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Feb 10

Daily Links for February 3rd through February 5th

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FORTUNE MAGAZINE – informational images –
Born Poor? | Santa Fe Reporter – Bowles’ most recent paper, published in the October 2009 issue of Science, was a huge project with 25 collaborators. It examines how wealth is transferred from parents to children in hunter-gatherer societies versus agricultural societies.
That might seem distant from the busy unemployment offices on Guadalupe Street. But everyone can relate to his chosen subject: inequality. He studies the economic differences between people with the same discipline that Jane Goodall studies chimpanzees or Stephen Hawking studies the cosmos.

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Jan 10

Daily Links for January 12th through January 15th

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social-media-print-magazines.png (PNG Image, 522×3218 pixels) – An infographic asserting that the rise of social media is correlated to the decline of print.
Why can’t the UK deal with snow? | GDS Publishing – As snow sweeps the country, the UK has coped in the way it usually does – with surprise, confusion and chaos.
How Much Is A Petabyte? | The Mozy Blog – An infographic of the size of a petabyte of data.
The App Store Economy is Booming – Apple – Gizmodo – An infographic detailing the metrics of the Apple iPhone/iPod apps store.

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Jan 10

Daily Links for January 3rd through January 8th

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Then vs. now: How prices have changed since 1999 – During the subsequent decade, the stock market made us rich as kings, then poor as church mice. We've taken a look back to see how the years have affected the price of 50 things we buy, or wish we could buy. Thanks to inflation, it takes around $1.30 to buy what $1 bought in 1999.

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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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Dec 09

Daily Links for December 17th through December 20th

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Track Visitor Engagement using Google Analytics! | Web Analytics Demystified – Keep in mind, what I’m describing in this post is not a full-blown measure of Visitor Engagement for a lot of reasons. Still, as I’m kicking it around it appears to be a pretty good start and per my entire approach towards measures of engagement, I’d rather have all of you banging on the idea than work in a vacuum.
So how does it work?
Failed Banks – The Wall Street Journal Online – An infographic.

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Dec 09

Daily Links for December 2nd through December 4th

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Researchers Say the Social Web Improves Kids’ Literacy (Geeks Say ‘Duh’) – According to a recent survey of around 3,000 kids, those who text, blog and use social sites such as Facebook have better writing skills than their less technologically inclined counterparts.
WordPress 2.9 Packs in Loads of Features: Hands-on Review « Weblog Tools Collection – WordPress 2.9 beta 2 is out, and the final release of WordPress 2.9 should be out in a short time. However, not many of you might have tried out the beta or may be aware of the new functionalities that will be included in it.
Here is a hands-on review of WordPress 2.9 Beta 2. I try to showcase some of the most interesting features you can look forward to.

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Nov 09

Daily Links for November 27th through November 28th

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Visual Literacy: An E-Learning Tutorial on Visualization for Communication, Engineering and Business – The Visual-Literacy.org e-learning course will be used as an online leveling course as well as a blended skill-building course for students of fourteen different university courses in four universities (for more than 500 students). These courses require advanced analytical and conceptual visualization skills in order to transform abstract thought efficiently into graphic, tangible forms and to manage the topic complexity and the problems addressed in each class.

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Oct 09

Falling Giants?

This floor mat issue is one more problem Toyota didn’t need (see Scholars and Rogues). Add to that a story currently below the radar involving a lawsuit and allegations that Toyota withheld evidence regarding roll-overs, a difficult economic environment, and a loss of customer-oriented focus, and you have a brand in-crisis.

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Sep 09

Daily Links for September 29th through September 30th

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Online video and audio: programmes and multimedia | The Economist – Explanatory audio and video from the Economist.
The Village Idiots—By Scott Horton (Harper’s Magazine) – Yesterday at a Middle East Institute function, however, honesty appears to have gotten the better of professional courtesy. A panel of three Middle Eastern journalists were asked by ThinkProgress what they felt about the Washington press corps and their knowledge of Middle Eastern issues. Here’s the answer from Nadia Bilbassy, White House correspondent for MBC, a satellite TV network in Dubai[.]

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Sep 09

Daily Links for September 27th through September 29th

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Student Loans: Studen Loan Interest and Total Cost of Student Loans | MintLife Blog | Personal Finance News & Advice – Sadness.
Colleges Cut Costs – TIME – A funky roommate named recession is settling in on campuses this fall as colleges and universities slash budgets for virtually everything from salad bars to ski teams. U.S. colleges and universities suffered, on average, a 23% endowment drop in the second half of last year, according to a study by a group of campus business officers. That reduction in funding has set off a scramble to freeze hiring, cut hours and hunker down until the economy improves. "Institutions will have to manage with less," says Oberlin's vice president for finance, Ron Watts. Here's a look at how schools are getting creative with their wallets.

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