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freestudios.tv
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http://www.freestudios.tv
Dirty Secrets of the Food Processing Industry
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http://www.westonaprice.org/modernfood/dirty-secrets.html
New Yorker: The open secret of success - The New Yorker- msnbc.com
Toyota’s innovations [...] have focussed on process rather than on product, on the factory floor rather than on the showroom. That has made those innovations hard to see. But it hasnâ€...
2008, article, business, crowdsourcing, efficiency, innovation, kaizen, production, toyota saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24457074
Professionals Must Simplify Their Lives
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http://www.theproductivitypro.com/newsletters/Number%208%20October%201999.htm
What Hunger Insurance Could Teach Us About Health Insurance
To understand what lies at the heart of the failure of our current health-care financing system, imagine, if you can, what the world would be like if we tried to buy food the same way we ...
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http://www.fee.org/vnews.php?nid=2812
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.
adaptation, allocation, competition, consumption, cooperation, coordination, distribution, evolution, production, selection, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/chapters/s7912.html
By the Numbers: The Wal-Mart Dilemma, File Sharing and Lousy Service
At a micro level, customers are starting to flex their muscles and their creativity and working their way around market-distorting behaviours of obstinate and dysfunctional corporatists.
aberration, competition, globalization, optimization, production, protection, valuation saved by: meryn more details ...
http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2005/05/17.html#a1149
Wiki This- A Model for Customer Support Using Blogs and Wikis
Organizations can use blogs and message boards as a way to generate useful information and a wiki as a way to filter, archive and organize it for future reference.
accumulation, appropriation, archivation, collaboration, combination, communication, information, organization, production saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.commoncraft.com/archives/001040.html
Cornucopia of Cooperation and Social Spillover
This is a lengthy rant where I suggest that Cornucopia production can be realized not just through cooperation in developing a resource, but building upon success in governing each other ...
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http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2005/01/22/cornucopia_of_cooperation_and_social_spillov...
The Power Of Us
[Disparate innovations as the Internet, mobile devices, and the feedback system on eBay are] the underpinnings of a new economic order. These are like the stock companies and liability in...
2005, article, businessweek, collaboration, congregation, contribution, cooperation, coordination, decentralization, disruption, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_25/b3938601.htm
Web Content by and for the Masses
The Internet's new phase will shift power away from old-line media and software companies while rapidly bringing about an age of computerized "augmentation" by blending the skills of tens...
augmentation, collaboration, contribution, democratization, disintermediation, disruption, participation, production saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/29/technology/29content.html
The Power of Productivity
Many people look for the causes of poor economic performance primarily in macroeconomics, but we found that must also look at the industry level for causal factors for economic performance.
competition, education, motivation, optimization, production saved by: meryn more details ...
http://edgeperspectives.typepad.com/edge_perspectives/2005/06/the_power_of_pr.html
A 4th Long Tail business category: Tools
Three ascendant forces that are creating an era of Long Tails: Democratizing the tools of production; Lowering the transaction costs of consumption; Connecting consumers to drive demand t...
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http://longtail.typepad.com/the_long_tail/2005/07/a_4th_long_tail.html
Limitations of the Hirsch report on peak oil
Hirsch is using this notion of "world oil demand" in a way that he presumes holds meaning to any reader, but is definitely not the way mainstream economists would use the expression.
allocation, consumption, depletion, production saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2005/08/limitations_of.html
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
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
Money Makes the World Go Round—Or Does It?
