Is Social Software Bad for the Dean Campaign?
Participation in online communities often provides a sense of satisfaction that actually dampens a willingness to interact with the real world.
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http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2004/01/26/is_social_software_bad_for_the_dean_campaign...
Participation in online communities often provides a sense of satisfaction that actually dampens a willingness to interact with the real world.
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http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2004/01/26/is_social_software_bad_for_the_dean_campaign...
Internal communication -- the real challenge of employee blogging
Companies need to make employees so involved in and committed to the business strategy that they will be out there "living it". Not because they're told so, but because they want to.
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http://www.corporateblogging.info/2005/06/internal-communication-real-challenge.asp
Companies need to make employees so involved in and committed to the business strategy that they will be out there "living it". Not because they're told so, but because they want to.
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http://www.corporateblogging.info/2005/06/internal-communication-real-challenge.asp
Linus on source code, developer craziness, and the makings of successful projects
Encourage them to make things configurable, so that the system integrators and distributors can [combine the parts into] a more unified whole. Maybe it won't be totally unified, but what ...
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2005/12/linus_on_source.html
Encourage them to make things configurable, so that the system integrators and distributors can [combine the parts into] a more unified whole. Maybe it won't be totally unified, but what ...
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2005/12/linus_on_source.html
Shopping is not patriotic
Too many stories about holiday spending imply that spending has some sort of positive externality, that the benefits extend far beyond the buyer and the seller.
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http://cafehayek.typepad.com/hayek/2005/11/shopping_is_not.html
Too many stories about holiday spending imply that spending has some sort of positive externality, that the benefits extend far beyond the buyer and the seller.
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http://cafehayek.typepad.com/hayek/2005/11/shopping_is_not.html
Needs, wants, nice to haves
What is ugly about marketing is that they prey on weaknesses to con us into believing we need something we don't. As a result, it is in the interest of the marketers of crap that we do no...
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http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2005/10/08.html#a1296
What is ugly about marketing is that they prey on weaknesses to con us into believing we need something we don't. As a result, it is in the interest of the marketers of crap that we do no...
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http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2005/10/08.html#a1296
Wanting vs. Liking in Welfare Economics
[Without pre-established harmony between formal utility and hedonic utility,] it will be possible in many circumstance to make people better off hedonically by decreasing their budget–b...
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http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2006/03/31/wanting-vs-liking-in-welfare-economics
[Without pre-established harmony between formal utility and hedonic utility,] it will be possible in many circumstance to make people better off hedonically by decreasing their budget–b...
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http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2006/03/31/wanting-vs-liking-in-welfare-economics
Economics is to sociology as Hume is to Aristotle?
At least until recently, sociologists have been more concerned with the study of preference formation than economists and therefore one would expect this to spillover into their normative...
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http://badanalysis.com/catallaxy/?p=1672
At least until recently, sociologists have been more concerned with the study of preference formation than economists and therefore one would expect this to spillover into their normative...
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http://badanalysis.com/catallaxy/?p=1672
The Persistence of Constraints
The fact that we all feel busy and that we feel the pressure of financial issues has nothing to do with our economy and everything to do with our nature. Religion is a much better place t...
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http://cafehayek.typepad.com/hayek/2006/03/the_persistence.html
The fact that we all feel busy and that we feel the pressure of financial issues has nothing to do with our economy and everything to do with our nature. Religion is a much better place t...
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http://cafehayek.typepad.com/hayek/2006/03/the_persistence.html
Finding Happiness in the Pursuit
The struggle for a certain achievement may offer a peculiar reward all its own. Although many people seem quite goal-oriented [...] maybe it's not so much having the stuff that people rea...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/08/business/09instincts.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
The struggle for a certain achievement may offer a peculiar reward all its own. Although many people seem quite goal-oriented [...] maybe it's not so much having the stuff that people rea...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/08/business/09instincts.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Custom Consumerism
In the lives of the business world, where corporate rigidity bottlenecks creative spirit with profit-and-loss statements, the creativity given to the consumer in the microcustomisation of...
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http://www.hyalineskies.com/blog/2005/11/custom-consumerism
In the lives of the business world, where corporate rigidity bottlenecks creative spirit with profit-and-loss statements, the creativity given to the consumer in the microcustomisation of...
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http://www.hyalineskies.com/blog/2005/11/custom-consumerism
Design as Play
Organisations that wish to foster creativity and innovation in the 21st century need to reshape their current conceptions of production and consumption.
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http://ullamaaria.typepad.com/hobbyprincess/2006/05/design_as_play_.html
Organisations that wish to foster creativity and innovation in the 21st century need to reshape their current conceptions of production and consumption.
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http://ullamaaria.typepad.com/hobbyprincess/2006/05/design_as_play_.html
The Incentive to Participate in Social Networks and Enterprise 2.0
Web 2.0 technology not only improving knowledge management and sharing processes, but it also has the ability to motivate people beyond their current levels of participation.
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http://jasonkolb.typepad.com/weblog/2006/04/the_incentive_t.html
Web 2.0 technology not only improving knowledge management and sharing processes, but it also has the ability to motivate people beyond their current levels of participation.
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http://jasonkolb.typepad.com/weblog/2006/04/the_incentive_t.html