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PopEcon books
I wrote a review of three recent popular economics books for the Canberra Times. The review is over the fold.
CoreEconomics - Published 19 hours, 34 minutes ago
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Books review
A change is in the wind concerning the concerning price of books. The outrageous price of books in Australia is a source of inner conflict for me - on the one hand the intellectual property of authors should be protected, their work and ideas rewarded and their income should be boosted. But the cost of nourishing my [...]
Occident Prone - Published 1 day, 17 hours ago
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Creative Industries, Culture and Policy
My reason for being on leave from QUT at present is to complete a book for Sage. The book will be called Creative Industries, Culture and Policy, and is to be published in 2009. In order to solicit feedback in advance of publication, I am making draft chapters available for comment.
Terry Flew - Published 5 days, 9 hours ago
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zoomii visual amazon store
a visual bookshelf browser of over 21,000 books from Amazon's catalog. books are visualized as stacks in shelves, with covers ordered alphabetically by author & organized by genre. following the typical Google Map interaction metaphor,users can click & drag across Zoomii's landscape of shelves, zoom in & out, or select a book's cover to receive basic statistical information. [link: zoomii.com |via arstechnica.com ] see also: . Amazon book map . another Amazon book map . amaznode . oskope Amazon graphs . viewzi book view
information aesthetics - Published 5 days, 16 hours ago
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Babcock opens self-help books ahead of takeover
BABCOCK & Brown Communities will look at all possibilities to push its ailing share price closer to its underlying asset value as part of a strategic review.
Sydney Morning Herald Business - Published 6 days, 6 hours ago
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Crowdsourcing ideas for your business
I've been reading Clay Shirky's book Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organising Without Organisations . It's a modern take on the wisdom of crowds and how everything from consumer trends, political action and product development can occur by tapping into the opinions of ... everybody. Shirky says this has been made possible thanks to the fact that organising a group of people is so much easier now than ever before. You can create a Facebook group on anything from "I hate the Prime Minister" to "People against whaling" to "Bone Eddie Maguire" in a matter of minutes. So how does this relate to small business? Create a loyal following Of course, this depends on the nature of your business. For example, a staid law firm may not want to create "fans" but a groovy coffee chain might. I've created a fan page for my business on Facebook. It's an effective way to tap into an ever-growing army of Facebook users. If you do this, it's important that your "fans" find your page a valuable resource of information - not just a vehicle for you to launch a steady stream of promotional messages. Find out information for product development or ...
The Australian Enterprise - Published 6 days, 15 hours ago
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Sound Investing - 27th June 2008
In the latest edition of Sound Investing podcast, published by FundAdvice.com , Paul, Tom and Don share their insights into a range of topics including hedge funds, emerging markets and the importance of staying calm. They also interviewed Bob Deere, Dimensional's Investment Director and Senior Portfolio Manager. One warning, the radio show is 51 minutes in length and will suck up 23MB of download. If this is not an issue for you I highly recommend you take a look at the latest podcast - Sound Investing - June 27, 2008 For those who have limited time and/or download capability the following is a brief summary of the material covered: Hedge Funds The key question to ask is do you understand how they work and the internal risk involved with the strategy. They looked at a particular example where a hedge fund set up by Nobel Laureates lost 4.6 billion dollars for their investors. Bob Deere - Dimensional's Investment Director and Senior Portfolio Manager Bob discussed the main advantages of the Dimensional approach - low level of transactions and transaction costs, very highly diversified portfolios, portfolios are tilted to the dimensions of risk which provide slightly higher returns. He also discussed ...
Financial Happenings - Published 6 days, 20 hours ago
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Harvard Business Review: "consumers appetite for true blockbusters continues to grow"
The Harvard Business Review has published an article titled 'Should You Invest in the Long Tail?' that appears to go against Chris Anderson's interpretation of it in his 2006 book. Link -... To view the full story and view all our thoughts visit our blog at http://mimelbourne.blogspot.com.
A Blog About Digital Media - Published 1 week ago
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The Gold Book – Australian wine vintages is in new hands
The Gold Book, Australia’s first consumer reference book has had its first change in authorship in 29 years with Rob Geddes MW formerly of Wine Stream taking over from Robin Bradley for the 2009 edition.
Winebiz - Australias Wine Business Portal - Published 1 week ago
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Guide to Microfame
One of the most interesting trends to watch now is the way people go about building connections. There are now more connections than ever before with people building their networks through tools like Facebook , LinkedIn and MySpace . As part of that trend, people are suddenly finding themselves really well known within smaller and smaller circles. This is examined by Rex Sorgatz in his piece in the New York Magazine, The Microfame Game . "When we say "microfamous", our inclination is to imagine a smaller form of celebrity, a lower life-form striving to become a mammal--the macrofamous or suprafamous, perhaps," Sorgatz writes. "But microfame is its own distinct species of celebrity, one in which both the subject and the "fans" participate directly in the celebrity's creation. Microfame extends beyond a creator's body of work to include a community that leaves comments, publishes reaction videos, sends e-mails, and builds Internet reputations with links. "Where traditional fame was steeped in class envy on the part of the audience and alienation on the part of the celebrity, microfame closes the gap between devotee and celebrity. It feels like a step toward equality. You can become Facebook friends with the microfamous; you can ...
Leon Gettler's Management Line - Published 1 week, 2 days ago
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Pricing newsagent retail real-estate
ACP and Pacific have released new titles which leverage existing successful mastheads. Each has been provided to newsagents in a counter display unit. ACP’s Woman’s Day branded ABC of Cooking and Pacific’s Total Girl Party Book should work well at the counter. I would like to see publishers offer a premium [...]
Australian Newsagency Blog - Published 1 week, 3 days ago
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Transport & Infrastructure - What's New
Design for bushfire to be included as a normal part of designing in bushfire-prone areas is encouraged by this book. It will assist planning and building regulatory authorities to improve and administer regulatory requirements and guidelines.
CSIRO Transport & Infrastructure - Published 1 week, 3 days ago
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Media release: Scholar and lawyer tackles the big issues: Globalisation and the ...
A thought-provoking new book from an Australian lawyer aims to answer the question of whether globalisation is good or bad for the law. The book, Globalisation and the Western Legal Tradition, published by Cambridge University Press, was launched in Sydney last night by High Court Justice the Honourable Michael Kirby, who said the book should be compulsory reading in all Australian law schools.
Deacons media releases - Published 1 week, 5 days ago
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Rebooting Democracy – Newt Gingrich
One of the more substantive outputs of the PDF2008 Conference was a volume of essays compiled by the organisers titled 'Rebooting Democracy' (available online here). In contributing to the book, authors were asked to respond to the following statement: When the Framers met in Philadelphia in 1787, they bravely conjured a ...
Tree of Knowledge - Published 1 week, 5 days ago
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A Web of Australia LiteratureAustralia literature trapped in the web
On my travels through Greece recently, I met Australian Joan London. As I had just came from Turkey, she mentioned she had written a book touching on Armenia. It was not until then, I realized this was the Australian author of Gilgamesh (2001), which the UK The Guardian gave a very favorable review of. In the first posting of his new, and very insightful, Canberra Times Blog, Colin Steele
Net Traveller Tom Worthington - Published 1 week, 5 days ago
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