Thought For The Day: …successful cities, unlike biological organisms, actually get faster as they grow. In order to grow bigger and overcome diseconomies of scale like congestion and rising housing and business costs, cities must become more efficient, innovative, and productive. -Richard Florida
- Finding a Job With Twitter
Sensible advice for an emerging new channel.
- 140 CHARACTERS
Useful blog and Twitter Style Guide.
- Meltdown Geography
The University of Chicago economist and Nobel laureate Robert Lucas declared that the spillovers in knowledge that result from talent-clustering are the main cause of economic growth. Well-educated professionals and creative workers who live together in dense ecosystems, interacting directly, generate ideas and turn them into products and services faster than talented people in other places can. There is no evidence that globalization or the Internet has changed that. Indeed, as globalization has increased the financial return on innovation by widening the consumer market, the pull of innovative places, already dense with highly talented workers, has only grown stronger, creating a snowball effect. Talent-rich ecosystems are not easy to replicate, and to realize their full economic value, talented and ambitious people increasingly need to live within them. (See also The World is Spiky pdf)
- Podcasting is Dead?
Not so.
- When to quit your blog, and things you can do to try and save it
It takes time to establish a blog. I’ve always put the figure at 6-9 months before you know whether it’s going to really work or not, based on the time it takes you to build links, traffic, a strong presence in Google, longtail content and more. Others, such as Jason Calacanis, CEO of Mahalo and founder of the Weblogs Inc blog network puts the figure at 2 years.
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