What would happen if aid organizations and other philanthropists embraced the dark arts of marketing spin and psychological persuasion used on Madison Avenue? We’d save millions more lives. By Nicholas D. Kristof | Outside Online | December 2009 In 2004, I visited the Darfur area three times, trying to bear witness to the slaughter of [...]
GIZMODO | By Wilson Rothman | December 7, 2009 A Two-Horse Race Do this now: Disregard all other ebook readers on the market besides Nook and Kindle. Unless you plan to get all of your books from back-alley torrents, or stick to self-published and out-of-copyright PDFs, you are going to need a reader with a good content-delivery [...]
Twitter couldn’t. Google couldn’t … By Farhad ManjooPosted Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009, at 5:20 PM ET Nearly a year ago—in the course of cajoling people into joining the ubiquitous social network—I marveled at Facebook’s astonishing growth rate: The site had just signed up its 150 millionth member, and about 370,000 people were joining every day. [...]
By Wendy Koch, USA TODAY, December 4, 2009 The home building industry is struggling, but one sector is booming: green homes. The number of homes winning the government’s Energy Star designation since the program began in 1995 has crossed the 1 million mark. Despite an overall housing slump, 75,000 have been added so far this [...]
By Anthony B. Robinson A gathering tonight on Phinney Ridge goes beyond ecumenical, or even most interfaith services. It’s a true celebration of Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, and Islamic beliefs. Different churches joining together for a community Thanksgiving Eve or Day service is nothing new. For a long time now the Methodists, Presbyterians, and Lutherans along [...]
By Eric Mortenson, The Oregonian November 24, 2009, 9:45AM [The Oregonian/2004] Is Portland better off not being a “global” city?Here’s an interesting take on why Portland remains a livable, attractive city. Forget about progressive land-use policies or green lifestyles. Turns out we’re not globally important enough to have an elite that drives out the middle [...]