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Hot trends for April 27, 2008
Google trends and inflation talk (Express India)
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:51:04 PDT
Viral Shah pointed me to this example of Google trends being useful in thinking about price fluctuations.
Police Gear and Stellar Boots
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:24:44 PDT
0 | News, Blogging, Family, Rants, Safety You may have heard about this already, but New York Sun columnist and author of the blog Free Range Kids, Lenore Skenazy, is definately America’s Worst Mom. In the newsweek article it explains how, after admitting to letting her 8 year old son ride the subway by himself, Skenazy was labelled a horrible mother with no concern for her child’s safety by the psychopath’s that bandage scraped knees with horse hair suchors and do more damage to their child
Splendid Reads for April 28th!
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:49:01 PDT
SHOPPING Wardrobe Oxygen offers some wardrobe alternatives to the less-than-flattering pieces in your closet. My Wardrobe Today reviews Clinique cosmetics and skincare. eye4style shops jewelry designer Philip Crangi’s limited edition collection for The Gap. STYLEnosh spends quality time with online shoe stores. BEAUTY Aging Fabulous tells you about anti-aging the natural way. TheScentedLife has a craft crush on Disquieting Designs. Raging Rouge is officially addicted to Treat O’my Goodnes
Nonfiction Campaign: Can Errol Morris's "Standard Operating Procedure" Break the Political Doc Deadlock?
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:58:16 PDT
by Anthony Kaufman (April 27, 2008) Election years are typically strong for political documentaries. Capitalizing on citizens' hunger for issues that the mainstream media is either ignoring or mishandling, audiences flock to theaters to get a deeper sense of what's going on in the world. At least that was the thinking in 2004, with the blockbuster sales of "Fahrenheit 9/11" and also given the multi-million-dollar grosses of "The Fog of War," "Control Room," "Super Size Me," and "The Corporation
"The return of the global intellectuals poll"
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:02:19 PDT
The return of the global intellectuals poll Published by Tom Nuttall on April 21, 2008 in Inside the magazine. 5 Comments Three years ago, you may recall, we teamed up with Foreign Policy magazine to produce a list of the world’s top 100 public intellectuals and to ask our readers to vote for their top five. This year we’re repeating the exercise, with a new list that we believe better reflects the current trends in global thought. We’ve tried to spruce up the list this time around by cle
Weekly Wrapup, 21-25 April 2008
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:11:43 PDT
This week was a hectic one, with a number of RWW writers present at the annual Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. The big Internet news of the week was the launch of Microsoft's Live Mesh. Yahoo also announced key support for Social Graph and data portability. In social networking news, MySpace officially opened its Application Gallery to all users. In our web trends coverage, Sarah analyzed a Forrester report that claimed Enterprise 2.0 will become a $4.6 Billion industry by 2013, Marshall looked
Countrywide CEO Made $10.8 Million, Cashed Out More Than $120 Million in Stock in 2007, According to SEC (Multi-Housing News)
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:12:53 PDT
Multi-Housing News is the only real estate magazine that covers the multi-housing industry thoroughly, from multifamily trends to Residential Real Estate News. Multi-Housing News sets itself apart from competitive publications by its sheer devotion to the Multi-Housing industry and Residential Real Estate building industry.
Short and long-term impact of meditation on mind and brain
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:15:15 PDT
Vaughan at Mind Hacks collects and comments on couple of review articles on the neuroscience of meditation: This month’s Trends in Cognitive Sciences has a fantastic review article on the neuroscience of meditation - focusing on how the contemplative practice alters and sharpens the brain’s attention systems. The full article is available online as a pdf, and discusses what cognitive science studies have told us about the short and long-term impact of meditation on the mind and brain. … A
There's a World Beyond Twitter; CenterNetworks Declares Twitter Free Week
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:17:34 PDT
It seems today you can't turn to any tech blog without numerous mentions of Twitter. There are so many other great startups out there that aren't Twitter-related that have been overlooked because of this apparent train that everyone's on headed for Twitterville. To that end, I've declared Twitter-free week on CenterNetworks. There will be no Twitter posts this week. This includes Twitter and clients of Twitter. If Twitter is acquired by Google for the estimated $2 billion this week, you will n
Good news, bad news for the US church
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:24:34 PDT
The Christian Century has some bad news for the US church. . . Every year about 3,700 churches close their doors in the US. That’s one in one hundred churches. That makes 3,700 new churches required each year in the US just to maintain the status quo—if you forget about population growth. Now for the good news — a 1% mortality rate is pretty good for an institution. Rates of closure for secular organizations are higher. The bad news? This doesn’t mean that the church population is particul
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Hot Trends | Trends | Current News | Breaking News
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:51:04 PDT
Viral Shah pointed me to this example of Google trends being useful in thinking about price fluctuations.
