Best Online Planning Tools Redux – 25 lttrs n th alphbt. Awesome — best collection of Planning links I’ve found anywhere.

Trans Siberian Railway – A virtual journey on Google Maps. It’s the closest thing I’ve ever seen that brings the travel experience to your computer.

Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos augmented-reality apps at TED. This is an incredible presentation that shows one example of how far technology has come in the past few years.

Living Stories – Google’s newest experiment in presenting online news. I especially like the timeline feature.

Great article from Esquire: Roger Ebert Cancer Battle

Top 10 Free Ways to Discover New Music Online

“The sociology of drinking” – Malcolm Gladwell’s newest piece for The New Yorker.

The greatest movie scene ever? – Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus!

Is It Possible to Opt-Out of Social Networking? – Not The User’s Fault

Want to Spread News on Twitter? It’s Who You Know, Not How Many – Fast Company

Five Must-Read Posts from Last Week – Servant of Chaos

Bacon Cheese Turtleburgers – This Is Why You’re Fat

How to Get Your First Job/Placement in Planning by Life Moves Pretty Fast

Who Says the Future Needs an Advertising Agency? by Bud Caddell

IfWeRanTheWorld- Interesting social experiment

Jamie Oliver’s TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food

The Case for Local Investing – GOOD

In The World of Facebook – The New York Review of Books

Japanese Shoppers Freaked Out by Singing, Dancing, Shirtless Staff at Tokyo Abercrombie New York Magazine

6 (or so) questions an ad agency should ask a prospective client before pitching – Welcome to Optimism

Weighing in on Amazon/Macmillan Pricing Debate – Pakman’s Blog

How Young People Are Changing The World – Marian Salzman

Pepsi Invites The Public To Do Good – The New York Times

3 New Ways to Measure the Social Web – Mashable

Why My Mom’s Next Computer Is Going To Be An iPad – Techcrunch

How To Become a Strategic ‘Pretty Picture’ Person – Mark Pollard

The Good to Great Manifesto – Umair Haque

The 80 Best Guerrilla Marketing Ideas I’ve Ever Seen – Francesco Mugnai

Now, in 2010, we have more resources at our disposal than at any other time in history to create positive changes culturally, economically, politically, etc. The internet has become a sounding board for people to voice their opinions. Occasionally, it has been used as a tool to gather individuals for local, all the way up to global causes, but we’re still at the early stages of harnessing the collective strength of online communities.

Here’s a MLK quote I found on Tumblr via The Consumerologist

“We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.”

A quote from the blog Stuff White People Like in a post about the recent Conan O’Brien hoopla:

“But no, white people will solve this problem the way that they solved the election crisis in Iran – through Facebook and Twitter status updates. In 2009, millions of white people took 35 seconds to turn their twitter profiles green, and consequently sent a very powerful message to the leaders of Iran. Their message was that they wanted their friends to know that they would stop at nothing to ensure freedom and democracy for the Iranian people. Thanks in large part to that effort Iran is now completely democratic. With that issue settled, white people are launching a similar campaign for Conan that is sure to have similar results…

For you see, while white people will fiercely support Conan O’Brien in any public forum, they always fail to support him in the only way that actually helps – by watching his show.”

That above quote, of course, is meant to be funny (it is), but it’s also very true. My point isn’t to say that people changing their avatars, status updates and retweeting are useless (these activities generate a great deal of awareness). My point is that we need to do more.

3rd quote, from Umair Haque (emphasis mine):

“By design. 20th Century organizations were built to have strategic intent. The point of a strategic intent is merely to best rivals. That’s the opposite of an ambition: it’s just combat. Yesterday’s organizations were missing the burning desire to improve on yesterday in their very DNA. That’s what reduced them to passionless machines — and it’s what ultimately made our lives smaller, our economies less vibrant, and our societies poorer.”

Last quote, from superamit on Tumblr:

“Do something compelling. There’s a trillion people writing blogs that need something to write about. There are magazines hungry for content. There are hundreds of thousands of people bored on the internet wanting something to look at or do. For the most part, people have exceedingly low standards on the internet. But, I think people are hungry for better. Make something better. People will notice.”

h/t Faris Yakob on Tumblr

87 Cool Things from Google at Adweek 2009

Google Internet Stats – Nice resource for Planners and Strategists.

YouTube: Fast.Forward – Google and The Wharton School have partnered to gather and provide quick perspective on managing the change in the marketing landscape.

How To Be A Better Brand Planner via BrandTwist

Planner Reads – Project by Bud Caddell aggregating the most shared content from Planners and Strategists. Sign up here – the more, the merrier.

Nine Scientifically Proven Ways to Get Retweeted on Twitter via Fast Company

Nice collection of downloadable articles on AccountPlanning.net, mostly written by John Griffiths, who writes the furtherandfaster blog

Download the first edition of Dsplaced magazine, “an experiment in collective storytelling” by two Strategists, Jinal Shah and Mansi Trivedi

Open Book Test for Planners: The interview questions I ask and why by Scott Karambis on the Please Feed The Animals blog

One of my favorite videos this week. It’s an ad for Allan Gray investing that explores what would have happened if James Dean didn’t die so young:

The Paradox of Planning

35+ Examples of Corporate Social Media in Action

Modea:  Slideshare + Twitter

A 60 Inch Screen in Your Pocket

twtBizCard :: your twitter business card

quotes/citations – a set on Flickr

TED Blog: Dan Ariely: 2008 was a good year for behavioral economics

Unconsumption PB Wiki

MEDIA ARTS MONDAYS: Periodicals Worth Paying For

Japanese Vending Machines Are A Recession Hit

Lens – Photojournalism Blog from NYTimes.com

LeftRightLeftRightLeft – download the new Coldplay album

50 Great Photographers You Should Know (with portfolios)

Ten Lessons In Bootstrapping from the Founders of UrbanSpoon

The money illusion

What Makes Us Happy? via The Atlantic

The New York Times envisions version 2.0 of the newspaper

Diddit

Keep track of what you wanna do, share stories about your life experiences (your “diddits”), and meet people like you.

40 Useful and Creative Infographics

imdoingmypart.org

Find small actions you can do for Energy, Happiness, Waste and Water.

Media Arts Mondays: Data Visualization Tools

Twitshirt

Sell your Tweets on Twitshirt

NotCot.org

Growing network of design sites

McDonald’s Is Winning More Than The Value Wars via Advertising Age

Newspapers and Thinking The Unthinkable by Clay Shirky

How David Beats Goliath – When Underdogs Break The Rules by Malcolm Gladwell

Where is Everyone?

In this article, we are going to take a little tour through the history of information – or more specifically where to focus efforts if you want get in touch with other people.

DubMeNow

Dub is your mobile business card. The goal driving DubMeNow is developing better ways to communicate, network, and exchange contact information – all from your mobile phone!

The Psychology of Attention 7 Part Series via PsyBlog

Halting Russia’s Population Collapse via BBC News