Christian Artists, Global Talent and What Your Global Neighbors are Buying

Top 10 Classic Christian Artists You (Probably) Haven't Listened
BeliefNet

The Global Talent Crisis
BusinessWeek
In today's complex environment, a strategy for attracting skilled people is as critical as a marketing or finance strategy

"What your global neighbors are buying" - Superb interactive graph at NY Times
from BoingBoing

Wise answers to old wives' tales
MSNBC
The truth behind the most popular (and persistent) health rumors

Bright Side of a Total Financial Market Collapse: Michael Lewis
Bloomberg

How to Never Forget Anything Again
The post shows the four key habits for maintaining a comprehensive system for all your information and tasks

Crisis Casualties Out Looking For Jobs
Forbes.com

Free Stuff, a Depression and not so Golden Goosesssss

How To Get Cool Stuff For Free
Forbes

You Call this a Depression?
Despite parallels with the early 1930s, to use the D word now would be total overkill.
NewsWeek

The Golden State's not-so-golden goose: Socially responsible investment plan has cost state pension funds billions
MSNBC

Southwest, the NT, Banking and Lending, ChristianBlog, the Olympics and Aging

Southwest's 7 secrets for success . . . The airline stays profitable by keeping things simple
from MSNBC

Scholars will piece together oldest copy of New Testament online
USAToday

Stoooopid .... why the Google generation isn’t as smart as it thinks
The digital age is destroying us by ruining our ability to concentrate
TimesOnline

How To Demolish A Skyscraper One Floor At A Time
Freshome

Banking On Demand Destruction
How can you make good news out of bad news? The answer is demand destruction.
Forbes

The Government Did It
There has been no free market in housing or finance. Government has long exercised massive control over the housing and financial markets--including its creation of Fannie Mae (nyse: FNM - news - people ) and Freddie Mac (nyse: FRE - news - people ) (which have now amassed $5 trillion in liabilities)--leading to many of the problems being blamed on the free market today.
Forbes

Killing Jobs to Save the Climate?
European emission permits are getting so pricey, German companies are threatening to leave the country. Thousands of jobs could be lost:
BusinessWeek

ChristianBlog.com
ChristianBlog.Com is devoted to providing an easy to use Christian Blog, and be a gathering place, for Christians from around the world!

Tor.Com
Tor.com: a blog, a social network, a zine -- totally clueful big publishing website
BoingBoing

NBC Bejing 2008
the Comprehensive Site

How Our Bodies Age (And What You Can Do About It)
WashingtonPost.com

MPG, the economy, Beverly Hills Oil, Gates and free alternatives

Study: MPG ratings misleading to average consumer
from USAToday

A Skeptical Take on the Economy
Best-selling author Keith McFarland argues against getting overly concerned about the bad economy
BusinessWeek

Oil in Beverly Hills `Humming' Where Britney Shops
Bloomberg

You may be driving up the price of oil
Workers with retirement savings could affect energy costs
from MSNBC

So Long, Bill Gates, and Thanks for the Monopoly
from Wired

George F. Will: Send us your poor -- but keep your talent

10 free alternatives to popular, pricey programs
CyberSpeak from Kim Komando

Farming, Popcorn Economics, Pork and Ning

U.S. tobacco farming is bigger than ever
from MSNBC Overseas demand offsets end of price supports, fewer domestic smokers

U.S. tobacco farming is bigger than ever
from MSNBC Overseas demand offsets end of price supports, fewer domestic smokers

Rising costs lead farmers to go high tech
from USAToday

Popcorn and Other Pricing Puzzles
BusinessWeek

Friend Connect, Open Social, Ning, and the web
BlogPmarca.com and Mark Andreessen

Google Maps, Water, Interfaces, Cutting Costs

Zoom and Go on Google Maps
from Google Maps Mania

Peak Water: Aquifers and Rivers Are Running Dry. How Three Regions Are Coping
from Wired News

History’s 5 Best Interface Designs
from Wired Blog Network

Cutting Costs with Online Coupon Sites
from Business Week

(Really) Stunning Pictures and Photos
from Smashing Magazine

Oprah, Housing and Transportation Costs, Google Maps,George Will and Safe Cars

Oprah Winfrey, Eckhart Tolle: Is Oprah Starting Her Own Cult?
from ReligionNewsBlog

Housing prices map with transport costs included
from boingboing

Housing + Transportation Affordability Index
from CNT

Google Maps Satellite Imagery Update
from Google Maps Mania

George Will: Looking down a liberal's nose

Vehicles: Best Life-Saving Car Safety Features
from Forbes.com

2008 Hyundai Sonata
from USNews & World Report

Buying Dinner by the Case
from BusinessWeek . . . As food prices spike, shoppers are flocking to discount stores. So why aren't those chains' profits benefiting?

