February 20, 2009
Even though I know that diamonds are common and that the value of diamonds is based on false-scarcity and multi-billion-dollar global marketing campaigns, I still want to buy my future wife a big-ass Tiffany solitaire. However, diamonds are losing value like a lead brick, so even the biggest profi...
he Power 150 - Top Marketing Blogs - By Todd
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January 16, 2009
Ok, first, the link: http://www.impactlab.com/2009/01/05/robotic-rice-planter/ Now, why I think that is totally bad ass. There are several reasons this is bad ass: it's a robot, it plants rice, and it makes good economic sense. First, because it's a robot. And it's big, and it has all kinds of gnarl...
Joe Blaylock
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January 08, 2009
Obama's Hopeful Economic Speech copyright © 2009 Betsy L. Angert. BeThink.org I have a dream. I dream of a day when Americans will separate themselves from a difficult past. I dream of a time when partisan politics will not divide us. In my dream, I see a nation unit...
Be-Think [Please visit BeThink.org]
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Betsy L. Angert
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November 23, 2008
[See: Carnival Culture Index] When I Lay My Burden Down Let’s face it: travel is a wearying business. A life on the go means you get really tired and in need of rest and relaxation. For the itinerant scholar, the peripatetic performer, the nomadic herder, the man of the road and lifetime wande...
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Big Elk
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November 22, 2008
Another revolution is about to happen. A revolution that is many times in size and importance bigger than the music revolution. I call it the e-book revolution. In this moment a number of technologies are coming together: On the one side OCR technologies are reaching a level of sophistication, where...
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pietro
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July 13, 2008
Thanks, Brian! Got up early. Got my coffee. Switched on Twhirl (twitter app). Brian Kress had tweeted Seth’s post this morning on Scarity. I went over. One day, you may be lucky enough to have a scarcity problem. . . . We can learn a lot from the abysmal performance of Apple this weekend. They...
Liz Strauss at Successful Blog
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July 07, 2008
Several of the pieces we have read or will read, including Cordwainer Smith’s “Alpha Ralpha Boulevard,” make mention of free food and drink in the future: a sign, the authors suggest, of the vast economic growth between now and then. The same is true in the Star Trek universe and i...
Positive Liberty
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May 31, 2008
Why are hybrid vehicles so hard to find? My wife and I are new car shopping and have set a limit of ~30mpg as the minimum for fuel efficiency. Thing is, it's hard to find a non-hybrid that gets that unless it's small, and we've got one baby with a rear-facing seat and another planned for next year, ...
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May 08, 2008
I got an ad in my email today from NewEgg advertising the new 45nm, Hafnium-based processors from Intel. I’d never heard of Hafnium before, so I pulled up Wikipedia to see what the scoop is. It’s in the same family as Titanium, is closely related to Zirconium, and oh, by the way, we̵...
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May 06, 2008
Recently, a coaching client asked me about dealing with prospective clients over the phone. This copywriter understood the importance of communicating with prospects and answering their pre-sale questions. However, like me, he preferred to avoid the telephone and asked me if his strategy was sound. ...
The Michel Fortin Blog
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