Jon Hendren goes over some well-treaded ground in Your Company Sucks At Social Media. It’s a topic that even I’ve chimed in on over and over. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the majority of folks selling you ‘Social Media Marketing’ are hucksters of the highest order, peddling ever changing best practice that bends to the whims of other experts searching for footing on shaky ground. Worth the read.

It’s good to have diversity in thinking and for people to voice their opinions. But at the end of the day, when the military command looks up, it sees us — the minister of defense and the prime minister. When we look up, we see nothing but the sky above us.

Ehud Barak said that. Delightful.

Christopher Hitchens has passed away at the age of 62. Some Hitchens highlights here and here.

In whatever kind of a ‘race’ life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

An amazing life and an amazing mind.

Maciej Ceglowski on the social graph:

Social networks exist to sell you crap. The icky feeling you get when your friend starts to talk to you about Amway, or when you spot someone passing out business cards at a birthday party, is the entire driving force behind a site like Facebook.

Because their collection methods are kind of primitive, these sites have to coax you into doing as much of your social interaction as possible while logged in, so they can see it. It’s as if an ad agency built a nationwide chain of pubs and night clubs in the hopes that people would spend all their time there, rigging the place with microphones and cameras to keep abreast of the latest trends (and staffing it, of course, with that Mormon bartender).

Probably the best thing I’ve read all year on the web.

Local agency Bravo Tango™ is looking for an Interactive Developer. If this kid was looking to join an agency, this is the job he’d want. The usual requirements; HTML, CSS, JS, PHP & MySQL. Awesome opportunity to work with some of the nicest, coolest people I know with business ethics I can get behind. Submissions end on Nov. 20th so get ‘em in there.