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix™, announce that a historic agreement has been reached for Austin, Texas to serve as the host city of the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix™ for years 2012 through 2021

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Nice: F1 coming to Austin in 2012-2022

(Photo: Peter Dazeley) Do Americans care about fuel economy as oil spills into the Gulf of Mexico and gasoline hovers around $3 a gallon? You bet they do, though they also have a fair number of misconceptions about how to squeeze a few more miles out of every drop. The Consumer Federation of America’s (CFA) most recent survey says that if we had a 50-mile-per-gallon car fleet today, we’d save more oil than the entire proven reserves in the entire Gulf of Mexico.

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Six gas mileage myths

I’m pleased to announce the launch of the Writer’s Success Resource Center , a joint project between Freelance Writing Jobs and PoeWar . The Resource Center, which is sponsored by Demand Studios , features articles, podcasts, webcasts and videos filled with in-depth information to help all freelance writers achieve success. John Hewitt of PoeWar and I will take alternating Mondays for our featured content

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Introducing the Writer’s Success Resource Center

Tamara Hancock is the stay at home mother of 5 children.  She owns and operates her own small business decorating wedding cakes, creates freelance websites, is an author, and a Virtual Administrative Manager.  She is also the founder of www.wahpm.com – a website and newsletter geared towards support and

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Radio guest this Friday is the hilarious Tamara Hancock of WAHPM.com

Google is at it again. After dominating the search world, and making a play to dominate the mobile advertising world , now they are inviting themselves into your living room with a new product called Google TV .  It is a joint effort with Sony, and it is supposed to be way better than WebTV (remember that?).

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Google TV: Coming To Your Living Room

The Supreme Court today issued a judicial smackdown to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, unanimously reversing its decision in Lewis v.

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Supreme Court: Disparate Impact Plaintiffs Can Sue Based on the Application of the Discriminatory Practice

(Photo: Getty Images) Wasabi, the fiery sushi condiment has been shown to have an assortment of healing benefits. This member of the cabbage family can do everything from help reduce the growth of bacteria that causes cavities, increase circulation, and promote oxygenation of the cellular tissue when topically taken to help you get over a hangover , plump a sexy pout when applied to women’s lips, and act as an aphrodisiac when consumed by men! Historically, the potent plant was prided for its antimicrobial properties and used by Japanese natives to protect from food poisoning

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Rub wasabi on your skin for good health

Last week , I told a story about how Brian lured me down to Texas, loaded me up with tequila, and convinced me to become a walking endorsement.

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Johnny’s Copyblogger Wrap-Up: Week of May 17, 2010

Imagine this. Your parents, your cousins and everyone else in the family is active on Facebook but for your grandparents who either don’t use a computer yet or find Facebook too confusing and therefore stay away from it.

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Send your Facebook Updates to Grandma via Post

If are looking for tips to improve the visibility of your website in Google search, or if you need answers to some common SEO related problems, here’s an interview with the Google search quality team that you will definitely find useful.

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Google Experts Answer your SEO Questions

One of the most frequent objections to renewable energy systems is that their production is too variable. But technologies continue to be developed that will allow storage of power generated from wind, solar, and other intermittent renewable sources.

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Gravel batteries offer a solution for renewable energy storage

Power generation from waves continues to develop as Aquamarine Power has unveiled its new, second-generation Oyster 2 wave power generator. According to the company, “The new 800kW device will measure 26 metres by 16 metres and will deliver 250 per cent more power than the original Oyster 1 which was successfully deployed at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney last summer.” A test installation is planned for 2011 and will use three wave devices connected to a single power generation station to produce 2.4 megawatts of electricity. Like the Pelamis wave generator (now, sadly, sitting on the shore for lack of maintenance funds), the Oyster rides on the surface to harness wave power.

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Oyster offshore wave generator is 2.5x better than predecessor

Canadian telecom giant TELUS recently commissioned a survey targeted at over 1000+ employees to study their opinions and attitudes on flexible work .

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Confirmed: Employees Are Productive When Working From Home

The Federal Trade Commission wants to make sure the public knows an important truth: if you photocopy your butt on a modern copier, it’s probably still there, safe on the copier’s hard drive. It exists there along with medical forms, financial documents, and that list of gang members your police department was just about to arrest. CBS News did a story last month on secrets kept by digital copiers.

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That old copier still holds a picture of your backside

At Google I/O in San Francisco, Google’s Vic Gundotra unveils a new royalty-free video format called WebM. Google has partnered with software developers Mozilla and Opera to support the encoding technology in their browsers. The format is based on t