Free Stuff, ESV, Interviews, Happiness and Spirituality, 12 step, Faith Teaching, Online Lives

The Web's best free stuff
from InfoWorld

Theological reasons for why Mars Hill preaches out of the ESV

Seven Things You Must Do in an Interview
from BusinessWeek

Spirituality and happiness: are they connected?
from Beliefnet

Ad Track: Big red umbrella returns
from USAToday

Birth of Newspapers, part 1: The very first newspaper
from Mark Andreessen

Are conservatives really happier?
from BeliefNet

Glenn Beck: America needs a 12-step program
from CNN.com

One Place for Your Many Online Lives
from BusinessWeek . . . FriendFeed is tearing down the walls between Web haunts such as Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, etc.

Religious teaching straight to your iPod
from USAToday

Low taxes 'boost public sector'
from BBCNews . . . Countries with low taxes are better able to boost funding for public services and enjoy higher growth, a report from a UK think tank suggests.

The accurate, authentic, verifiable list of the . . .
top 25 christian websites

Dial D for Disruption
from Forbes.com
Want to build a phone company for $100? Give Mark Spencer a ring.

National Geographic: photos from spring

Blogs, Ministry, the young, Westerns, GetReligion, Mary, a great place to work

The Life Cycle of a Blog Post, From Servers to Spiders to Suits — to You
from Wired Magazine

Getting Ministry Traction Instead of Just Spinning Your Wheels
SermonCentral.com

ReligionNewsBlog: Older generations mourn as young Hispanics turn away from the Catholic Church.

Top Ten Most Inspiring Modern Westerns!
Idol Chatter, a religion and pop culture blog

Happy Birthday GetReligion.org

Ed Young: How to Make Leaders Out of Lackluster Followers
from MondayMorningInsight

Devotion to Her has long been a Controversial Affair
Behind the cult of Mary from US News & World Report

Creating a Great Place to Work
Griffin Hospital created an award-winning work environment by honoring its commitment to open communication. A BusinessWeek columnist explains how.

Astonishing Societe Generale transcripts emerge...
from Mark Andreessen's Blog.PMarca.com

Top 12 Evangelical Christians in Sports Today
BeliefNet

Boredom, Getting Stuff Done, Life, Senior, Soap and Capitalism

6 Effective Ways to Combat Boredom!
WHY is the vast majority of content which becomes “popular” on social networking platforms (like Digg, Stumble and Propeller) inherently negative, fear-inducing and purpose-less in nature?

7 Powerful Steps to Overcoming Resistance and Actually Getting Stuff Done
from ZenHabits

London's French Foreign Legion Shuns Sarkozy Plea to Come Home
from Bloomberg.com

CCM Magazine transitions to online-only format
Nashville Business Journal

Custom-Building a Life
BusinessWeek . . .Jeff Weinstein's burger joint has taken off, but he has struggled to balance life and the job. Then he hit on a work-in-progress solution.

More employers seek out seniors
MSNBC Growing list of companies see benefits of hiring people 50 and up

Steve Blank's Secret History of Silicon Valley
Now it's getting fun...
Massive fraud by a rogue trader at Societe Generale SA has led to a €4.9 billion ($7.16 billion) [loss]...
both from Mark Andreessen's blog BLOG.PHARMA.com

Why Some People Are Happier Than Others
from BeliefNet

P&G: Using the Past to Invent the Future
in BusinessWeek: In this excerpt from Roger Martin's new book, he discusses how P&G's A.G. Lafley balanced experience

from BoingBoing: Mathematics of waiting for the bus

CBS Adds On-Demand Music To Last.fm
from Forbes.com

Gates misses the point on 'creative capitalism'
from cdnet

BusinessWeek Tech: Let Us Serve You
Web services are now so cheap and plentiful you may never buy software again

Internet College and Lending, IT, BW Picks, Razors, Web 2.0 and a Young Cowboy

Internet Opens Elite Colleges to All

Web Empowers Person-to-Person Lending Around the World

Tom Davenport: IT's Wonderful Life
What would our personal and professional lives be like without technology? The world would be a different—and poorer—place

BusinessWeek's top predictions for the coming year

Study: Cellphone users tie up traffic

Online Sites Offer Peek Into The Past

Internet opens elite college materials to all

The Zen of Shaving: How a Double-edge Razor Can Change Your Life

2008: Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn’t Live Without

Aspiring radio talkers take to the Web
Hosts need only a telephone and computer to create live, call-in shows

The Courage Of A Young Cowboy
As the Executive Producer of the hit series "Touched By An Angel" Martha Williamson shared a weekly INSPIRATIONAL MESSAGE of God's love.

