QUOTE A DAY - June 14, 2012

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We continue quotes from yours truly, culled from the many articles written over the years. You can Google the articles and my name to read the essays should you be interested.

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JA

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*---- Quotes For The Week ----*
We seek frictionless communication because it's more expedient; less threatening to our temperaments and egos. But just as friction is used to sharpen a blade, so it can be used to sharpen one's thinking.
--Jaffer Ali, from 'A Critical Discourse'

The myth of objective journalism has been torn asunder by tens of thousands of citizen journalists who share more with W.E.B DuBois, I.F. Stone and Frederick Douglass than they do with mainstream reporters who feign objectivity.
--Jaffer Ali,from 'Advocacy Journalism - Back to the Future'

A simple business principle suggests that scaling choice before you have figured out how to monetize what you have is a recipe for disaster.
--Jaffer Ali, Entrepreneur, from 'Am I Right'


**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

See at the bottom for the answer

*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
Behavioral Targeting (BT) is the new snake oil, a veritable cure-all for the online marketing industry. There is a difference, however, between BT and 19th-century snake oil; those touting BT actually believe they have a magic elixir while the itinerant salesman in the Conestoga wagon knew full well that he was fleecing the unsuspecting and gullible town folk.
--Jaffer Ali, from 'Behavioral Targeting, the New Snake Oil'

The news media in the US serves a function that is really not discussed in polite conversation. It serves the corporate interests of those who advertise with them.
--Jaffer Ali, from 'Can Mainstream Media Survive?'


MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

ANSWER: Vincent Van Gogh

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