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Dec 09

Daily Links for December 21st through December 26th

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  • why local first | Local First – This question is best answered by Michael H. Shuman, author of the book Going Local. "Going local does not mean walling off the outside world. It Means nurturing locally owned businesses which use local resources sustainably, employ local workers at decent wages and serve primarily local consumers. It means becoming more self-sufficient and less dependant on imports. Control moves from the boardrooms of distant corporations and back into the community where it belongs."
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Oct 09

Daily Links for October 1st through October 2nd

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  • Op-Ed Columnist – The Wizard of Beck – NYTimes.com – They pay more attention to Rush’s imaginary millions than to the real voters down the street. The Republican Party is unpopular because it’s more interested in pleasing Rush’s ghosts than actual people. The party is leaderless right now because nobody has the guts to step outside the rigid parameters enforced by the radio jocks and create a new party identity. The party is losing because it has adopted a radio entertainer’s niche-building strategy, while abandoning the politician’s coalition-building strategy.
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Jul 09

Daily Links for July 27th

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  • Unemployment: Great Depression vs Great Recession « Visualizing Economics – I created this infographic to compare the unemployment rate over the last 18 months to the Great Depression.
  • The psychology of overconfidence : The New Yorker – Cohen and Gooch ascribe the disaster at Gallipoli to a failure to adapt—a failure to take into account how reality did not conform to their expectations. And behind that failure to adapt was a deeply psychological problem: the British simply couldn’t wrap their heads around the fact that they might have to adapt. “Let me bring my lads face to face with Turks in the open field,” Hamilton wrote in his diary before the attack. “We must beat them every time because British volunteer soldiers are superior individuals to Anatolians, Syrians or Arabs and are animated with a superior ideal and an equal joy in battle.”
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Apr 09

Daily Links for April 17th

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Mar 09

Daily Links for March 10th through March 11th

  • GOOD » Making Sense of the Financial Mess» – We tried to make sense of the financial mess we’re in. As you can see, we couldn’t come up with anything satisfying, so we want your help. We’re offering $500 to the best global finance infographic we receive, as judged by a prominent economist. UPDATE (3/2/09): We’re blown away by the quality of these submissions. We’ve stopped accepting new ones at this point and judging is underway. We’ll be highlighting some of our favorite entries in the GOOD blog over the next week and we’ll be back here with an update on judging next Wednesday, March 11.
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Mar 09

Enough Already!! We’re all in – it’s time to show our hands.

The news has been consistently full of disheartening records of ‘lowest since’ and ‘highest since’ for quite a while.  Unemployment is still rising if not accelerating.   12% of all homes with mortgages are either in default, delinquent, or foreclosure.  Nearly every economic metric chart looks either like a moonshot or cliffdiving.  The Dow Jones has now fallen farther and faster than the it did in 1929.

It’s time to stop bluffing.

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Mar 09

Daily Links for March 2nd through March 3rd

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Feb 09

Daily Links for February 15th through February 16th

  • PsyBlog: Leaders Emerge by Talking First and Most Often – Crucially, though, the study showed that not only did a leader's dominant behaviour of itself encourage others to see that person as competent, but this was true even though their suggestions to the group were no better, or even worse than others. In reality the leaders did not always make the best contribution to the task, but their voices were usually heard first and most often.
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Feb 09

Daily Links for February 8th

  • Will Your Salary Drop? [PIC] – Business Buzz Your salary is at risk. Jobs are less stable every year in America. This chart shows the trend – and it has gotten much worse recently. Why is this happening? It is part of a shift in American life. Dalton Conley explains the whole story in his awesome new book Elsewhere, U.S.A..
  • Explore the world of configurators! — Configurator-Database – This site is home to the world's biggest configurator database. Scan over 500 web-based configurators now and follow the up-to-date discussion of these configurators in our blog. Also provided are video interviews with leading experts on configurators and mass customization, as well as a range of in-depth articles and definitions.
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Feb 09

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