You Tube horror stories

by | Jan 29, 2008


By now, we’ve all read enough horror stories to know that we have to exercise restraint in what we post on Facebook or Friends Reunited. But are we sufficiently attuned to the risks of You Tube and camcorders in cellphones?

Before you answer that question, you may wish to view this engaging film of David Gergen* shaking his booty like it ain’t no thang on a Davos dancefloor. As David Steven and I have been known to observe, we’re all of us always engaged in public diplomacy, whether we realise it or not…

* Foreign Policy Adviser to Clinton, Bush Sr, Reagan, Ford and Nixon; Professor of Public Service, John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

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