Moving Beyond Gore’s Message: (Science and the Media)
Gore has done a very good job of intensifying the beliefs of audiences who were already concerned about climate change, but a deep perceptual divide between partisans remains.
2008, adaptation, communcation, essay, framing, globalwarming, gore, influence, nisbet, perception, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.csicop.org/scienceandmedia/beyond-gores-message
Gore has done a very good job of intensifying the beliefs of audiences who were already concerned about climate change, but a deep perceptual divide between partisans remains.
2008, adaptation, communcation, essay, framing, globalwarming, gore, influence, nisbet, perception, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.csicop.org/scienceandmedia/beyond-gores-message
Kaizen, That Continuous Improvement Strategy, Finds Its Ideal Environment - New York Times
Given a performance measure, be it clicks, revenue or something entirely different, a disciplined process of experimentation and evaluation can lead to rapid improvements.
2007, adaptation, adoption, article, evaluation, experimentation, exploration, feedback, innovation, kaizen, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/08/business/08scene.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin&oref...
Given a performance measure, be it clicks, revenue or something entirely different, a disciplined process of experimentation and evaluation can lead to rapid improvements.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/08/business/08scene.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin&oref...
The Ed Techie: Web 2.0 - even if we're wrong, we're right
Whatever comes after web 2.0, people best placed to understand it and adapt to it will be those who have immersed themselves in the current technological climate, and not those who have ...
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http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2008/05/web-20---even-i.html
Whatever comes after web 2.0, people best placed to understand it and adapt to it will be those who have immersed themselves in the current technological climate, and not those who have ...
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http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2008/05/web-20---even-i.html
The Care and Feeding of FOSS: The Lifecycle of Software Technology
There is a natural "lifecycle" to software technology, which includes both commercial periods and FOSS periods. Those who understand this pattern can work with it and thrive.
adaptation, collaboration, commercialization, commoditization, competition, consolidation, expansion, free, innovation, invention, More... saved by: meryn and 2 people more details ...
http://www.moonviewscientific.com/essays/software_lifecycle.htm
There is a natural "lifecycle" to software technology, which includes both commercial periods and FOSS periods. Those who understand this pattern can work with it and thrive.
adaptation, collaboration, commercialization, commoditization, competition, consolidation, expansion, free, innovation, invention, More... saved by: meryn and 2 people more details ...
http://www.moonviewscientific.com/essays/software_lifecycle.htm
General Living Systems Theory
Instead of examining phenomena by attempting to break things down into component parts, GST explores phenomena in terms of dynamic patterns of relationship. This shift in focus-- from thi...
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http://www.mollyyoungbrown.com/systems_article.htm
Instead of examining phenomena by attempting to break things down into component parts, GST explores phenomena in terms of dynamic patterns of relationship. This shift in focus-- from thi...
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http://www.mollyyoungbrown.com/systems_article.htm
Folksonomy Notes: Considering the Downsides, Behavioral Trends, and Adaptation
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http://www.bokardo.com/archives/folksonomy_notes
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http://www.bokardo.com/archives/folksonomy_notes
Complexity Rising: From Human Beings to Human Civilization, a Complexity Profile
This article analyzes the human social environment using the "complexity profile," a mathematical tool for characterizing the collective behavior of a system.
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http://necsi.net/projects/yaneer/Civilization.html
This article analyzes the human social environment using the "complexity profile," a mathematical tool for characterizing the collective behavior of a system.
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http://necsi.net/projects/yaneer/Civilization.html
Complex Adaptive Systems
CAS have many autonomous parts, they are able to respond to external changes and form self-maintaining systems with internal feedback paths. They self-orgnize to optimize function
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http://www.calresco.org/lucas/cas.htm
CAS have many autonomous parts, they are able to respond to external changes and form self-maintaining systems with internal feedback paths. They self-orgnize to optimize function
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http://www.calresco.org/lucas/cas.htm
Counterintuitive Management of Information Technology
We propose here a new set of assumptions centered around built-in flexibility on which decisions can be based that will no longer perpetuate IT systems that impede change.
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http://home.att.net/~Flexibility/Counter/Intuitive.htm
We propose here a new set of assumptions centered around built-in flexibility on which decisions can be based that will no longer perpetuate IT systems that impede change.
