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Month: July, 2007

links for 2007-07-31

Finding That ‘Sweet Spot’: A New Way to Drive Innovation – Knowledge@Wharton (tags: innovation Knowledge Wharton) Innovation Means Understanding Value – CS – In Focus (tags: innovation value humancentered design interaction) The Next Cultural Revolution – China – Chinese Creative Class – Ziyi Zhang (tags: China creativity innovation design)

Why the world needs better design

To prevent this, that I read in the Week magazine: Good Week For Justice, after police in Hanover, Germany, refused to press charges against a man who was struggling with a balky computer late at night and hurled it out the window, causing a loud crash that woke some of his neighbors. “Who hasn’t felt [...]

links for 2007-07-25

The Best Product Design Of 2007 (tags: design innovation businessweek IIT InstituteOfDesign) Read what matters – AideRSS (tags: AttentionEconomy rss aggregator productivity news web2.0)

links for 2007-07-16

Institute for Applied Ecology (tags: writing scientific paper whitepaper) Scientific Paper (tags: paper whitepaper scientific) How to Write A Paper in Scientific Journal Style and Format: Table of Contents Bates College (tags: Writing research paper scientific howto) Energy for China | Economist.com (tags: china energy economics)

Check out some of the stormy comments on this article

Apparently the topic has the tendency to get people all fired up. I’ve noticed lately that a lot of online BusinessWeek articles do. Wowzers.

links for 2007-07-15

Twenty Countries to Consider (tags: Statistics Business Economy Research)

I’m glad I saw it before it closed

Oh yeah. There’s a Starbucks in the Forbidden City Originally uploaded by quami77 Christine sent me this article that observes the Starbucks in Forbidden city is now closed to the many visitors of the Palace Museum. Not really sure how I feel about that, or if I even have the right to have an opinion [...]

I’m just trying to book a flight, Jeez.

Please choose you feel quite the cheese in turn the city Originally uploaded by quami77 There’s no need to be rude and call me quite the cheese. Also, I dont know what the Hanzi says, but may Lord have mercy on your soul when I find out, suckers! Not sure if I’m still going to [...]

links for 2007-07-14

Broken China (tags: china global)

links for 2007-07-13

Qualitative research software (tags: qualitative research software)

Aha! I knew it.

See, I told you Beijing is ridiculously polluted and it makes me miserable. I have proof now. Kevin sent me this article today: “For Athletes, an Invisible Traffic Hazard” I feel really awful for those Olympic runners. I wonder why they would ever decide to have the games held there, of all places.

Why CEOs shouldn’t have access to teh interweb.

Hahahahhahahahhahaha. As a consumer, I respect Whole Foods’ offerings and triple bottom line mentality.   I always thought very highly of their CEO, John Mackey.  That is, until I read this hilarious post this morning. Sorry man, but we all already love your company (except for the exorbitant prices on most of your products, e.g. chocolate [...]

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