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Gmail: A Trojan Horse for Social Networking? (with a bonus Emerson passage!)

Posted by Jenny Stefanotti on Tuesday, February 9, 2010, In : New Media / Technology 

"A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages.  Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his.  In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this.  They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-natured inflexibilit...

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A Few Thoughts on China, Google, Values, Rights

Posted by Jenny Stefanotti on Saturday, January 23, 2010, In : Human Rights 

In case you missed it, Google's announcement last week marked a real turning point for multinational corporations.  It set precedence for the corporation, representing Western values, standing up to a foreign state.  This value clash involves a plethora of important questions with not so obvious answers.

When localizing a product for a certain country or culture or expanding operations internationally, multinational organizations subject themselves to local jurisdiction and as a consequenc...


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