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http://home.att.net/~Flexibility/Counter/Intuitive.htm
Better is better: improving productivity through programming languages
I think the move to better languages, and letting developers use the best tools for the job will herald an economic boom, one that is sustainable and wealth-creating because it represents...
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http://www.dehora.net/journal/2004/04/better_is_better_improving_productivity_through_progra...
I think the move to better languages, and letting developers use the best tools for the job will herald an economic boom, one that is sustainable and wealth-creating because it represents...
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http://www.dehora.net/journal/2004/04/better_is_better_improving_productivity_through_progra...
Adaptations
The author sees "a maturing and proliferating marketplace in which large new species, all dependent on open source, are coming to dominate the commercial space."
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/7710/print
The author sees "a maturing and proliferating marketplace in which large new species, all dependent on open source, are coming to dominate the commercial space."
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/7710/print
RoysSocialExperiment
So while many companies are primarily defined by a business model, ThoughtWorks is primarily defined by our social model. Our belief is that an organization with the right social model ca...
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http://martinfowler.com/bliki/RoysSocialExperiment.html
So while many companies are primarily defined by a business model, ThoughtWorks is primarily defined by our social model. Our belief is that an organization with the right social model ca...
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http://martinfowler.com/bliki/RoysSocialExperiment.html
Sample Chapter for Vermeij, G.J.: Nature: An Economic History.
At its core, this book is an economic analysis of history. In it, I argue that economic principles applicable to humans are the same as those that govern all other forms of life.
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http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/chapters/s7912.html
At its core, this book is an economic analysis of history. In it, I argue that economic principles applicable to humans are the same as those that govern all other forms of life.
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http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/chapters/s7912.html
Midsize Businesses Have No Use for Linux
in midsized companies, adding Linux would create a multiplatform company where a Microsoft-only shop existed previously. Koelsch said adding Linux at these companies could result in signi...
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1783281,00.asp
in midsized companies, adding Linux would create a multiplatform company where a Microsoft-only shop existed previously. Koelsch said adding Linux at these companies could result in signi...
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1783281,00.asp
The Red Queen Principle
Fitness increase in one evolutionary system will tend to lead to fitness decrease in another system. The only way that a species involved in a competition can maintain its fitness relativ...
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http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/REDQUEEN.html
Fitness increase in one evolutionary system will tend to lead to fitness decrease in another system. The only way that a species involved in a competition can maintain its fitness relativ...
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http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/REDQUEEN.html
The Direction of Evolution
Although evolution is chaotic and unpredictable, it moves preferentially in the direction of increasing fitness.
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http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/DIREVOL.html
Although evolution is chaotic and unpredictable, it moves preferentially in the direction of increasing fitness.
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http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/DIREVOL.html
System Science
The fundamental concepts that recur most often in the biological, ecological, and economic models [...] can easily be grouped into several major categories: energy and its use; flows, cyc...
acceleration, adaptation, compensation, evolution, organization, oscillation, progression, regulation, stabilization, transformation, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://futurepositive.synearth.net/2003/07/29
The fundamental concepts that recur most often in the biological, ecological, and economic models [...] can easily be grouped into several major categories: energy and its use; flows, cyc...
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http://futurepositive.synearth.net/2003/07/29
Change or Die
Mastering the ability to change isn't just a crucial strategy for business. It's a necessity for health. And it's possibly the one thing that's most worth learning.
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http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/94/open_change-or-die.html
Mastering the ability to change isn't just a crucial strategy for business. It's a necessity for health. And it's possibly the one thing that's most worth learning.
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http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/94/open_change-or-die.html
Racing Its Rivals, I.B.M. Risks Tripping Itself Up
The logic is to move up the economic ladder to more complex and more profitable tiers of the services industry, thus staying ahead of rivals offering less expensive services - Indian outs...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/16/technology/16place.html?
The logic is to move up the economic ladder to more complex and more profitable tiers of the services industry, thus staying ahead of rivals offering less expensive services - Indian outs...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/16/technology/16place.html?
Can Your Firm Develop a Sustainable Edge?
Increasingly the only sustainable edge has to do with the capacity to accelerate capability building. Companies must be able to build distinctive capabilities more rapidly than anyone else.
