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Links for 9/21/09

By Wise Elephant • Sep 21st, 2009

Links for 9/21/09
Social Capital as part of GDP? (Social Capital Blog): French President Sarkozy’s blue-chip Commission recommends measuring social capital. LINK
World’s ten greatest large urban parks (Infrastructurist): Everyone knows what a urban park looks like, right? LINK
Dell Expands Services in $3.9 Billion Perot Deal (NYTimes): Dell, seeking growth, moves away from hardware and into people-power. [...]



Links for 9/18/09

By Wise Elephant • Sep 18th, 2009

Links for 9/18/09
The Frankencamera (via Paul M. Watson): an open-source (code and hardware design) digital camera from Stanford. LINK
Weekend Reading – The Seeds of the Next Boom? (Total Rewards Blog): The Wall Street Journal
has a great article that discusses one of the positive impacts of the implosion of Wall Street and the so-called Great Recession [...]



Links for 9/17/09

By Wise Elephant • Sep 17th, 2009

Links for 9/17/09
Find Opportunity in Adversity (Center for Creative Leadership): 9 bullet-points to help ease the transition into the post-recession economy. LINK
Value of Arts and Culture Redefined – Video (Creatively Curious): John Holden (formerly of Demos) describes the expanding and interrelated reach of arts and culture… LINK
Funding Photojournalism in the Future (Gizmotastic): Thoughts on The [...]



Links for 9/16/09

By Wise Elephant • Sep 16th, 2009

Links for 9/16/09
Love is the new black (via so-fauxreal.com): Simple poster with text. LINK
Walkability: Measuring Urban Quality of Life (via Downtown Suites News- Vancouver): This web-based tool allows you to assign a walkable score to a residence, in order to gauge quality-of-life:  LINK
Whuffie Bank (Uniquely the Epitome): A nonprofit organization dedicated to building a new [...]



Links for 9/15/09

By Wise Elephant • Sep 15th, 2009

We’re going to start posting (mostly) daily links of articles/posts/findings we’re either reading or thought were worth noting. These used to go into our “Shorts” section within our sidebar, but we’re going to try fitting them into one daily post.