I was fortunate to attend the [Global Philanthropy Forum](http://www.philanthropyforum.org/conference/2007/2007archive.htm) this year, held at Google from April 11-13. I just stumbled upon my notes from it and will be writing them up over the next few days; I’ll archive the links to each session here. * [Measuring Development Impact](http://ryskamp.org/brain/lectures/gpf-measuring-development-impact)
The Inglehart-Welzel Cultural Map of the World plots all human societies on a single graph, with axes for “traditional/secular” and “survival/self-expression” values.
World Values Survey – “This is a place to learn more about values and cultural changes in societies all over the world.”
On our [pilgrimage to the Kwik-E-Mart](http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobman/841391155/) today, I was enticed into buying and eating a neon pink donut and a neon blue Slushee. I downed those on the skateboard ride back to work (yep, work), and almost immediately regretted it. My body just couldn’t handle the sugar, which took me on a wild ride from…more
The Velib bikes are pretty crazy too
“This weekend, Paris placed over 10,000 bikes in just 36 hours , launching an ambitious bike sharing system that is meant to ‘lead a revolution in the way Parisians move around the city’.”
This is why you check email and news only once a day
“Video is 3 dimensional, because it
Nearly 20% of the donations made online to the Red Cross last month were by people using stolen credit cards. – apparently donating to a charity doesn’t require an address nor raise the ire of an in-store clerk, so thieves donate to charity to see if the card is valid. Amazing.
Microsoft’s new collaborative design/development space for mobile phone designers; slide 5 looks especially nice