History and My Story

Mary Lou Buell

History of All This…

April 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment

I’m sure you’ve heard of Thomas Friedman and his book The World is Flat  (currently selling in version 3.0).  Here is a lecture he gave at MIT not too long ago about the his groundbreaking work.  The entire lecture is quite long—so if you haven’t got the patience to listen to that much talking over [...]

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Facebook in Reality

March 26th, 2009 · 8 Comments

Just a little Thursday morning humor:

 

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Facebook, Round Three

January 6th, 2009 · 2 Comments

There are some interesting comments about the war on Tzipi Livni’s Facebook page. She is the current Foreign Affairs Minister and frontrunner to be Israel’s next Prime Minister after elections that are supposed to take place next month. Check out “The War” posts under discussion board–the comments are mostly in English compared to the rest [...]

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For Those of You With Facebook (round 2)…

November 19th, 2008 · 3 Comments

And I know first hand that there are several of you (Katie, Michael, Tyler, Jesse) check out the group You know you live(d) and work(ed) in Liberia when…  There are funny stories and pictures on the page.  The reason this is called round 2 is because of a similar post I made last year.  Check [...]

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For Those of You With Facebook…

June 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Wen Jiabao, the Premier of China, has a Facebook page…might be an interesting thing to check out.
Oh, and since I was on Facebook it got me thinking about MySpace and Facebook in China…so I dug around a little. Apparantly they have censored versions that are allowed, but Word Press who runs this site decided [...]

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