It's interesting that those in the social media industry believe everything that's occurring with respect to social media is new. As I look back to direct marketing, database marketing, networking and advertising -- I don't believe our goals for businesses were different at all.

Me and my buddies at school take every opportunity we can get to play poker. With us it's all about the game. We are all seriously competitive. If we weren't we probably wouldn't be at Harvard.

Not content with just three trim levels for its 2011 Sorento, Kia has unveiled a new topline SX model for its bestselling vehicle. The SX slots in above the Base, LX, and EX trims with a plethora of unique refinements and features.

Kia's first compact sold in North America looked like a 15-year old Ford Escort. Even as the value-conscious automaker started to improve its quality reputation early in the last decade, Kia's designs were tepid and slightly out-of-date, at best.

How can we recruit even more people to make Wikipedia a richer, deeper learning resource? For one thing, by making it easier to contribute (see our previous announcement). But, we also have to make our readers aware that their help is welcome, and ease them into taking the first steps to improving or creating an article.

Environmentalists were calling Greenpeace's campaign against Nestle a success two weeks ago when it agreed to drop its Indonesian palm oil producer Sinar Mas Group, which is responsible for the destruction of rain forests and orangutan habitats. But it seems success was claimed not only too early, but perhaps a bit inappropriately.

PBS's Tavis Smiley, a disciple of Cornel West and a powerful force for elevating public discourse, has done a tremendous service by framing his second episode of Tavis Smiley Reports around Martin Luther King Jr.'s most controversial speech.

It's that time of year again. Flowers are blooming, birds are singing and the weather is warming up. We are feeling active, it's time to get up and get busy. Spring brings a new energy to most of us, calling us to play. It's the perfect time of year for some spring cleaning.

I hear and read too many debates these days peppered with accusations of socialism, fascism, or other extremism regarding governmental policies. People who have lived in socialist (and fascist) countries (East Germany is a great example) rightfully laugh themselves silly over this ideologically ignorant, partisan-driven American mudslinging. The fact is that these -isms are terms thrown around as scare words.

Since it is April 1, I can't fail to mention one of the best all-time April Fool gags, the BBC's 1957 Panorama broadcast on the spaghetti harvest in the Ticino area of Switzerland, narrated by the very distinguished and golden-voiced Richard Dimbleby, CBE. They reported a bumper crop, owing to the mild winter and the effective control of the pasta weevil.

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