- "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 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 17th
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- UCrime - University Crime - Largest University crime map mashup, covering over 200 universities.
- Death To The Embargo - We’ve never broken an embargo at TechCrunch. Not once. Today that ends. From now our new policy is to break every embargo. We’ll happily agree to whatever you ask of us, and then we’ll just do whatever we feel like right after that. We may break an embargo by one minute or three days. We’ll choose at random.
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Daily Links for November 24th
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- TPMCafe | Talking Points Memo | Why We’re Rescuing Wall Street and Not the Auto Industry: Citigroup Versus General Motors - Viewed from Wall Street, Citi is too big and important to be allowed to fail while GM is simply a big, clunky old manufacturing company that can go into chapter 11 and reorganize itself. The newly conventional wisdom on the Street is that the failure of the Treasury and the Fed to save Lehman Brothers was a grave mistake because Lehman's demise caused creditors and investors to panic, which turned the sub-prime loan mess into a financial catastrophe — a mistake that must not occur again. So, by this view, the government must do everything and anything to keep Citi alive. But GM? GM is just … jobs and communities.
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Daily Links for November 12th
November 13th, 2008 · No Comments
- Ironic Sans: At 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue - Other 1600 Pennsylvania Avenues throughout the United States.
- Where Homes Are Worth Less Than the Mortgage - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com - In 43 states, First American CoreLogic was able to analyze data for all homes with mortgages. Using estimates of current property values, the analysis shows that many homeowners owe more on their mortgages than the homes are now worth, a condition known as having negative equity. Move the cursor over a state to see the percentage of mortgaged homes with negative equity. Also shown is a statewide estimate for the total value of mortgaged homes compared to the total mortgage debt on those homes; the higher that number, the more indebted a state's homeowners are in relation to the value of their property.
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Daily Links for October 16th
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- Joe in the Spotlight - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com - Turns out that “Joe the Plumber,” as he became nationally known when Senator John McCain made him a theme at Wednesday night’s third and final presidential debate, may run a plumbing business but he is not a licensed plumber. His full name is Samuel J. Wurzelbacher. And he owes a bit in back taxes.
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Daily Links for October 4th
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- http://tmobile.modeaondemand.com/htc/g1/ - Wanna play with the T-Mobile G1?
- 2008 Presidential Election Interactive Map and History of the Electoral College - Select one of the starting views below the map. Click any state to start customizing your map. You can split ME and NE votes. As you modify a state, the total Electoral Vote counter will update. If cookies are set, your custom map will be saved for future visits to the site.
- Picasa 2.7 : Picasa 3 feature overview - Picasa and Picasa Web Albums Help -
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