Remarkable Reading

In the world of Internet noise where 165,577,218 blogs exist (as of today, according to BlogPulse), plus news sites, websites, Facebook, and Google+, news and interesting information magnify daily. No one can get to it all, me included and I live online.

But, in the midst of all of the noise, certain content gets my attention every week. I'll periodically share with you what I'm reading that's worth reading. Take a look on weekends.

What Got My Attention This Week

• This is really fun. In an excerpt from his new book about the early days of Google, Douglas Edwards says that Google got to him. He says, "Google did that to you--it made you challenge all your assumptions and experience-based ideas until you began to wonder if up was really up, or if it might not actually be a different kind of down." This sounds like kind of a good thing to me - even if I don't work at Google.


• Winning Workplaces provides a list of the 10 most popular articles on their website in the past 10 years. From company culture to work-life balance, take a look at their most popular articles.


• When Goldman Sachs, the second largest contributor to the Obama presidential campaign in 2008, forecasts gloom and doom in this economy, employers ought to sit up and take note. I love rosy-eyed glasses, but we're using information such as this as we make plans for our company.


• I can be Pollyanna, so I want to provide realistic data so that you can make educated decisions for your business and your family. Here's a good summary of what consumers are thinking. Despite the article's headline, consumer confidence fell in July, unexpectedly - not.


• If this is true, Congress is considering asking mere mortal Americans to voluntarily pay down the government debt by voluntarily donating from their paychecks. Can you even imagine the burden to employers re: withholding, paperwork, and regulations if even one employee donates? I can... and it isn't pretty.


• I'm a huge Harry Potter fan, so my fun post of the week deals with How to Photograph a Dragon. Brought to you from the wonderful photography site at About.com, Liz Masoner (who doesn't do weddings or family portraits) has written a winner.

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