New Orleans Buried in the flotsam of comments on Facebook’s Zuckerberg and his commitment to transfer potentially $45 billion into an investment vehicle that allowed him to make gifts, political donations, and direct investments or in other words letting him continue to spend his money anyway he pleases, is the continuing fashion of giving as …
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Crowdsourcing versus Philanthropy
New Orleans In the United States, this is supposedly the season for giving. Traditionally that has meant that retail establishments go wild trying to seduce all of us into local stores, big malls, mail order deliveries, and, increasingly, online shopping. On the hope for a generosity “rub off,” the season has also become the …
A Facebook Gift with Ropes Attached
Little Rock You have to give Mark Zuckerberg credit for some things. Without Facebook providing the legitimacy for unparalleled narcissism through the “selfie,” where would the hardcore narcissists be? He also has a flair for publicity and the dramatic, as we are reminded once again. Out in the land of the Lilliputians where most of …