Police Gear and Stellar Boots
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:24:44 PDT
0 | News, Blogging, Family, Rants, Safety You may have heard about this already, but New York Sun columnist and author of the blog Free Range Kids, Lenore Skenazy, is definately America’s Worst Mom. In the newsweek article it explains how, after admitting to letting her 8 year old son ride the subway by himself, Skenazy was labelled a horrible mother with no concern for her child’s safety by the psychopath’s that bandage scraped knees with horse hair suchors and do more damage to their child
Splendid Reads for April 28th!
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:49:01 PDT
SHOPPING Wardrobe Oxygen offers some wardrobe alternatives to the less-than-flattering pieces in your closet. My Wardrobe Today reviews Clinique cosmetics and skincare. eye4style shops jewelry designer Philip Crangi’s limited edition collection for The Gap. STYLEnosh spends quality time with online shoe stores. BEAUTY Aging Fabulous tells you about anti-aging the natural way. TheScentedLife has a craft crush on Disquieting Designs. Raging Rouge is officially addicted to Treat O’my Goodnes
Nonfiction Campaign: Can Errol Morris's "Standard Operating Procedure" Break the Political Doc Deadlock?
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:58:16 PDT
by Anthony Kaufman (April 27, 2008) Election years are typically strong for political documentaries. Capitalizing on citizens' hunger for issues that the mainstream media is either ignoring or mishandling, audiences flock to theaters to get a deeper sense of what's going on in the world. At least that was the thinking in 2004, with the blockbuster sales of "Fahrenheit 9/11" and also given the multi-million-dollar grosses of "The Fog of War," "Control Room," "Super Size Me," and "The Corporation
"The return of the global intellectuals poll"
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:02:19 PDT
The return of the global intellectuals poll Published by Tom Nuttall on April 21, 2008 in Inside the magazine. 5 Comments Three years ago, you may recall, we teamed up with Foreign Policy magazine to produce a list of the world’s top 100 public intellectuals and to ask our readers to vote for their top five. This year we’re repeating the exercise, with a new list that we believe better reflects the current trends in global thought. We’ve tried to spruce up the list this time around by cle
Weekly Wrapup, 21-25 April 2008
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:11:43 PDT
This week was a hectic one, with a number of RWW writers present at the annual Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. The big Internet news of the week was the launch of Microsoft's Live Mesh. Yahoo also announced key support for Social Graph and data portability. In social networking news, MySpace officially opened its Application Gallery to all users. In our web trends coverage, Sarah analyzed a Forrester report that claimed Enterprise 2.0 will become a $4.6 Billion industry by 2013, Marshall looked
Countrywide CEO Made $10.8 Million, Cashed Out More Than $120 Million in Stock in 2007, According to SEC (Multi-Housing News)
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:12:53 PDT
Multi-Housing News is the only real estate magazine that covers the multi-housing industry thoroughly, from multifamily trends to Residential Real Estate News. Multi-Housing News sets itself apart from competitive publications by its sheer devotion to the Multi-Housing industry and Residential Real Estate building industry.
Short and long-term impact of meditation on mind and brain
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:15:15 PDT
Vaughan at Mind Hacks collects and comments on couple of review articles on the neuroscience of meditation: This month’s Trends in Cognitive Sciences has a fantastic review article on the neuroscience of meditation - focusing on how the contemplative practice alters and sharpens the brain’s attention systems. The full article is available online as a pdf, and discusses what cognitive science studies have told us about the short and long-term impact of meditation on the mind and brain. … A
There's a World Beyond Twitter; CenterNetworks Declares Twitter Free Week
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:17:34 PDT
It seems today you can't turn to any tech blog without numerous mentions of Twitter. There are so many other great startups out there that aren't Twitter-related that have been overlooked because of this apparent train that everyone's on headed for Twitterville. To that end, I've declared Twitter-free week on CenterNetworks. There will be no Twitter posts this week. This includes Twitter and clients of Twitter. If Twitter is acquired by Google for the estimated $2 billion this week, you will n
Good news, bad news for the US church
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:24:34 PDT
The Christian Century has some bad news for the US church. . . Every year about 3,700 churches close their doors in the US. That’s one in one hundred churches. That makes 3,700 new churches required each year in the US just to maintain the status quo—if you forget about population growth. Now for the good news — a 1% mortality rate is pretty good for an institution. Rates of closure for secular organizations are higher. The bad news? This doesn’t mean that the church population is particul
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