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- Career Voyages – Top 50 In-Demand Occupations – Initially, all of the occupations are displayed in descending order using the Top 50 rating (most desirable to least desirable). You may resort the occupations by clicking on a "Sort by" link in the table header.
- Technically Philly » Google Building Maker released for Philadelphia, 49 other cities | Covering the Community of People Who Use Technology in Philadelphia. – Philadelphia is one of 50 cities worldwide and just 21 in the United States that are part of the first wave of Google Building Maker, as the program was described in a company release from yesterday. Building Maker is a way to create geo-located 3D models of buildings that would be visible in Google Earth, with the intention of creating an impressively detailed Web atlas, though criticism already surrounds, as always, the heavy reliance on free citizen labor.
- :::Philebrity…media, culture, music and more::: » Blog Archive » Brian Tierney Pentagram Of Doom: This Guy Used To Be Somebody Once – In all likelihood, Philadelphia Newspapers Inc.’s various properties — which include the Inquirer, the Daily News and Philly.com — will go up on the auction block next month. And according to this ruling made at the end of last week, PNI’s lenders will be able to bid on them using money they’ve already thrown into PNI. This is a huge development, especially when you consider level of utterly un-sexy media navel-gazing that covering this story has required. What it means is that Tierney has lost the fight; that the half-baked “Keep It Local!” campaign was an utter failure; and that some time in the next two months or so, someone else is probably gonna own all of this stuff, inheriting a raft of problems that make you question just why anyone, corporation or real person, would want it in the first place. And yet, the story has been really, really under-reported.
- Research on Social Network Sites – The research contained below is focused specifically on social network sites (or "social networking" sites). Some of this is connected to social media, social software, Web2.0, social bookmarking, educational technologies, communities research, etc. but this is not the organizing focus and not everything related to these other topics is included here. This list is not methodologically or disciplinarily organized. There is work here from communications, information science, anthropology, sociology, economics, political science, cultural studies, computer science, etc.
- The ‘Average American’ Is Dying Off – "The concept of an 'average American' is gone, probably forever," demographics expert Peter Francese writes in 2010 America, a new Ad Age white paper. "The average American has been replaced by a complex, multidimensional society that defies simplistic labeling."
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