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11
Dec 09

What Climategate and Copenhagen are really about…

In a nutshell (Jeff McMahon at True/Slant):

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[US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke] said unparalleled economic growth occurred in the 20th Century because of two factors: access to cheap, abundant fossil fuels and ignorance or disregard for the fact that those fuels produced greenhouse gas pollution that caused global warming. Both of those factors, he said, belong to history.

“Those days are over,” Locke said moments ago in Copenhagen. “What’s required is nothing less than completely redesigning the way we produce and consume energy…. We’re talking about creating an entirely new model of economic growth.”The world has spent a century investing in petroleum infrastructure, Locke said: refineries, pipelines, stations.  Read more...

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10
Sep 09

Daily Links for September 9th

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  • CRMLowDown » Blog Archive » The 10 Best (and 10 Worst) Companies for Customer Service – Customers want good customer service, but if companies can just hire good PR people to cover problems up, how do we, as customers, ever demand that companies improve. We thought that a good start would be to close the information gap, so that customers know who is good and who isn’t. With that in mind, we have sifted through customer surveys and studies as well as some real-life experiences of customers, to come up with a list of the 10 best and the 10 worst companies for customer service.
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Sep 09

Daily Links for September 4th

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  • Labor Day by the numbers – Note that all numbers are current as of September 4, 2009.
  • American Vice: Mapping the 7 Deadly Sins – We're gluttons for infographics, and a team at Kansas State just served up a feast: maps of sin created by plotting per-capita stats on things like theft (envy) and STDs (lust). Christian clergy, likely noting the Bible Belt's status as Wrath Central, question the "science." Valid point—or maybe it's just the pride talking.
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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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12
Apr 09

Daily Links for April 11th through April 12th

  • What is Slow-Parenting? – Motherlode Blog – NYTimes.com – Slow parents understand that childrearing should not be a cross between a competitive sport and product-development. It is not a project; it’s a journey. Slow parenting is about giving kids lots of love and attention with no conditions attached.
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Apr 09

Daily Links for April 6th

  • US Envoy Writes of Israeli Threats – "I know as surely as I know anything that Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, was somehow involved in the attack," Dean wrote, describing how he had been under sharp criticism from Israeli politicians and media for his contacts with Palestinians. "Undoubtedly using a proxy, our ally Israel had tried to kill me."
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Feb 09

Daily Links for February 17th

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Feb 09

Daily Links for February 10th

  • Energy Information – Google PowerMeter, now in prototype, will receive information from utility smart meters and energy management devices and provide anyone who signs up access to her home electricity consumption right on her iGoogle homepage.
  • PsyBlog: Women’s Makeup Draws 33% More Men – Over the years those using cosmetics have attracted admiring glances from others for all sorts of reasons – including ritualistic and honorific – but often, especially in modern times, the context has been sexual. But does the application of these products make any difference to the way other people behave? While it might affect perceptions both positively and negatively, does it actually encourage others to make the first move?
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19
Dec 08

Daily Links for December 18th

  • RMI’s Oil Imports Map – RMI MOVE –
  • The Great Disruption – Scott Anthony – Why the Great Disruption? In the Great Depression, demand, output and wages declined across the board. Today's times are different. It isn't just that demand is sagging. It's that change is ripping through markets at unprecedented pace. Competitive advantage that took decades to build disappears seemingly overnight.
  • “Death Map”: Where Americans Are Most Likely To Die (IMAGES) – And while intense hurricanes and tornadoes steal headlines for their intense winds and overall destruction, the new map shows what other previous studies have found, that everyday hazards, such as severe winter and summer weather, and heat account for the majority of natural hazard deaths in the United States.
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29
Sep 08

“Will it be like the Great Depression?”

Yesterday was one of the few times my wife engaged me on politics and economics. (If anything, she usually chastises me for being too interested). She plainly asked me what’s going on and what it means for us. She asked if I thought it would be like the Great Depression, with people out of work, waiting in line at soup kitchens. I reflexively answered yes, and then spelled out my rationale.

After having the time to reflect on the question, my answers, the bailout, and the landscape as I see it, I can now say that I may have been wrong.

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