links for 2008-12-01

• Brand Autopsy: BREAKDOWN | Colvin vs. Gladwell
  Great rundown of two hot books on the concept of deliberate practice.
  (tags: deliberatepractice books)
• Drilling Down - Maybe Canadians Have More Friends - NYTimes.com
  "Canadian Internet users are far more likely than Americans to use a social networking Web site, according to September figures released by the research firm comScore"
  (tags: comscore Stats SocialNetworking Canada)
• The Cool Factor - Never Let Them See You Sweat - NYTimes.com
  Calmness: the most important 21st century career skill you can have - and one apparently anyone can build if you commit yourself to it.
  (tags: psychology discipline selfimprovement obama careers)
• MIT Mobile Web
  Super example of mobile done right. Wish every brand did this.
  (tags: Mobile education)
• SmartBrief on Social Media | Sign Up
  Free email newsletter on all things social media. I subscribe to a bunch of these and they're awesome.
  (tags: newsletters socialmedia Smartbrief curation)
• MediaPost Publications - Blogs And Mainstream Media Intersect - 11/26/2008
  Great roundup of existing stats, including this one: "95% of the top 100 US newspapers have reporter blogs."
  (tags: media Blogs Journalism Stats Technorati)