So Much Economic Good News Amid So Little Cheer: Kevin Hassett

Holidays Done, Now Time To Detox

A Look at the Hiring Picture for Big Companies in 2008

Post-Christian, Pentecostelism, London, Denzel, Jobs, Life Lessons

'Post-Christian era'? Don't tell Third World

Pentecostelism's Growth in the Favelas

Cash-Happy London
If you haven't been to London in a while, you won't recognize it. The city hasn't seemed this alive—or expensive—in years

Denzel Washington's Ministry of Movies
The star tells us how he studies the Bible daily, prays every morning and night, and sees his films as a form of preaching.

Harvard: 'Hard' Skills Trump 'Soft' Skills
Research from Steve Kaplan and colleagues suggests investors should hire a Jack Welch or a Steve Jobs—both with tough reputations—rather than a Jeff Immelt

America's new jobs: We don't need no education, just comfort

I’m a Believer: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind.

Life Lessons
When Harvard social scientist Robert Putnam was recently researching America's challenge in forging a common identity amid demographic diversity, he visited fast-growing Protestant churches--and was surprised by what he found.

Aboard the Swedish Icebreaker Oden

LED, Cycles, Heros, Joel and Ted, Gospel and Laptops

Philips and Taking on the Lighting World
from BusinessWeek

Computer World and the Best of Management

The Art of the Deal
How the Nahmad family made billions trading art, and why so many people in the art world can't stand them.

Words To Retire

Purists in America Find St. Andrews in Pacific Mist of Oregon
from Bloomber.com

Flickr Debuts Online Image Editor

The 20 Most Important Questions in Business
What entrepreneurs can do is ask the core set of tough questions that govern the fate of any enterprise.

Super Cycles or Hooligan Chic
Celebrities and corporate moguls are fueling the boom in custom motorcycles--and creating a new subculture of fierce collectibles.

More Willowcreek Revealsqueal
from MondayMorning

Unsung Heroes of the Computer World

Predatory Lending
The bill tells lenders they may not engage in the undefined practice of "predatory lending"--examples of which include vague offenses such as offering loans that are not "solely in the best interest of the consumer" or offering loans that a borrower does not have a "reasonable ability to repay."

Turning Business Ed on It's Head
from BusinessWeek

Strategic Digital Outreach
Frank Johnson . . . 'I believe that the internet provides today's church with a historic opportunity .... to tell the old, old story of Jesus and His love in ways which could only have been imagined in times past. The objective of this website is to explore the various ways in which today's technology can be used to spread the gospel around the world.'

Google Announces Fastest Growing Search Terms
from TechCrunch

Joel Osteen
If the evangelical world is looking for a poster child to offset the negative publicity surrounding rich televangelists, Joel Osteen would be a good choice.

Ted Turner as Rancher or is He Taking Over the Land
from MSNBC

Along the Route from Communism
The fall of the Berlin Wall 18 years ago symbolized the beginning of a transition from communist central planning to market democracy in some 25 countries--many of them new states. from Forbes

20/20 Vision on 70/70
from Forbes

Technology and the New Workers
from Forbes

Judas Gospel and the Gospel Truth

Big Tech and Older Folks
There were more Internet users age 55 and up than there were age 18 to 34 in September, according to Nielsen Online. from USAToday

Ten Things Bad About Laptops
from USAToday

More Stuff: Robbers, Coal, Joel, Prayer, Blind Beggar, Concrete and Sara Groves

The New Robber Barons
A New Era?

Female Absenteeism
More Than Just About Day Care?

Godly Men Shouldn't Be Weenies
God wants men to be courageous and fierce, says John Eldredge, author of "Wild at Heart." The bestselling book sees the men's movement through a Christian lens, urging men to overcome the stereotype of Jesus as a "bearded Mr. Rogers."

Joel Osteen Inspires Millions
Business leaders can learn a lot from the popular evangelist's uplifting style. Accentuating the hopeful empowers people to take action.

Give Clean Coal a Chance

Rustic Dish is Thrify and Satisfying
As In Bread Pudding

Make Your Home Prayer Friendly

CEO of City Hall
Captain of Chicago

When I Became a Christian
from the BlindBeggar

Incredible Feats of Concrete?!?!
Innovations in methods and ingredients have made possible lightweight bridges, color-changing buildings, and furniture created from this efficient material

Web Gets Blue Around the Collar
MyBlueCollar.com, an online extension of the popular Blue Collar Comedy brand, launches with short video contributions from Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall and Larry the Cable Guy. More than 100 videos, from them and others, are expected within a few weeks.

Social Networking with the Elite
A new crop of social networks aim to keep out the riff-raff by demanding credentials at the virtual door.