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http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/index.cfm?fa=viewArticle&id=1220
Increasingly the only sustainable edge has to do with the capacity to accelerate capability building. Companies must be able to build distinctive capabilities more rapidly than anyone else.
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http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/index.cfm?fa=viewArticle&id=1220
Evolution in Action
Things that breed rapidly more quickly adopt through natural selection to a changing environment.
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http://www.adambosworth.net/archives/2004_10.html
Things that breed rapidly more quickly adopt through natural selection to a changing environment.
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http://www.adambosworth.net/archives/2004_10.html
The Adaptive Enterprise (May 2003)
Response to change is the new competitive advantage.
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http://www.chiefexecutive.net/ceoviewpoints/may2003/index.html
Response to change is the new competitive advantage.
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http://www.chiefexecutive.net/ceoviewpoints/may2003/index.html
Anniversary lessons from eBay
To succeed, firms need agility, an open mind and the ability to reinvent themselves repeatedly. Most of all, they need to listen carefully to their customers, paying close attention to wh...
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http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=4055579
To succeed, firms need agility, an open mind and the ability to reinvent themselves repeatedly. Most of all, they need to listen carefully to their customers, paying close attention to wh...
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http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=4055579
CTC Keynote: Thomas Malone
Some of the most important innovations in the coming decades will not be new technologies. They'll be be new ways of organiating work that are made possible by these new technologies.
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http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2005/06/ctc_keynote_tho.html
Some of the most important innovations in the coming decades will not be new technologies. They'll be be new ways of organiating work that are made possible by these new technologies.
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http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2005/06/ctc_keynote_tho.html
Can contracts survive in the grassroots ecosystem?
Contracts are awkward beasts, and they generate a lot of friction. Of course, some friction is a good and necessary thing, but if we can’t make contracts easier to use, the grassroots e...
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/06/29/27OPstrategic_1.html
Contracts are awkward beasts, and they generate a lot of friction. Of course, some friction is a good and necessary thing, but if we can’t make contracts easier to use, the grassroots e...
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/06/29/27OPstrategic_1.html
The Enduring Value of the Mainframe
If what they offer has value; if their underlying architecture has the flexibility to keep evolving; and, most important, if one keeps investing in them with the latest technologies and c...
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http://irvingwb.typepad.com/blog/2005/07/the_enduring_va.html
If what they offer has value; if their underlying architecture has the flexibility to keep evolving; and, most important, if one keeps investing in them with the latest technologies and c...
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http://irvingwb.typepad.com/blog/2005/07/the_enduring_va.html
An Important Emerging Economic Paradigm
Meir Kohn has identified some important characteristics of an emerging alternative paradigm in economics. This approach, which he calls "the exchange paradigm" and which I prefer to call ...
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http://www.techcentralstation.com/030205A.html
Meir Kohn has identified some important characteristics of an emerging alternative paradigm in economics. This approach, which he calls "the exchange paradigm" and which I prefer to call ...
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http://www.techcentralstation.com/030205A.html
Yet Another Better Mousetrap Successfully Ignored
While those building new infrastructure do prefer to start with a newer, better foundation, those with existing infrastructure continue to have little enthusiasm for wholesale (disruptive...
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http://www.illuminata.com/perspectives/?p=56
While those building new infrastructure do prefer to start with a newer, better foundation, those with existing infrastructure continue to have little enthusiasm for wholesale (disruptive...
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http://www.illuminata.com/perspectives/?p=56
Are you becoming irrelevant to your customers?
If you sense the cold breath of “disintermediation” on your back, more likely than not a bunch of upstarts are delivering your business’ core value proposition for less cost and in ...
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http://www.adage.com/news.cms?newsId=45512
If you sense the cold breath of “disintermediation” on your back, more likely than not a bunch of upstarts are delivering your business’ core value proposition for less cost and in ...
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http://www.adage.com/news.cms?newsId=45512
Productive Friction at eBay
The friction generated by such interactions [between Ebay stakeholders] can often be mistaken for unhappiness, rather than as an encouraging sign that people are engaged and care about ou...
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http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2005/07/productive_fric.html?campai...
The friction generated by such interactions [between Ebay stakeholders] can often be mistaken for unhappiness, rather than as an encouraging sign that people are engaged and care about ou...
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http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2005/07/productive_fric.html?campai...
