Tag: Facebook
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Demography Links
1. New York Times: Why Are Americans Staying Put? … “This decline in migration has been going on for a long time now, through all sorts of ups and downs in the housing market,” said Greg Kaplan of Princeton University, who, along with Sam Schulhofer-Wohl of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, has studied the…
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Saturday Links
1. Mark Buchanan asks Is Economics a Science or a Religion? 2. Poverty has moved to the suburbs I don't think this should be seen as necessarily a bad thing. A few decades ago, the idea was to "warehouse" the poor in large urban complexes. There has been an intentional effort at dispersal through various…
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Saturday Links
1. The Atlantic says Just 27% of BA's Have Jobs Related to Their Major? Don't Believe the Fed's New Stat 2. 100 fastest growing inner city businesses From a pet relocation service, a wine lifestyle marketer, to a scrap metal regenerator, America's urban core is home to a variety of fast-growing companies. Here's the top…
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Saturday Links
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1. Atlantic: Could Earth's Population Peak in 2050? "For the past two decades, demographers have generally agreed that global population growth will continue to inch steadily higher in the coming century, raising concerns about everything from pollution to housing to the world's water supply. But a new study out of Spain suggests those estimates may…
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Saturday Links
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in Business, Christian Life, Crime, Culture, Current Affairs, Demography, Ecclesia, Environment, Europe, Gender and Sex, Health and Medicine, International Affairs, Links – Saturday, Music, Politics, Poverty, Public Policy, Religion, Science, Social Media, Sports and Entertainment, Technology (Biotech & Health), Technology (Digital, Telecom, & Internet), Technology (Energy)(Like the Kruse Kronicle on Facebook if you want links to daily posts to appear in your Facebook feed.) 1. Several articles I saw this week reflect on data presented in The Pew Forum's The Global Religious Landscape: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World's Major Religious Groups as of 2010. Here…
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Is Facebook Killing Holiday Photo Cards?
Time: Why I’ve Stopped Sending Holiday Photo Cards "… I didn’t know it then but my world, my social world, was changing. Today, my 1,500 Facebook friends — 1,300 of whom I have never actually met—have already seen the best of the year’s haul of pictures of my kids. They also know where I’ve gone…
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Saturday Links
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in Business, Christian Life, Demography, Economic Development, Economic News, Economics, Education, Gender and Sex, Health and Medicine, History, Links – Saturday, Politics, Social Media, Sociology, Technology (Biotech & Health), Technology (Digital, Telecom, & Internet), Technology (Manufacturing & Construction))Like the Kruse Kronicle on Facebook if you want links to daily posts to appear in your Facebook feed. Here are this week’s Saturday links. 1. To celebrate the Christmas season, Deck the Halls with Macro Follies 2. The Explosion of 15th Century Printing: A Data Visualization “… Drawing on data from the [Harvard] university’s…
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How Facebook and Twitter Are Making Developing World Cities Better
Atlantic Cities: How Facebook and Twitter Are Making Developing World Cities Better … In Latin America, Mexico City is not unique. Use of social media is growing at a breathtaking pace across the region. When Facebook passed the 1 billion user mark in October, few people noticed that 19 percent of those users live in…
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The Definitive-ish Guide for Using Social Media in the Church – Book Review
How can my Church effectively use social media? Which social media services should my Church use? Aren’t we opening our congregation to abuse if we venture into social media? I’ve been blogging for seven years, and because of that, I frequently get questions like these from pastors and congregation leaders. I can offer some help,…
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Saturday Links
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in Christian Life, Crime, Gender and Sex, History, Links – Saturday, Politics, Poverty, Public Policy, Science, Social Media, Sports and Entertainment, Technology, Technology (Digital, Telecom, & Internet), Technology (Energy), Technology (Manufacturing & Construction)), Trends: Economic, Trends: Social, Weatlh and Income DistributionI spend considerable time scanning headlines each week as I look for stories to blog about at the Kruse Kronicle. I clip them into an Evernote Notebook and usually twice a day, I select one or two to link and discuss. Several interesting stories never make it onto the blog. So this week, I’m beginning…