Archive for 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 covered Goji [...]

Anglicized monikers

At service establishments in China that cater to many expat foreigners, people have name tags that read with familiar, Western names.   “Peter”, “Jill”, etc.
You know how sometimes people *look* like their names?   When the service people here have anglicized names, it is very rare that people “look” like their names.  At the front desk of [...]

Peer to Peer lending in China

Springwise just posted about a new P2P lending service that’s starting in China called “ppdai”–> http://www.ppdai.com/.   It’s wildly interesting to me how it works, as compared to p2p lending services in the Western world.
In the US, we have the concept of personal credit histories and rankings, but here in China this does not exist.  So, [...]

links for 2007-07-11

Aneel Karnani: A `poor` market
(tags: BoP poverty socialentrepreneurship)

Two Billion Slum Dwellers - Forbes.com
(tags: slum poverty BoP)



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