Churning Things Up
[Nonlinear strategic actions can not only] improve the position of the company within the environment, but they hold the promise of shaping the environment so that it is favorable to the ...
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http://www.mutualofamerica.com/articles/Fortune/July03/fortune.asp
[Nonlinear strategic actions can not only] improve the position of the company within the environment, but they hold the promise of shaping the environment so that it is favorable to the ...
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http://www.mutualofamerica.com/articles/Fortune/July03/fortune.asp
Web 2.0: Children of Miners and Prostitutes
What is new is a burgeoning awareness of all this, as if people are suddenly realizing that, quite without expecting it, the future had grown up around them.
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http://www.understandingxml.com/archives/2005/06/web_20_when_aja.html
What is new is a burgeoning awareness of all this, as if people are suddenly realizing that, quite without expecting it, the future had grown up around them.
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http://www.understandingxml.com/archives/2005/06/web_20_when_aja.html
Open Source Positioning
[Seven ways] companies (mostly software vendors) position towards Open Source,
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http://jboss.org/jbossBlog/blog/slabourey/2005/07/18/Open_Source_Positioning.txt
[Seven ways] companies (mostly software vendors) position towards Open Source,
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http://jboss.org/jbossBlog/blog/slabourey/2005/07/18/Open_Source_Positioning.txt
CRM Pundits, Where are You?
The discontinuity between the new customer's psyche, demands and actions and the old style corporate logic is both blatant, and, if recognized, a helluva business opportunity for the prog...
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http://the56group.typepad.com/pgreenblog/2005/08/crm_pundits_whe.html
The discontinuity between the new customer's psyche, demands and actions and the old style corporate logic is both blatant, and, if recognized, a helluva business opportunity for the prog...
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http://the56group.typepad.com/pgreenblog/2005/08/crm_pundits_whe.html
Is it Time to Shift Strategy?
The best companies at weathering fundamental industry upheaval are those that spot and act on early warning signs
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http://hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4894&t=innovation
The best companies at weathering fundamental industry upheaval are those that spot and act on early warning signs
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http://hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4894&t=innovation
Drilling for Broke? Experts Debate 'Peak Oil'
Uncertainty about the world [is not] a good reason to prefer government intervention over market solutions; if the market is uncertain, then so should you be about what the best governmen...
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http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/econoblog08032005.htm
Uncertainty about the world [is not] a good reason to prefer government intervention over market solutions; if the market is uncertain, then so should you be about what the best governmen...
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http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/econoblog08032005.htm
How to talk to an economist about peak oil
Profit-seeking [makes] the oil price rise now rather than wait until production actually declines, and [...] this force further [produces] the kind of changes that society needs to make n...
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http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2005/07/how_to_talk_to.html
Profit-seeking [makes] the oil price rise now rather than wait until production actually declines, and [...] this force further [produces] the kind of changes that society needs to make n...
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http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2005/07/how_to_talk_to.html
Eating Oil
At a time when we should be making massive cuts in emissions of greenhouse gases in order to reduce the threat posed by climate change, food supply chains are becoming more transport-inte...
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http://www.resurgence.org/resurgence/issues/jones216.htm
At a time when we should be making massive cuts in emissions of greenhouse gases in order to reduce the threat posed by climate change, food supply chains are becoming more transport-inte...
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http://www.resurgence.org/resurgence/issues/jones216.htm
Don’t take your memes to town
People’s ability to innovate is improving and that seems to come about by accepting Web thinking as much as any recent improvement in the toolchain. [...] Adapt your business or technol...
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http://lesscode.org/2005/08/07/dont-take-your-memes-to-town
People’s ability to innovate is improving and that seems to come about by accepting Web thinking as much as any recent improvement in the toolchain. [...] Adapt your business or technol...
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http://lesscode.org/2005/08/07/dont-take-your-memes-to-town
Web 2.0 and All That
Web 2.0 is an attitude not a technology. It’s about enabling and encouraging participation through open applications and services.
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http://internetalchemy.org/2005/07/talis-web-20-and-all-that
Web 2.0 is an attitude not a technology. It’s about enabling and encouraging participation through open applications and services.
