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50 Best Websites 2008
Some are as useful as a GPS device, others aren't that useful but give you something to do when you had nothing planned for the day. Put them all together and they become TIME.com's 2008 picks for the best the Web has to offer.
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I had the craziest New Year night ever!
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Top 10 Places to Stay in Argentina
1. Palacio Duhau - Park Hyatt Buenos Aires
2. Llao Llao Hotel and Resort Bariloche
3. Four Seasons Buenos Aires
4. Alvear Palace Hotel Buenos Aires
5. Estancia Dos Lunas
6. Park Hyatt Mendoza
7. Eolo Patagonia's Spirit
8. Las Balsas
9. Hotel de Montana Rio Hermoso
10. The Cavas Wine Lodge
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Social network friends or social network robots?
If someone gets to 500, they reach for 1,000, then 2,000 and so on. But do they actually make any kind of real connection with these new ‘friends?’ Do they engage in meaningful interactions? Do their thousands of contacts somehow augment their lives? Or do they merely fulfill some vain attempt at being popular, resuscitating high school insecurities and hoping that by hanging out with the so-called ‘Internet elite,’ they will become so themselves?
I think there are various reasons why people continue to focus on quantity over quality, but as we continue to become more wired, does this mentality enhance or detract from our human-ness? Are we evolving or regressing as a result of the endless supply of contacts available via the web? It’s as though we’ve transformed into friend-adding bots scanning profiles for matching keywords and engaging as ubiquitous personas vs. actual living, breathing people.
The Internet is an immensely powerful tool with the tremendous ability to connect people with whom we may never have otherwise met. People that do have the potential to positively impact our lives, but not everyone with whom you come across online will become your friend — or necessarily, should. The same offline rules should apply whereby you spark a connection with someone [through any means -- online, mutual friends, restaurant/bar, etc.] that grows and builds from there. That is merely a launching point, and the accessibility — and abundance – of personal information should not mitigate the path to building a quality relationship. Nor should those interactions be confined only to the cyber realm any more than you’d realistically be able to build — and maintain — deep relationships with thousands of people in the meatspace.
The web tends to create a false sense of intimacy, and when you tweet with someone daily or watch their lives in bite-size snippets in your Facebook home stream, you start to develop an affinity for that person and begin to consider them a friend. But the true barometer is if this is someone with whom you would leave your children or allow to watch your house while you’re away on vacation. I suspect that, in most cases, the answer would be no. So, while it’s possible to build real relationships via the web (and I have done so successfully myself), far too many detract from the true value of social networking when their focus is on the quantity in their network instead of the quality of their interactions.36 days ago | Comment this
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The Radiography
Translation:
Sometimes I love
To talk
To the radiography.
Because
It sees
Through me.
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