Posts Tagged: change

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Oct 09

Daily Links for October 22nd through October 23rd

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  • Gmail Users are Young, Female; AOL Users are Older – Social media data company Rapleaf has just completed a comprehensive study involving the demographics and behavior of webmail users. In the first part of their study, they looked specifically at age and gender data and revealed some interesting findings. For example, did you know that Gmail has more female users than male? And that Hotmail is the other way around? Meanwhile, AOL users are older…but maybe not as old as you think.
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Oct 09

Daily Links for October 10th through October 12th

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  • How Rewards Can Backfire and Reduce Motivation | PsyBlog – Yet psychologists have long known that rewards are overrated. The carrot, of carrot-and-stick fame, is not as effective as we've been led to believe. Rewards work under some circumstances but sometimes they backfire. Spectacularly.
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Sep 09

Daily Links for September 11th

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Aug 09

Daily Links for August 25th through August 26th

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  • New Research Examines How Career Dreams Die – "Most people don't give up easily on the dreams. They have to be given a graphic picture of what failure will look like if they don't make it," said Patrick Carroll, co-author of the study and assistant professor of psychology at Ohio State University at Lima.
  • 40 Free Unique Cartoon and Comic Fonts | Graphics – Have you ever feel that traditional fonts are a little too boring and plain for your designs and artworks? Ever wanted to use fonts that are funkier, stylish and fun to look at?
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Jun 09

Daily Links for June 10th

  • What World MPs Really Make – An infographic that details how much money the world's most effective politicians earn.
  • Philly LandStat – The LandStat application supports the analysis and display of aggregated data for land records information based on official documents tracked by the Department of Records through its PhilaDOX system. It includes data on Mortgages, Deeds, Sheriff's Deeds (an indicator of foreclosures), Real Estate Transfer Tax (RTT), Condominium Declarations, and Property types (residential, commercial, mixed use, etc.).
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May 09

Daily Links for May 19th through May 20th

  • The Benefits of Distraction and Overstimulation — New York Magazine – Twitter, Adderall, lifehacking, mindful jogging, power browsing, Obama’s BlackBerry, and the benefits of overstimulation.
  • Study surveys 25,000 owners, reveals most highly recommended vehicles – "Typically, car buyers are very pleased when they first drive their new car off the dealer lot. But just as a vehicle's worth depreciates over time, some car owners' level of confidence depreciates," says George Peterson, president of AutoPacific. "We have quantified their level of confidence to see which new car owners will recommend their model most and this is information which will help new car shoppers make informed, confident buying decisions. While many owners can be happy with their new cars, it takes another level of confidence to recommend it."
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Apr 09

Daily Links for April 26th through April 27th

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Apr 09

Daily Links for April 8th

  • How Obama Is Using the Science of Change – TIME – The existence of this behavioral dream team — which also included best-selling authors Dan Ariely of MIT (Predictably Irrational) and Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein of the University of Chicago (Nudge) as well as Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman of Princeton — has never been publicly disclosed, even though its members gave Obama white papers on messaging, fundraising and rumor control as well as voter mobilization. All their proposals — among them the famous online fundraising lotteries that gave small donors a chance to win face time with Obama — came with footnotes to peer-reviewed academic research. "It was amazing to have these bullet points telling us what to do and the science behind it," Moffo tells TIME. "These guys really know what makes people tick."
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Mar 09

Daily Links for March 22nd through March 23rd

  • :::Philebrity…media, culture, music and more::: » Blog Archive » For Sale: The SS United States – as you’ve probably noticed, the great ship has sat in neglect and disrepair just off Delaware Avenue since 1996. Those days could be coming to an end quite soon, though, as the ship is up for sale, and according to this excellent PlanPhilly story by Steven B. Ujifusa, it will most likely go to scrap, providing an utterly awful national metaphor: It would most likely be “towed to Asia, and run aground on a foul, oil-smeared beach,” where it would be destroyed and sold off as hunks of metal to Asian junkmen. Owch. There is a conservancy group, The S.S. United States Conservancy, but it doesn’t look good. So if you’re an enterprising soul with lots of local and national pride, and with millions to spare, why not take a ride down to South Philly and take a look?
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Feb 09

Daily Links for February 15th

  • Are you using Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter differently? | Blog of Mr. Tweet – Recently something struck me as I was checking out Facebook in the morning. One of my friends wrote a note for a party he was having, and I left a somewhat raunchy comment (joking of course). Immediately after that I switched over to Twitter, and tweeted a couple of very professional sounding comments and links.
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