links for 2009-03-10

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[/ BEVOdesign / print and webdesign by Ben Voos](http://zoomism.com/) A very cool portfolio site using a zooming interface. (tags: [interface](http://delicious.com/ddeery/interface) [zoom](http://delicious.com/ddeery/zoom) [zui](http://delicious.com/ddeery/zui)) [Zoomii.com - The "Real" Online Bookstore](http://zoomii.com/#) A cool online bookstore with some of the feel of a real bookstore. (tags: [book](http://delicious.com/ddeery/book))


links for 2009-03-05

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Acquia Drupal | Acquia A pre-built installation of Drupal with common modules included. (tags: drupal)


links for 2009-02-23

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The Places We Live An amazing site showing slums around the world. An incredible reminder of how fortunate we are, and how much more we need to be doing. (tags: poverty slums storytelling)


Rebuild or Redesign?

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Hey, did you hear our economy is collapsing? Oh, what’s that, you haven’t heard anything BUT that? I figured it’s high time for a little bandwagon jumping. Everyone on the web has an opinion, so I’m not going to be left out. But I’m going to start with one stipulation. I contend, and I would hope you’d agree, that nobody really knows how the global economy works. Sure, there are lots of theories, and everyone’s got a favorite.


Nothing Gray Here

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February in Wisconsin can tend to be quite a long month. We’ve all generally reached our limit in putting up with the cold weather. Things are usually at their grayest as we see some thawing and lose our snow cover. And winter usually works up a snow storm or extra-hard cold snap to remind us that she’s not quite done. Well this February has had all of that. And as our first real winter weather in two years, it’s been a hard go.


Not Such a SMARTT Idea

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The Eau Claire Area Economic Development Corporation on November 25, 2008 launched a new web site called the SMARTT Network. SMARTT stands for Strategy for Marketing and Recruiting Top Talent. I’m sorry to say, two months on, it looks to me like this was a bad idea and unfortunately fairly poorly implemented. So what does SMARTT do? The idea is to provide an “online network that connects talent to career, business and technology-based opportunities in western Wisconsin.


Get That Man a Job!

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David Jones recently lost his job. He quickly sat down and wrote a book about his experiences. A friend of ours, the ever-sunny Maryrose Lyons of Brightspark Consulting in Dublin, heard David talking about his book on the radio. She decided to tap her network to create a web site and marketing push for David and his book - in a week! A web designer, web developer, artist, photographer and several marketing folks all came together to pull off this project.


Listen to the "Black Swan" Guy

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a former stock trader and now author of a couple of great books - Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan. I’ve read both books and they’re guaranteed to make you think. They’re especially timely in their discussion of how the stock markets work, or really, don’t work. Taleb recently did an interview with the Times Online where he discusses his books and his approach to life.


links for 2009-02-16

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[ZoomProspector - Search best communities for business](http://www.zoomprospector.com/) Quickly find demographic and business information for any community. (tags: [property](http://delicious.com/ddeery/property) [economics](http://delicious.com/ddeery/economics)) [OnTheCommons.org](http://www.onthecommons.org/) A great site discussing the idea of the public commons. (tags: [commons](http://delicious.com/ddeery/commons) [copyright](http://delicious.com/ddeery/copyright) [cooperation](http://delicious.com/ddeery/cooperation)) [Font Generator](http://www.yourfonts.com/) Create a computer font of your very own handwriting. (tags: [handwriting](http://delicious.com/ddeery/handwriting) [typography](http://delicious.com/ddeery/typography) [fonts](http://delicious.com/ddeery/fonts)) [Sketchory](http://sketchory.com/) A collection of 250,000 Creative Commons-licensed sketches. (tags: [sketches](http://delicious.com/ddeery/sketches) [drawing](http://delicious.com/ddeery/drawing) [creativecommons](http://delicious.com/ddeery/creativecommons))


links for 2009-02-13

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[BeFunky.com - Photo effects with one click, Turn your photos into artwork.](http://www.befunky.com/) Cool site to convert your photos into various forms of artwork. Automated and easy-to-use versions of Photoshop filters. (tags: [avatar](http://delicious.com/ddeery/avatar) [photo](http://delicious.com/ddeery/photo) [photoshop](http://delicious.com/ddeery/photoshop)) [SpokenWord.org](http://www.spokenword.org/) A new web site that aggregates free spoken word recordings from around the web. Includes audio books, presentations, etc. (tags: [podcasts](http://delicious.com/ddeery/podcasts) [speech](http://delicious.com/ddeery/speech) [audio](http://delicious.com/ddeery/audio))