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On Turning 55, THANKS and Happy New Year
Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com's comment,
January 1, 7:00 PM
FOM - lol
Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com's comment,
January 1, 7:05 PM
Happy Birthday Marty and a Happy New Years! Your positive and motivating posts are always at the top of my list of must read. Keep them coming. Brian (a proud member of the FOM club)
Martin (Marty) Smith's comment,
January 15, 9:15 PM
Thanks BY and right back at you. Marty
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I selected this post today from my fellow curator's collection gdecugis, (love what he had to say below). I personally think it's one of the best pieces I've seen so far on this subject. We're all dealing with this issue and sometimes when you see it articulated as Brian Solis has done not only is it comforting but widens your perspective which is the doorway to finding solutions. Excerpt: At a time where some are thinking we urgently need an information diet, Brian Solis puts things in perspective: don't panic!
What he describes on PandoDaily as "the fallacy of Information Overload" is the fact that while we all seem lost at one point or another because our world is changed by the social media revolution, it's both inevitable and something mankind will adapt to.
This post is a great summary of the different ways we are affected and why we shouldn't try to move back to the previous state. But work on improving our filters.
Curation, anyone? Selected by Jan Gordon covering "Content Curation, Social Business and Beyond" Read full article here: [http://bit.ly/zNUhJg] Via gdecugis, janlgordon 
Beth Kanter's comment,
January 24, 2012 10:49 AM
I reviewed the book, Information Diet,yesterday - http://www.bethkanter.org/info-diet/ it is excellent. He talks about curation as part of the solution, although it is framed as information literacy
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Turning 55 on 1.1.2013
In a few hours I turn 55. Couldn't have gotten here without a lot of help from family, friends and doctors (lol). Since it has take the Gross National Product of a small country to keep me here after three rounds of chemo I appreciate this birthday fully.
As I shared in Why Cancer Sucks...Mostly I'm glad the Big C's invisible hand has changed my life. Well maybe not "glad" but thankful. I'm thankful for the amazing people who've saved my life more than once. I'm thankful for having parents and a brother and a sister who are good in emergencies (lol). I'm thankful for having such amazing FOMs (Friends of Martin).
There are still BIG things on the Bucket List. I told my parents about the Elizabeth Martin and Duncan Smith Story of Cancer Trust in a letter this year so now the clock is ticking :).
The clock is always ticking and that is how life should be lived with an appreciation of each moment's magic, joy and connection. Since it takes an army of people with a variety of skills to make my life possible I say thanks, Thanks and THANKS.
Some will know how fully I love and appreciate them. Others who've help save my life won't be reading this post. I hope every It's A Wonderful Life person knows how much of a difference they've made. I understand my responsibility.
My responsibility is to pay the miracle of my life as far forward as possible. How many more New Years will we have? Who knows, but no matter how many more New Years we have together the mission is the same - cure cancer in our lifetime and love each other in this moment now.
Thanks and much love to all.
"Double Nickels" Martin Marty Smith
Durham, North Carolina
3 hours before New Years 2013