New, in CJR: 'Gannett vs. the Gannett Blog' (1)
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From a story just posted on Columbia Journalism Review's website:"When the news broke, when clarity mattered most to the nearly 32,800 people working in Gannett's newspaper division, the announced elimination of 1,000 jobs came not from its eighty-four Local Information Centers but from a blog run by a man vacationing off the coast of Spain."About 2 a.m. in Spain on Aug. 14, Jim Hopkins, a fifty-one-year-old spending his summer on the Mediterranean island of Ibiza, ...
Rob Thompson's Mega GTD List | GTD Times (2)
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Rob Thompson, an obvious fan of GTD has taken the time to compile a fairly exhaustive list of GTD related content, sites and resources. There are sites on here even I haven’t seen before so I’m sure there are plenty of resources you’ll find useful too. You might as well take a fifteen minute break right now and check it out. Productivity porn at its finest! (Even if Rob did leave out GTDtimes. I’m trying ...
Recommended Christian Fiction - From Middle Grade to Adult (1)
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From time to time I get requests for a list of recommended Christian fiction. A couple years ago, I put together a Best of … [insert year] List, and I may again some time, but I found myself having to qualify the list, primarily because my reading is far from exhaustive. There are some genres I rarely touch, for instance. So it seems wiser to me to go with books I can recommend because I’ve ...
THE OLDEST, SIMPLEST SUCCESS LESSON (1)
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It’s a one-word answer, and you already know it. Super success has little to do with having a terrific product. It has little to do with whether you are wearing a smart suit or have that Pepsodent smile (remember that one?) It’s not about being smart or slick or even charming. It’s attitude. If you are reasonably good at what you do — and, most of all, if you are confident and sure of your ...
RECOMMENDED READING: “THE CAPITALIST MANIFESTO” (1)
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If you’re a true entrepreneur, or just a hard-and-fast capitalist, you need to read Andrew Bernstein’s The Capitalist Manifesto: The Historic, Economic and Philosophic Case for Laissez-faire. This truly amazing book documents in page after page of facts, why statism (socialism, Nazism, communism, and just do-gooder intrusive government) fails every time, and why the freer the economic system, the more prosperous the country. The Capitalist Manifesto leaves no doubt that it is the producers, the ...
Gillin: As Gannett Blog goes 'viral,' GCI loses control (2)
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Paul Gillin, author of Secrets of Social Media Marketing, writes today (second item) on the Newspaper Death Watch blog:"What do you do when a blogger becomes the chief source of information about what's going on inside your company for employees of that company? That’s the conundrum that's facing Gannett these days, as Jim Hopkins' independent Gannett Blog has apparently gone viral. Hopkins reveals some recent traffic statistics: 91,000 visits and 189,000 pageviews in the last ...
Couldn't they just require one of those bike-bell thingies? (1)
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Sometimes I am left just scratching my head:Electric and hybrid vehicles may be better for the environment, but the California Legislature says they're bad for the blind. It has passed a bill to ensure that the vehicles make enough noise to be heard by visually impaired people about to cross a street. The measure would establish a committee to study the issue and recommend ways the vehicles could make more noise. The state Department of ...
The slippery slope of fat tails (1)
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A few weeks back, Gernot made reference to Martin Weitzman's work on analyzing climate change as a low probability, high-stakes event. After a few weeks, I've had a little time to give some blog-level reflection to what Weitzman has to say and quite frankly, I'm not sure I like where the logic leads (I'm not sure I don't like where the logic doesn't lead either, but that's for another day). First, a little technical stuff. ...
Everything You Want To Know About China's Internet. Just Ask. (1)
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Nothing new here (near as I can tell), but nice collection of facts and figures regarding China's internet can be found on Trendspotting by going here. (h/t to China Venture News)
Recommended Reading: “The Seven Daughters of Eve” (2)
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If anybody could turn the history of genetic anthropology into a page-turner, it would be Bryan Sykes. Sykes, Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Oxford, has spent the better of part the last 25 years decoding the mystery of our species’ genetic ancestry through mitochondrial DNA analysis. He recounts his work in his 2001 book, The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science that Reveals our Genetic Ancestry. But Sykes doesn’t simply relate the ...
