{"id":1050,"date":"2008-08-04T17:32:31","date_gmt":"2008-08-05T00:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2008\/08\/04\/diigo-bookmarks-08052008-am\/"},"modified":"2008-08-05T10:24:23","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T17:24:23","slug":"diigo-bookmarks-08052008-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2008\/08\/04\/diigo-bookmarks-08052008-am\/","title":{"rendered":"Diigo Bookmarks 08\/05\/2008 (a.m.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"diigo-linkroll\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/proteinos.com\/feed\/2008\/08\/could-globalization-be-going-in-reverse\">Protein\u00ae Feed | Could Globalization Be Going In Reverse?<\/a><span class=\"diigo-link-opts\"> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/annotated?url=http%3A%2F%2Fproteinos.com%2Ffeed%2F2008%2F08%2Fcould-globalization-be-going-in-reverse&amp;user=lampertina\">Annotated<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">&#8220;The world is flat&#8221; or &#8220;the world is spiky&#8221; or &#8230;&#8221;the world is complex,&#8221; maybe?  At any rate, this article questions the idea that outsourcing will continue to continue, spreading outward in some sort of new and flattened topography (akin to a downward spiral insofar as the search for ever cheaper labor and laxer labor laws continues, but not wholly downward because economically, there&#8217;s an upward trend associated with it, too &#8211; hence perhaps the &#8220;flat&#8221; topography).  And it presents some interesting data as well as suppposition for why this might be so.  It&#8217;s not just the huge up-tick in transportation costs (although that&#8217;s a key factor), it&#8217;s also the logistics &#8212; including &#8220;reverse logistics.&#8221;  For example, consumers *want* to do better, and are becoming more aware of the &#8220;carbon footprint&#8221; of the products they buy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\">tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/globalization\">globalization<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/trends\">trends<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/economic_development\">economic_development<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/manufacturing\">manufacturing<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/transportation\">transportation<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/factories\">factories<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/shipping\">shipping<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/politics\/story.html?id=264510ca-2170-49cd-bad5-a0be122ac1a9&amp;p=1\">&#8220;Trading Places&#8221; by Alan Ehrenhalt (The New Republic)<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">Interesting article (which incidentally puts Vancouver front &amp; centre), blogged by Richard Florida at Creative Class: the subtitle is &#8220;the demographic inversion of the American city.&#8221;  It&#8217;s about how the &#8220;inner city&#8221; and its &#8220;inner city suburbs&#8221; are now desirable (and expensive) places to live, creating a 24\/7 downtown (desired &amp; theorized early on by Jane Jacobs, eg.), while the less affluent (ok, the poor!) are forced to live on the outskirts (suburbs).  This used to be called &#8220;gentrification,&#8221; but Ehrenhalt points out that it&#8217;s a much more complex process than just that.<\/p>\n<p>Haven&#8217;t read all the comments to this article, but it starts with some excellent ones &#8212; intelligent observations by readers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\">tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/cities\">cities<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/downtown\">downtown<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/creative_cities\">creative_cities<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/suburbs\">suburbs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/gentrification\">gentrification<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/trends\">trends<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/urbanization\">urbanization<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/urban_renewal\">urban_renewal<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/demographics\">demographics<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/03\/fashion\/03webparty.html?partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all\">Night Life Reprogrammed &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><span class=\"diigo-link-opts\"> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/annotated?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2008%2F08%2F03%2Ffashion%2F03webparty.html%3Fpartner%3Drssuserland%26emc%3Drss%26pagewanted%3Dall&amp;user=lampertina\">Annotated<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">Everything is more intense in NYC, including the geek or nerd &#8220;party&#8221; scene (meet ups, tweet ups, &#8220;ignite&#8221; events, etc.).  More people = more capital, in terms of creative energy and innovation.  (And perhaps headaches&#8230; but that&#8217;s another story&#8230;!)<\/p>\n<p>Of course I&#8217;d love to figure out how to sustain a mini-version of this right here (Victoria).  Vancouver works very hard at it &#8212; but even in Vancouver (I&#8217;m told), it&#8217;s the same people reappearing at the different events (i.e., nowhere near the critical mass of larger US metros).  Part of the problem is enticing people to come out &#8212; it&#8217;s so easy to stay home, after all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\">tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/nyt\">nyt<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/creative_class\">creative_class<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/geek\">geek<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/socialtheory\">socialtheory<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/ignite\">ignite<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/meet_ups\">meet_ups<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protein\u00ae Feed | Could Globalization Be Going In Reverse? &#8211; Annotated &#8220;The world is flat&#8221; or &#8220;the world is spiky&#8221; or &#8230;&#8221;the world is complex,&#8221; maybe? 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