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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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Oct 09

Daily Links for October 10th through October 12th

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  • How Rewards Can Backfire and Reduce Motivation | PsyBlog – Yet psychologists have long known that rewards are overrated. The carrot, of carrot-and-stick fame, is not as effective as we've been led to believe. Rewards work under some circumstances but sometimes they backfire. Spectacularly.
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Oct 09

Daily Links for October 7th through October 10th

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  • There’s No Place Like Home, Americans are Returning to Localism | Newgeography.com – Thriving neighborhood restaurants are one small data point in a larger trend I call the new localism. The basic premise: the longer people stay in their homes and communities, the more they identify with those places, and the greater their commitment to helping local businesses and institutions thrive, even in a downturn. Several factors are driving this process, including an aging population, suburbanization, the Internet, and an increased focus on family life. And even as the recession has begun to yield to recovery, our commitment to our local roots is only going to grow more profound. Evident before the recession, the new localism will shape how we live and work in the coming decades, and may even influence the course of our future politics.
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Oct 09

Daily Links for October 7th

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  • Gore Vidal’s United States of fury – Americas, World – The Independent – When did this happen to Gore Vidal? When did he go from righteous – and right – opposition to atrocities carried out by his own government, to justifying any atrocity against it, no matter how extreme? When I ask him, his scowl turns to a sneer, and he says I am ignorant and clearly haven't read anything. I decide to try a different approach. I ask him – if there were more people like McVeigh, would that be a good thing? There is a crack in his hauteur, and he says: "It strikes me as a perfect nightmare. Of course I don't want more people like McVeigh. Since Americans refuse to think about anything, being incapable I suspect of thought, then they're not going to come to any conclusions except mistaken ones."
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Jul 09

Daily Links for July 11th through July 13th

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  • Seth’s Blog: The CPM gap – Here's the thing: advertisers treat prospects online as targets, as victims, as people to subject to interruption. Conferences treat attendees as royalty, as paying customers who invested time and money to be there.

    And that's the difference. As long as your site is about something else and the ads are a distraction, you'll see CPM rates drop. As soon as you (or the advertisers) figure out that creating online communities aligned with the advertising, where attendance is a choice by the consumer, then you're creating genuine value.

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Apr 09

Daily Links for April 8th through April 9th

  • Shut Up: It’s Still A Secret – The Atlantic Politics Channel – "I appreciate that the new administration has a lot on its plate in this and related areas, that it is hampered by some difficulty getting its legal team confirmed by the Senate, and that it has said repeatedly that it is reviewing government policy on asserting the state secrets privilege," this lawyer said. "But all we have to go on now is what they have done so far and this latest position is disappointing."
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Mar 09

Daily Links for March 22nd through March 23rd

  • :::Philebrity…media, culture, music and more::: » Blog Archive » For Sale: The SS United States – as you’ve probably noticed, the great ship has sat in neglect and disrepair just off Delaware Avenue since 1996. Those days could be coming to an end quite soon, though, as the ship is up for sale, and according to this excellent PlanPhilly story by Steven B. Ujifusa, it will most likely go to scrap, providing an utterly awful national metaphor: It would most likely be “towed to Asia, and run aground on a foul, oil-smeared beach,” where it would be destroyed and sold off as hunks of metal to Asian junkmen. Owch. There is a conservancy group, The S.S. United States Conservancy, but it doesn’t look good. So if you’re an enterprising soul with lots of local and national pride, and with millions to spare, why not take a ride down to South Philly and take a look?
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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

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