Industrial Intellect

Thinking about the business of thinking.

There are more people who think for a living today than ever before; and yet there are remarkably few analytical voices focused on exploring brain work as a business.

Is Facebook a Cult? - ReadWriteWeb 

Marshall Kirkpatrick offers a very interesting question; is Facebook a cult?

He points out some of the relevant similarities, the groupthink, the social isolation from non-facebookers, the use of subtle social pressures to enforce norms.

Definitely meshes with the creepy feeling that facebook gives me; which is why I am a facebook refusenik.

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