Sara Groves has No 1 Christian album on iTunes
from a former teacher in Rosemount MN

Job Perks and Future, MySpace and FaceBoork and Skype, Warming and Twine

Job perks galore for twentysomethings
from MSNBC Employers scramble to hire Gen Y talent as baby boomers head out door

Jobs For The Future
Forbes.com

MySpace Says: Skype Me
MySpace and Skype are teaming up to create the world’s largest online voice network. MySpace members will be able to make Internet phone calls using Skype’s telephony network and MySpace’s instant message program. From Forbes.com

How can you predict global warming if you can't predict rain?
Some say climate change is part of a complex natural cycle – so complex, in fact, that it can't be forecast. Are current climate models reliable? CSMonitor.com

What MySpace-Facebook Rivalry?
Talk of a brewing showdown between the two social networks masks fundamental distinctions between the sites' leadership, culture, and ability to make a buck . . . from BusinessWeek

Twine Launches A Smarter Way To Organize Your Online Life
from TechCrunch

Bionic Woman, Ethanol, Tin Whiskers, Cabbies and Texas

12 questions for the producers of the new Bionic Woman ... Mark Andreessen

from Newsweek: Is the ethanol boom going bust?

Danger to lead-free electronics: tin whiskers
Scientists fear damage will escalate once best-known defense is banned

Texas set to open new canyon to public

Big-Brained London Cabbies Balk at Dumbed Down `Knowledge' Test .
from Bloomberg.com

Not Open on Sundays, Cars, Housing Sinks, Lonely Hearts, EMail Free

The Cult of Chick-fil-A
The fast-food purveyor seeks loyal employees and operators who believe serving chicken is God's work . . . from Forbes

Why U.S. fuel-economy standards don't work
Automakers can put out efficient cars, can't make consumers buy them. MSNBC

Housing: That Sinking Feeling
Homeowners are getting slammed as builders slash prices. The big question: Will this shock treatment help hasten the end of the painful downturn?
from BusinessWeek

Getting Organized While Drinking from the (Outlook) Fire Hose
ComputerZen.com

German Lonely Hearts Pine for Dates as Eastern Girls Go West
GE to Cut About 1,400 Lighting Jobs in U.S., Brazil
Bloomberg.com

Fridays go from casual to e-mail-free
USAToday SAN FRANCISCO — Overwhelmed by e-mail? Some professionals are fighting back by declaring e-mail-free Fridays — or by deleting their entire in-box.

Christians Are Taking Over, Biking, Obama, Big Deals, FaceBook, Jesus Hardcore

Danger! Danger! They are Taking Over
Believe it or not, there are actually Christians on Australian Idol!

Katherine Kersten: Bike-riding mobs owns the streets of Minneapolis
Now we know who's in charge of Minneapolis streets. It's a loosely organized group of serial lawbreakers called Critical Mass . . . from the StarTribune.

George F. Will : Obama's economic adviser is ...

When Big Deals Go Bad - and Why
Amid a flurry of bad news for big deals, it bears remembering that successful mergers heed the basic rules of business . . . from BusinessWeek

The Manager's Job: Folklore and Fact
What do managers do? A study of five CEOs and studies of managers conclude that managerial work involves interpersonal roles, informational roles, and decisional roles . . . from BusinessWeek

The Founders Intended a Christian, not Secular Society
Michael Medved

Teens to Parents: It's Our FaceBook
Since Facebook launched in February 2004, the company says the number of active users (those who have used the system in the last 30 days) has jumped from 130,000 to 43 million.

Jesus Hardcore: Reaching Angry Mosh-Pit White Guys
About the Resurgence: Resurgence is a movement that resources multiple generations to live for Jesus so that they can effectively reach their cities with the gospel by staying culturally accessible and Biblically faithful.

More Stuff: Excess, Europe, Hyphens, Dead Business

Excess Disguised as Less
from Business Week: In a wasteful age, faux simplicity masks our overindulgence

Eurpose Falls Short in Higher Education
U.S. and British universities consistently win kudos, and that could spell trouble for the Continent's competitiveness

A Farewell to Hyphens
The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary unburdens 16,000 words of their hyphens.

10 Businesses Facings Extinction in 10 Years
Handicapping the odds on some fading industries surviving until 2017

Age Discrimination Flourishes in Mexico
from USA Today: people over 35 need not apply

In Growing Cities, A Loss of Students
from the Christian Science Monitor, schools aren't sure why enrollment is down.

Mark's Latest Great Posts: Ning, Great Customer Letter and Accounting

That's It, Public Accouting is Broken
I'd just like everyone to whom I owe money to know that you're never going to get it back. And I plan on booking the dollar value of your outrage as revenue in my current quarter.

Best Customer Service Letter Ever
Excerpt: Therefore, we have decided to offer every Woot customer who purchased a Zune from us on August 22, 2007... a $10 Woot credit towards any Woot order of $40 or more... We make this decision with every confidence that most of you will never want any of the crap we sell anyway.

Ning Passes 100,000 Social Networks
Mark's new company.