Utter Idiots and Why the United States Will Not Boycott the Beijing Olympics. By Dan Harris (1)
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Okay, so I didn't really write this, but I have thought this so many times in my head that somehow my thoughts must have transferred nearly 1 to 1 to this post. The post is "Utter Idiots and Why the United States Will Not Boycott the Beijing Olympics" and with two very minor variations, it conveys my thinking, exactly. The two changes are that I would use a word weaker than idiot so as to ...
Five Deserted Island China Blogs -- Just The Essentials, Ma'am. (1)
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Maybe I have been watching too much Lost (all that remains is the Season 4 finale), but in response to a barrage of demand (one email suggestion around a year ago), I have decided it is time I come out with my list of the five China blogs I would want to be able to read were I to be stranded on a deserted island for the next year or two. Now remember, this list ...
Promising China Blog: Mei-Zhong Guan-Xi (1)
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Just came across a very interesting new blog, entitled, Mei-Zhong Guan-Xi (h/t to Danwei), which accurately describes itself as follows: Analysis and translations published by an American living in Shanghai. The goal of this site is twofold. First, through translations, allow non-Chinese speakers access to editorials in China’s domestic media in order to increase understanding of the Chinese viewpoint. Second, through analysis, express my own views on certain China-related issues. On average, I will try ...
Leaders are Readers (1)
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One of my points of focus this summer has been to ramp up my reading. Mr. Jolly explains why reading is so important here. Among other books, this summer I’ve spent significant time reading: The Doctrine of the Christian Life by John M. Frame A Christology of Solidarity by William Kynes A Biography of D.L. Moody also one on Tozer and another on Billy Sunday, all by Dorsett John Adams by McCullough (I’ve read in ...
I guess this makes me one of the hounds? (1)
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Yesterday, John linked to (a slimmed down) Mike Moffatt's post on Bryan Caplan's take on negative externalities and the Pigou Club (follow that?). Caplan says:My view is that people have a right to create all sorts of negative externalities, and other people basically just have to live with them. Unhappy campers have a right to complain about the externalities, refuse to associate with those who create them, or buy a large bloc of land and ...
David Allen Blogging at Business Week: first post “Mislabeling Time Management” (1)
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David Allen, the man who created the GTD paradigm and changed millions of lives as a result is offering up another helping of his incredible insight into personal productivity. This time by way of some articles he’s writing for one of the country’s most popular business publications, Business Week. Definitely worth a read and probably worth clipping and sharing or forwarding to HR people and stressed co-workers everywhere. As an aside, if you like something ...
How To Get What You Want From The Chinese Government (1)
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Well, within limits. Bizcult has an interesting post up on the basics of lobbying the Chinese government. The post is entitled, "How to Lobby the Chinese Government," and it is based on Scott Kennedy's book The Business of Lobbying in China. According to Kennedy, Chinese policy arises from three things: 1) bargaining between elite politicians and various bureaucracies, 2) expertise provided by intellectuals that include economists, lawyers and researchers in government-sponsored research institutes, 3) National ...
Recommended Reading (1)
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Top Billing! Although it may be bad form to cite blogs I am part of here, they just happened to mesh together thematically on thinking historically on the same day. These are really good, meaty posts that complement one another well even though they come from the Left and the Right. John Jay’s post will also interest those concerned with 4GW: Progressive Historians (Jeremy Young) - Historians and the Gospel of Professionalism and Toward a ...
Government Data and the Invisible Hand (1)
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David Robinson, Harlan Yu, Bill Zeller, and I have a new paper about how to use infotech to make government more transparent. We make specific suggestions, some of them counter-intuitive, about how to make this happen. The final version of our paper will appear in the Fall issue of the Yale Journal of Law and Technology. The best way to summarize it is to quote the introduction: If the next Presidential administration really wants to ...