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http://internetalchemy.org/2005/07/talis-web-20-and-all-that
The Clusterfuck Nation Manifesto
The scale at which we conduct the work of American life will have to be adjusted to fit the requirements of a post-globalist, post-cheap-oil age.
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http://www.kunstler.com/mags_diaryplus.html
The scale at which we conduct the work of American life will have to be adjusted to fit the requirements of a post-globalist, post-cheap-oil age.
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http://www.kunstler.com/mags_diaryplus.html
Cocaine use prevents adaptive behaviour
Cocaine may keep users from adapting to new situations by disrupting connections between key brain regions, suggests a new study in rats.
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http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7698
Cocaine may keep users from adapting to new situations by disrupting connections between key brain regions, suggests a new study in rats.
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http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7698
The World's Greatest Investors: Bill Miller
[Bill Miller's] explorations of behavioral psychology, evolutionary biology and other sciences have convinced him that markets evolve unendingly, that no fixed strategy or formula can suc...
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http://www.smartmoney.com/wgi/index.cfm?story=miller2005
[Bill Miller's] explorations of behavioral psychology, evolutionary biology and other sciences have convinced him that markets evolve unendingly, that no fixed strategy or formula can suc...
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http://www.smartmoney.com/wgi/index.cfm?story=miller2005
Bubble physics
Market ''bubbles" in houses, stocks, or anything else are just about as inevitable as earthquakes or floods, rising up out of the stream of humanity by virtue of the most elementary of hu...
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http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2005/08/07/bubble_physics
Market ''bubbles" in houses, stocks, or anything else are just about as inevitable as earthquakes or floods, rising up out of the stream of humanity by virtue of the most elementary of hu...
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http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2005/08/07/bubble_physics
No. Really. It's not *about* the technology.
APIs facilitate openness, but they're meaningless if your organization doesn't have the conceptual underpinnings to take advantage of it. And while the "logic" of Web 2.0 might be baked i...
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http://www.peterme.com/archives/000563.html
APIs facilitate openness, but they're meaningless if your organization doesn't have the conceptual underpinnings to take advantage of it. And while the "logic" of Web 2.0 might be baked i...
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http://www.peterme.com/archives/000563.html
Repost: Gas Tax Increases Revisited
[A national gas tax] would help reduce demand and show that markets work. The tax would allow individuals to make decisions on how best to deal with higher gas prices. This would unleash ...
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http://theoildrum.blogspot.com/2005/08/repost-gas-tax-increases-revisited.html
[A national gas tax] would help reduce demand and show that markets work. The tax would allow individuals to make decisions on how best to deal with higher gas prices. This would unleash ...
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http://theoildrum.blogspot.com/2005/08/repost-gas-tax-increases-revisited.html
Recession Predictor
How much additional pressure can the consumer absorb before pulling in his/her spending?
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http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2005/08/recession_predi.html
How much additional pressure can the consumer absorb before pulling in his/her spending?
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http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2005/08/recession_predi.html
Oil Inflation is Good Inflation
Oil inflation is a good thing. It encourages people to make wiser purchases. It encourages companies to come up with innovative techniques designed reduce energy usage and squeeze effic...
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http://www.thestalwart.com/the_stalwart/2005/09/oil_inflation_i.html
Oil inflation is a good thing. It encourages people to make wiser purchases. It encourages companies to come up with innovative techniques designed reduce energy usage and squeeze effic...
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http://www.thestalwart.com/the_stalwart/2005/09/oil_inflation_i.html
Energy theory of value
Look at oil refinery investments. Look at India where power blackouts are routine. No amount of cheap labor helps if you don't have electricity and transporting goods is difficult. So it ...
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http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2005/09/energy_theory_o.html
Look at oil refinery investments. Look at India where power blackouts are routine. No amount of cheap labor helps if you don't have electricity and transporting goods is difficult. So it ...
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http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2005/09/energy_theory_o.html
Natural Selection and the Elusiveness of Hapiness
In cultures where large social groups give rise to specialized and competitive social roles, depression may be common because regulation systems are pushed far beyond the bounds for which...
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http://happinesspolicy.com/2005/10/31/paper-of-the-day-2
In cultures where large social groups give rise to specialized and competitive social roles, depression may be common because regulation systems are pushed far beyond the bounds for which...
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http://happinesspolicy.com/2005/10/31/paper-of-the-day-2