Noam Chomsky
...what happens from now on depends very much on what people like you are going to do. If you become energized, engaged, involved, active, organized, protesting and so on - OK, there can be more historical changes. If you choose to resign to apathy and obedience, then you get a reconstruction of what happens before. That's the way history works. { Read more }

Seriously: Facebook Site Maintenance?
With Twitter, it's the White Whale when things get overloaded. On Facebook, it's the account temporarily unavailable message. It may be me alone, but over the last few weeks I've seen that message more frequently. But from a

The eReader Extravaganza?
As PC World heralds Barnes and Noble's Nook as a Kindle Killer, I think it's time to write something about the various offerings when it comes to eBook readers. We'll start with the obvious choice. The Barnes and Noble answer to the Kindle is technically sound. It's priced lower than the Kindle as far as most consumers know - what most consumers will not know is that Barnes and Noble isn't paying a commission on their eBook reader whereas Amazon.com is - so on the web, the Kindle will continue to have a heavier marketing presence than the Nook. The big

Social Media and Engagement: Clark Boyd On Podcasting
Clark Boyd's Confessions of a Podcaster is a really worthwhile read for anyone not only interested in social media and traditional media. There's no need for me to go beyond what Clark wrote - he wrote it well enough - but I wanted to toss a few things out there with it. People want engagement, they want to feel involved, they want a conversation. That's the allure of Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites. People are engaged in active discussion instead of waiting for the loudspeakers to blare. And this, believe it or not, remains a bit of a surprise to some

Announcing KnowTnT.com
One of the things I have been constantly wrestling with in KnowProSE.com has been that Trinidad and Tobago posts tend to be 'out of place' in the genres which I normally write. A lot of what I write about here does apply to Trinidad and Tobago, but it isn't specifically for Trinidad and Tobago. When I write something about Trinidad and Tobago here, I imagine many people scratch their heads because they don't l