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  • Do natural disasters redistribute wealth?

    NYC Crime Rate Drops After Storm thedailybeast.com HURRICANE SANDY Hur­ri­cane Sandy may have dev­as­tat­ed areas of New York City, but there was one sil­ver lin­ing in the oth­er­wise mas­sive­ly destruc­tive storm cloud: the city’s over­all crime rate dropped 27 per­cent com­pared with the sam… http://flpbd.it/NBBoL Related articles A History of Disaster Capitalism (motherjones.com) How capitalism…

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  • Cyberwar of personalized data

    The cyber war: Deus ex machina economist.com THE scene could be in Tampa, or Santa Bar­bara, or Chica­go. Mr and Mrs Six­pack are relax­ing after din­ner with their iPads. Each is look­ing at the same news web­site, but each will be shown dif­fer­ent polit­i­cal adver­tis­ing. He sees… http://flpbd.it/I9SWg Related articles NATO cyberwar directive declares hackers…

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  • Infographics Are Hot, Your Boring Data Is Not

    Janine Popick, inc.com BASEMENT TO BOARDROOM Turn your boring piles of stats, data and other information into an eye-catching infographic using these three steps. Last week my online mar­ket­ing com­pa­ny, Ver­ti­cal­Re­sponse, pub­lished a big social media… http://flpbd.it/ZcoB9 Infographics Are Hot, Your Boring Data Is Not Related articles Infographics Are Hot, Your Boring Data Is Not…

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  • Power grid flaws exposed by Sandy hurricane

    Superstorm Shines A Light On Power Grid Vulnerabilities Scott Neuman, npr.org The storm that has spawned so many worst-ever superla­tives man­aged a few more when it comes to elec­tric­i­ty, with record-breaking power out­ages across 18 states stretch­ing from Michi­gan and Indi­ana to Maine and North Car­oli­na, accord­ing… http://flpbd.it/hDP1l Related articles Preparing The Grid For The…

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  • Redo the resume for shrinking attention spans

    How To Redesign Your Resume For A Recruiter’s 6-Second Attention Span By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com The average recruiter spends six seconds on your resume. So this is what you do. It’s fright­en­ing. You’ll spend most of your wak­ing life at a job, yet, accord­ing to a new study by The­Lad­ders, the aver­age recruiter spends just…

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  • Photograph your entire life

    A Wearable Camera That Photographs Your Entire Life By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com Microsoft’s cult-favorite SenseCam technology is reborn in a new, consumer- friendly package. One of the coolest things to come out of Red­mond was Microsoft’s Sense­Cam. It was a wear­able cam­era that took thou­sands of pic­tures of your daily… http://flpbd.it/zqJYU Related articles Wearable cameras…

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  • Digital agencies learn to design culture

    How Agencies Can Hack Culture for Brand Insights Rae Ann Fera, fastcocreate.com Pic­ture this: you’re in a meet­ing in which your team is chal­lenged to come up with ideas that tap into trends and pop cul­ture. Every­one at the table nods in agree­ment. Cul­ture! Yes. Impor­tant. Check. Two weeks later, only vague (if any)… http://flpbd.it/TWevT…

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  • Engineering language is the key to branding across culture

    Need Branding That Transcends Cultures? Invent Your Own Language By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com A thoughtful identity gives a multinational disease research network a new way to communicate. Oxford Uni­ver­si­ty’s Clin­i­cal Research Unit is an 11-year-old net­work of groups that coop­er­ate to track and pre­vent infec­tious dis­eases, fro… http://flpbd.it/XD4bv Related articles geordie shore cast are surprise…

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  • Silicon Valley’s Hottest Commodity: The Design-Savvy Founder

    Eric Markowitz, inc.com Inc.com staff Don’t get an MBA. Don’t even learn to code. If you really want to start a great company, hone your design skills. Reams have been writ­ten about the impor­tance of founders that can code—or, in Sil­i­con Val­ley par­lance, the… http://flpbd.it/5lhZ9 Silicon Valley’s Hottest Commodity: The Design-Savvy Founder Related articles Silicon…

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  • Why pirates make the best change agents according to Steve Jobs

    An HR Lesson From Steve Jobs: If You Want Change Agents, Hire Pirates By Peter Sander, fastcodesign.com Why? Because pirates can operate when rules and safety nets break down. [The fol­low­ing is an excerpt from What Would Steve Jobs Do?: How the Steve Jobs Way Can Inspire Any­one to Think Dif­fer­ent­ly and Win by Peter…

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  • Health 2.0: this year will be all about big data

    Health 2.0 Conference: Big Data Making A Big Impact Richard MacManus, readwrite.com At the end of the Health 2.0 Con­fer­ence ear­li­er this month, I sat down with the event’s co-founders Matthew Holt and Indu Sub­aiya to dis­cuss the big trends. I’d been impressed and excit­ed by the inno­va­tion demon­strat­ed at Health 2.0. It… http://flpbd.it/sqjx2 Related…

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  • Klout and other ways to measure your influence

    Beyond Klout: Better Ways To Measure Social Media Influence Adam Popescu, readwrite.com Mea­sur­ing social influ­ence online is becom­ing a more sophis­ti­cat­ed, refined and gran­u­lar process. While the much-maligned early leader in the mar­ket, Klout, has scooped up a lot of head­lines over the past few years, there’s a bet­ter… http://flpbd.it/7Qp5t Related articles Is Klout Gaining…

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