var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/08/book-review-inbound-marketing/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — If you build it, they will come. And by “it,” the authors of “Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs” mean a quality online-presence supported by effective Internet-marketing.
In the olden days of marketing — say, before 2000 — most marketers and public-relations professionals used […]
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Book Review: “Inbound Marketing”
March 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Advertising, Book Reviews, Books, Boston, Business, Culture, Journalism, Marketing, Massachusetts, Media, Personal, Technology, The Boston Globe, The Middle East
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Types of Bosses
March 8th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Business, Economics, Finance, Personal
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/08/types-of-bosses/’,size:‘large’} As I wrote in a prior post, I have had extremely horrible bosses in the United States, Europe, and Israel. Now that I own a consulting business and have to deal with Excel spreadsheets, payrolls, and financial analyses, I can see the other side of the coin.
There are many articles […]
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Speak Hebrew, Not Yiddish
March 6th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Anti-Semitism, Anti-Zionism, Britain, Business, Culture, Europe, Immigration, Israel, Judaism, Language, Personal, Politics, Religion, Russia, The Middle East
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/06/speak-hebrew-not-yiddish/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — Whenever I hear American or European Jews speaking Ashkenazi Hebrew on the bus or in synagogue, I go nuts. And I shake my head at the growing popularity and revival of Yiddish among some Western Jews:
Although no one knows exactly how many Yiddish speakers there are […]
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Life in Israel
March 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Culture, Israel, Judaism, Liberal Pundits, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East, War, War on Terror
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/06/life-in-israel/’,size:‘large’} People always ask me what it’s like in Israel. Since I don’t usually have hours to respond with a nuanced, lengthy discussion, I normally boil it down to one sentence: “This country is the perfect combination of heaven and hell.”
Bradley Burston, a local columnist, puts it another way: “Living in […]
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Marriage — Brain or Heart?
March 3rd, 2010 · 6 Comments · Business, Civil Liberties, Culture, Dating, Economics, Education, Egypt, Feminism, India, Israel, Judaism, Personal, Politics, Religion, Sex, The Middle East
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/03/marriage-brain-or-heart/’,size:‘large’} Ninth in an ongoing series of essays
BANGALORE, India — While I was traveling to the Silicon Valley of the East in December 2006 with my Suffolk University M.B.A. class in Boston to study business there for a week, I popped into a local tourist trap to look at some […]
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New Economics Blog
March 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Business, Conservative Pundits, Economics, Europe, Finance, Globalization, Israel, Personal, Politics, The Middle East
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/01/new-economics-blog/’,size:‘large’} I am now a co-blogger on European and Middle East economics at the website in support of “The Return of the Great Depression” by libertarian, Austrian-school economist and political pundit Vox Day (blog, column archive).
Of course, I have complete freedom to write what I want, so I encourage my […]
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Journalism is a Business
February 28th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Boston, Business, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Education, Entertainment, Humor, Journalism, Marketing, Media, Personal, Politics
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/28/journalism-is-a-business/’,size:‘large’} Media Matters for America, a liberal, media-watchdog organization, reflects on how Fox News covered the one-year anniversary of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act:
On the one-year anniversary of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Fox & Friends purported to analyze the results of the bill […]
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Animal Rights Trump Human Rights
February 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Culture, Europe, Food, Law, Personal, Philosophy, Politics
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/26/animal-rights-trump-human-rights/’,size:‘large’} I love my dog. I think farm animals should be treated humanely and not spend their lives in factory farms. Still a new Swiss animal rights law carries with it the specter of enforced Jainism.
Where does it end? Will government some day tell me I can’t eat meat or […]
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Globalization of Identity
February 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Britain, Culture, Economics, Education, Egypt, Europe, Globalization, Immigration, Israel, Japan, Language, Law, Personal, Politics
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/24/globalized-identity/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — When I was a pre-teen and teenager, I took tennis lessons at Oak Hill Country Club (now closed) in Belleville, Illinois, and was later on my high school’s team for two years before my newfound passions for journalism and the Model U.N. took more of my time.
My favorite […]
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Israeli Stupidity
February 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Business, Culture, Economics, Finance, Israel, Law, Personal
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/24/israeli-stupidity/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — In prior posts, I discussed the frustrations of dealing the bureaucracy in Israeli customer-service. Now, Jonathan Degani, a former MBA classmate and colleague of mine, provides some similar — and, unfortunately, useful — information:
If you worked more than one job in the past seven years then […]
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Divided Jerusalem
February 22nd, 2010 · 9 Comments · Boston, Christianity, Civil Liberties, Culture, Europe, Immigration, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Law, Massachusetts, Palestine, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/22/divided-jerusalem/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — An city government official recently made an announcement that is realistically true in terms of Middle East peace:
Yakir Segev, who holds the East Jerusalem portfolio in the Jerusalem municipality, made an uncharacteristic remark on Friday, declaring that the Palestinian neighborhood east of the separation fence were “no […]
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Unemployed Men
February 19th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Business, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Economics, Entertainment, Feminism, Israel, Media, Palestine, Personal, Politics, The Middle East, War on Terror
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/19/unemployed-men-2/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — The Atlantic Monthly looks at the political and cultural consequences of the recession that pervades the Western world, and here is an enlightening excerpt:
In her classic sociology of the Depression, The Unemployed Man and His Family, Mirra Komarovsky vividly describes how joblessness strained—and in […]
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Big Trouble in Little China
February 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Culture, Entertainment, Humor, Personal
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I cannot believe that I had never seen the film until this morning! “Big Trouble in Little China” is definitely one of my favorites now. Two notes I did not know: The villain seems to be the same actor that played the host in the Chinese-restaurant episode of “Seinfeld,” […]
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Women of the Wall
February 16th, 2010 · 7 Comments · Civil Liberties, Culture, Feminism, Israel, Judaism, Law, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/16/women-of-the-wall/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — A group of ultra-Orthodox Jews verbally assaulted a group of women praying at the Western Wall, called them “Nazis,” and blamed them for the Holocaust.
It’s just another example of the insanity that pervades extremist groups in the Middle East. The group, members of Women of the Wall […]
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Student-Loan Debt
February 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Books, Business, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Economics, Education, Finance, Law, Liberal Pundits, Personal, Politics
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/16/student-loan-debt/’,size:‘large’} The Wall Street Journal reports on a trend in private debt that will no doubt escalate during the Great Recession:
When Michelle Bisutti, a 41-year-old family practitioner in Columbus, Ohio, finished medical school in 2003, her student-loan debt amounted to roughly $250,000. Since then, it has ballooned to […]
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