In the contribution economy, companies can help people, people can help companies, and people can help other people without exchanging any money. [...] How do we measure [this] economic i...
collaboration, consumption, contribution, cooperation, participation, production saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/fastforward/0,15704,1088315,00.html
The Emerging Economics of Open Source Software
Open Source is more efficient than other economic paradigms of software development for producing software that does not differentiate its user's business.
collaboration, contribution, cooperation, emersion, free, innovation, opensource, production, seduction, software, More... saved by: meryn and 2 people more details ...
http://perens.com/Articles/Economic.html
Blogging, the Web and the Emergence of Collaborative Knowledge
I find it truly fascinating that far from being, as I thought, a mere exercise in "narcissism", blogging ends up being a primal, noble - even altruistic -- experience, showing humanity at...
aspiration, contribution, democratization, motivation, participation, production saved by: meryn more details ...
http://irvingwb.typepad.com/blog/2005/08/blogging_the_we.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...
adaptation, consumption, inflation, production, speculation saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.thestalwart.com/the_stalwart/2005/09/oil_inflation_i.html
Why Some Medical Spending Should Count as Investment
An extra 10% of birth weight raises earnings by about 1%. 10% more birth weight is about as valuable in the labor market as a quarter of a year of education.
attribution, contribution, estimation, exclusion, inclusion, production saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/economicsunbound/archives/2005/12/why_some_medica.htm...
Lee Kuan Yew on India — Part 4
The answer lies in what economists call the objective function. Individuals have a certain goal which can be stated as the maximization of a function given a set of constraints.
aspiration, corruption, motivation, optimization, prevarication, production, suboptimization saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.deeshaa.org/2006/01/04/lee-kuan-yew-on-india-part-4
How to Make Wealth
If you want to create wealth then you should be especially skeptical about any plan that centers on things you like doing. That is where your idea of what's valuable is least likely to co...
article, contribution, graham, innovation, motivation, production, wealth saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html
Why doesn't capital flow from rich to poor countries?
Low institutional quality is the leading explananation of the 'Lucas Paradox' - the lack of flows of capital from rich to poor countries.
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http://neweconomist.blogs.com/new_economist/2005/12/why_doesnt_capi.html
Web 3.0: Salesforce.com's 'Business Web'
By getting vendors to standardize on the Salesforce.com user interface, AppExchange is making an outright grab for the lucrative application-layer high ground of the Web 3.0 landscape.
addiction, attraction, democratization, facilitation, innovation, mediation, production, standardization saved by: meryn more details ...
http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/index.php?p=93
Productivity Arbitrage
Productivity Arbitrage is a strategy of statistical arbitrage which leverages innovative new technology to deliver solutions at the market price that is based on the historical price/valu...
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http://www.jroller.com/page/obie?entry=productivity_arbitrage
Searching for the invisible man
Domestication of wildcat entrepreneurialism is good news for economists. Once research and innovation are reduced to a regular outlay and a steady stream of results, they become amenable ...
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http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=5601890
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
Counting heads
Having a high-school diploma or university degree is a weak indicator of whether one has skills that increase productive capacity. Educational qualifications may be relatively easy to mea...
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http://www.economist.com/finance/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3127844
Open Source Curriculum Development
Contributed to by thousands of people, constantly growing, evolving, and customizable for use, [projects like Linux and Wikipedia] are powerful examples for us of how curricula can and sh...
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http://remoteaccess.typepad.com/remote_access/2006/06/open_source_cur.html
Machinima.com
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http://www.machinima.com
Tutorial: Turning cassettes into MP3s
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http://www.123macmini.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=14627
Vector Polishing Techniques
design, lens_flare_effects, production, tutorial, vector saved by: stinie and 2 people more details ...
http://www.webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/vector-polishing-techniques
El Vicio »
El Vicio Records producción y realización audiovisual - proyectos culturales
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http://elvicio.tv/el-vicio-records
El Vicio Producciones
booking, chile, events, music, production saved by: dynamicdata more details ...
http://www.elvicioproducciones.com
More than 100 Web 2.0 Online Generators
ajax, coding, css, design, generator, generators, html, list, online, production, More... saved by: Kleverson and 3 people more details ...
http://www.ifxplus.com/post/More-than-100-Web-20-Online-Generators.aspx
Making Music: A big list of FREE music making software!
applications, apps, art, articles, audio, blogging, computer, computers, cool, creativity, More... saved by: J__1 and 3 people more details ...
http://making-music.blogspot.com/2006/01/big-list-of-free-music-making-software.html