Beutelevision » Culture http://beutelevision.com/blog2 by Thomas Beutel Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:24:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 For-Profit Do-Gooders http://beutelevision.com/blog2/2009/01/31/for-profit-do-gooders/ http://beutelevision.com/blog2/2009/01/31/for-profit-do-gooders/#comments Sat, 31 Jan 2009 18:07:36 +0000 Thomas Beutel http://beutelevision.com/blog2/?p=127 Economist magazine has a great article on for-profit activism and mentions both 1BOG.org and Virgance.

1BOG helped me get a solar panel system last year and I’m am still delighted with how well the whole process went. Thank you again 1BOG and congrats to you and Virgance!

]]> http://beutelevision.com/blog2/2009/01/31/for-profit-do-gooders/feed/ 0 Great Historical Figure Created By Accident on the Internet http://beutelevision.com/blog2/2006/04/25/great-historical-figure-created-by-accident-on-the-internet/ http://beutelevision.com/blog2/2006/04/25/great-historical-figure-created-by-accident-on-the-internet/#comments Wed, 26 Apr 2006 06:25:44 +0000 Thomas Beutel http://www.beutelevision.com/blog/great-historical-figure-created-by.html If you search for the name “Harold Thurman Whitman” on Google you will find about 900 references to his quote:

“Do not ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

Yet try as you might, you will not find any historical information about this great man. That is because he doesn’t exist. This quote has been copied over and over on many websites, even to quotation websites! The sheer number of citations now obscures the fact that the quote is properly attributed to Howard Thurman.

It shows how easy it is to assume that something is correct simply because of it’s prevalence in a search result.

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