- Calculated Risk: Fed Fears Long Recession - The Fed projects GDP to decline in 2009 "as a whole", and unemployment to "rise significantly into 2010". The Fed also expects disinflationary pressures to continue into 2010.
- air_force_blog_char.jpg (JPEG Image, 735×1106 pixels) - This flowchart highlights the blog reading decision making tree for the Air Force. I'd say it's actually quite good, assuming their intentions include being informative and not distributing solely propaganda.
- Google Trends: sears | closing | kmart - I've had a lot of search queries hitting my site for "sears store closing" referencing the "store closing list post". Based on the Google Trends chart, it's an annual occurrence, right after Christmas.
Daily Links for January 7th
January 8th, 2009 · No Comments
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Daily Links for January 5th
January 6th, 2009 · No Comments
- Digital guru Clay Shirky’s media forecast and predictions for 2009 | Media | The Guardian - "2009 is going to be a bloodbath." Yet he foresees that a recession may produce greater industry clarity by forcing radical action, which he explains as a boss saying to staff: "'Bonfire, this is Hail Mary time!', instead of: 'This year we made as much money as last year but we're still restructuring dramatically.'"
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Daily Links for January 1st through January 2nd
January 2nd, 2009 · No Comments
- How your friends’ friends can affect your mood - life - 30 December 2008 - New Scientist - Indeed, it is becoming clear that a whole range of phenomena are transmitted through networks of friends in ways that are not entirely understood: happiness and depression, obesity, drinking and smoking habits, ill-health, the inclination to turn out and vote in elections, a taste for certain music or food, a preference for online privacy, even the tendency to attempt or think about suicide. They ripple through networks "like pebbles thrown into a pond", says Nicholas Christakis, a medical sociologist at Harvard Medical School in Boston, who has pioneered much of the new work.
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Daily Links for December 22nd through December 31st
December 31st, 2008 · No Comments
- Fimoculous.com - misc - 30 Most Notable Blogs of 2008 - Maybe half of the blogs listed below are new, and the other half deserve attention for having reinvented the medium in some way. Consensus is an impossible task in a world this diverse, but that shouldn't stop us from pointing out excellence when we see it. So here they are, the most notable blogs of the past year[.]
- Inside the Playbook - The New York Times -
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Daily Links for December 11th
December 12th, 2008 · No Comments
- Retailer Survival Tips - Marketing & Strategy Innovation Blog - The holidays are going to stink. But I'm hopeful that the crisis will be cathartic for retailers, and that the smart ones will embark in 2009 on the true journeys of reinvention that, up to now, they've barely even recognized, let alone begun.
- Philadelphia Will Do » Give This The Pulitzer - Does it get any better than these courtroom sketches of Rod Blagojevich? Why yes, yes it does, in the form of a Chicago Sun-Times story headlined, “Is Blago’s hair a sign of sickness?
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Daily Links for December 9th
December 10th, 2008 · No Comments
- GOOD » Books Are the New Cars» - Another day, another imploding industry…
- Economist’s View: “Capitalist Fools” - Was there any single decision which, had it been reversed, would have changed the course of history? … The truth is most of the individual mistakes boil down to just one: a belief that markets are self-adjusting and that the role of government should be minimal. … The embrace by America—and much of the rest of the world—of this flawed economic philosophy made it inevitable that we would eventually arrive at the place we are today.
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Daily Links for December 8th
December 9th, 2008 · No Comments
- Bush by the Numbers - ProPublica - The Bush legacy - by the numbers…
- The Inigo Montoya Guide to 27 Commonly Misused Words — Copyblogger - You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. ~Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride It may be inconceivable for you to misuse a word, but a quick look around the web reveals plenty of people doing it. And it’s all too easy when we hear or see others use words incorrectly and parrot them without knowing it’s wrong.
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Daily Links for December 7th
December 8th, 2008 · No Comments
- AllofMe | Timeline yourself - It's a shame this is hosted software and not something I could run on my local computer or my own server.
- The Cycle of Codependency - An interesting chart which shows the relationships between the Chinese and American economies.
- Search Inc.com: Images and PDFs - Inc magazine has some good one-pagers and infographics.
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