- "Innovation" is Dead. Herald The Birth of "Transformation" as The Key Concept for 2009. - BusinessWeek - In the end, “Innovation” proved to be weak as both a tactic and strategy in the face of economic and social turmoil. It couldn’t get us safely through the troubles of 08 (indeed, financial innovation was to large degree responsible for the economic trainwreck). Most importantly, “innovation” cannot guide us into an uncertain and tumultuous future. It is too narrow to generate radical alternative options and build risk-taking frontier skills needed to remake and restructure our lives, our economies and our countries. We need a deeper, more robust concept. “Transformation” captures the key changes already underway and can help guide us into the future. It implies that our lives will increasingly be organized around digital platforms and networks that will replace edifices and big organizations (students already know this, university presidents still have edifice-complexes, which is why so many of them are getting the boot).
Daily Links for January 3rd through January 4th
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Daily Links for January 2nd
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- Pa. open-records law takes effect today | Philadelphia Inquirer | 01/01/2009 - The legislation will free Pennsylvania from having one of the worst records in the nation - some believe it was the worst - in providing access to government documents. In essence, it declares that all state, county and local government records are public unless specifically exempted. It is a vast change from the state's previous Right to Know Act, written in 1957, which had a very narrow definition of what constituted a public record.
- 9 Ways to Visualize Consumer Spending | FlowingData -
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Daily Links for January 1st through January 2nd
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- 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
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- 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 21st
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- Golden West deal doomed Wachovia in crisis | CharlotteObserver.com - Wachovia, a brand known for conservative lending, had changed course and forged its biggest deal ever. Two and a half years later, the purchase has played a central role in the Charlotte bank's near collapse and its planned sale to San Francisco-based Wells Fargo. Shareholders vote Tuesday on the takeover.
- The Washington Monthly - The Bush gang's penchant for secrecy is well known, but let's not forget their goal of taking their secrets with them.
- US Flight information and Airport Status - A tool that allows you to track flights.
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Daily Links for December 20th
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- GOOD » A Glimpse at the Future of Journalism» - It’s no secret that the industry’s future is bleak, and death is always a worthy story. But you seldom read about ideas for completely overhauling the industry. I don’t know why—music and cars get that treatment all the time. Perhaps it’s too much to ask journalists to prescribe their own cure—like asking a surgeon to perform a heart transplant on herself. Yet the ideas do exist.
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Daily Links for December 15th
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- What does Barack Obama’s brain look like?: Scientific American Blog - The tendency to get stuck to beliefs is especially worrying when it affects politicians’ decision making, but Lehrer credits president-elect Obama with having a nuanced understanding of the human mind’s potential pitfalls. Obama, he says, is especially skilled at thinking about thinking: “I imagine that if you took a scan of his brain, you would see lots of activity in the prefrontal cortex, which doesn’t mean that he doesn’t experience the primal emotions that come from the amygdala.”
- Bernie Madoff’s Victims: The List -
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Daily Links for December 9th
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- 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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