These are my links for October 26th 2008
- America’s latest export: empty municipal coffers | Business | The Observer – Is the US economic crisis about to get even worse as state governments are unable to raise loans to cover tax routine short-falls? This means public sector workers not getting paid and/or infrastructure projects being cancelled or postponed.
- Why All the Best Marketers Know Each Other – Stepcase Lifehack – “ideological incest”: when ideas inbreed too much without anything new entering the meme pool. Some say this happens in an echo chamber. They have redundant mutations which render them stagnant, then unhealthy, then degenerative, and ultimately, crippling. Luddites suffer from advanced stages of ideological incest, as do political polemicists who engage in too much wordslinging and not enough changebeing.
- Martin Wainwright on Victorian gang violence | Education | guardian.co.uk – New book by academic shows Manchester's historical precedent for knife crime and gangs, and may have some lessons for similar problems today
