The Raw Story | America's #1 completely independent news and politics source. Ford restarts Lincoln Motor Co. - Dec. 3. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) The automaker has not used its full name since the 1950s, an era when it was synonymous with rich but understated luxury. Unfortunately, Lincoln's luxury luster has been tarnished for decades. With a renewed focus on the brand, Ford is attempting to turn back the clock. Lincoln is not being spun off into an altogether separate carmaker, but Ford wants to give it greater separation from the more mass market Ford "blue oval" brand. Lincoln will now have its own product development team, designers and salespeople. Ford executive Jim Farley, head of sales and marketing at Ford, will take over responsibility for the Lincoln Motor Co. division while continuing in his other roles. Ford also recently set up a separate design studio for its Lincoln vehicles, something the brand hasn't had since the 1970s.
"The company hasn't made this kind of commitment to Lincoln in decades," Farley said in an interview. Related: Ford Fusion named "Green Car of the Year" The Brief. "Alone Together": An MIT Professor's New Book Urges Us to Unplug. Sherry Turkle, has been an ethnographer of our technological world for three decades, hosted all the while at one of its epicenters: MIT. A professor of the social studies of science and technology there, she also heads up its Initiative on Technology and Self. Her new book, Alone Together, completes a trilogy of investigations into the ways humans interact with technology. It can be, at times, a grim read. Fast Company spoke recently with Turkle about connecting, solitude, and how that compulsion to always have your BlackBerry on might actually be hurting your company's bottom line.
I didn't realize MIT hired Luddites. Well, I'm no Luddite. You conducted a lot of fieldwork and clinical interviews to write this book. I interviewed lawyers, architects, management consultants, and businessmen. What advice do you have for businesses who increasingly use this technology--smart phones, social networks, and the like? What businesses need to do is remember that these technologies are precious. Cloze. PolicyMic Mobile. Why the role of a “Digital Strategist” needs to evolve / Constant Beta. ****This blog post has ignited tons of conversations and discussions around the role of digital strategists.
I’m currently collaborating with several thinkers to explore this thought forward. If you’d like to learn of the results, email me jinals28 AT Gmail. And thanks for visiting! It’s been about six months since I joined JWT. And what a ride it has been. I feel like I’ve grown ten-fold and the learning’s continue. I’m reminded of how I felt when I first left India to come to USA for undergraduate studies. Missing skill-set in a digital strategist There is varying degrees of overlap between traditional account planning, engagement planning, communications planning and digital strategy. All these forms of planning are more art than science. I can’t speak for others, but I’ve taken upon the task of teaching myself this missing skill-set because my instinct is that it will help me become a better strategist. Behaviors; not technologies: Areas of excellence:
27 Ways to Learn to Program Online. Whether you are looking to switch careers and become a full-time programmer, want to try to build a website or app on the side, or are just looking to round out your skill set, learning to code has certainly been something a lot of people have started to do lately. And while being a programmer might not be for everyone, there is a lot to be said about gaining a better, more educated view of how all those pixels get moved around all those screens. Before we delve into our list of learning resources sites, we wanted to share some advice from Marissa Louie, a self-taught product designer for Ness Computing.
A former startup founder, Louie told TNW that the hardest part of being self-taught – whether it’s design, programming, or any other discipline is, “gathering the courage. The most important barrier is just to overcome your fears” (she also said having the ability to follow instructions helps as well). F**k it, we'll do it live! 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. Correlate. Google Correlate is an experimental new tool on Google Labs which lets you use the same methodology and data as Google Flu Trends. What is Google Correlate? Google Correlate is like Google Trends in reverse. With Google Trends, you type in a query and get back a series of its frequency (over time, or in each US state).
With Google Correlate, you enter a data series (the target) and get back queries whose frequency follows a similar pattern. Correlated Queries When you upload a data set (a time series, for instance), Google Correlate will compute the Pearson Correlation Coefficient (r) between your time series and the frequency time series for every query in our database. For example, say your data set was a sine wave from 2003-2010, so that 0.0 is the summer solstice and 1.0 is the winter solstice.
This could be generated in Excel using the SIN or COS function. To get your data into Google Correlate, you have two main options: We’ll use the copy/paste technique here. 0.9483 alpine touring. OLIVE: On-line Library of Information Visualization Environments. Welcome to OLIVE, the On-line Library of Information Visualization Environments! Listed to the left are eight categories of information visualization environments differentiated by data type.
Within each category we have gathered what we feel are the most important citations, commercial products, research projects, and videos. This web-site is a class project for Dr. Ben Shneiderman's fall 1997 CMSC 828/838S graduate course on Information Visualization at the University of Maryland, College Park, Department of Computer Science. Dr. Modern visual environments often go much further than just viewing static data -- dynamic and flexible user control are becoming more of a reality, and possibly a necessity. We provide several approaches to viewing our site with the idea of illustrating a few of the approaches available for visualizing information presented on the web. -Michael Reed (reed@cs.umd.edu) & Dan Heller (djheller@wam.umd.edu), Editors.