Here is the review of the best links of February 5th.

Apple’s Design Process
Learn how Apple can “get” design when so many other companies try and fail.

4 Things Church Members Want From Their Pastor
(1) Your time. (2) Your ear. (3) Your presence. (4) Your prayers.

3 Steps for Maximizing Your Church Facility’s Reach
Your church facility strategy should progress from the simplest choices to more complex choices. Though it’s obvious, you’d be amazed how often these steps are taken out of order. (via)

Blue and Red are Great for Advertising
Red is the most effective at enhancing our attention to detail, while blue is best at boosting our ability to think creatively. Thanks to stop signs, emergency vehicles and teachers’ red pens, we associate red with danger, mistakes and caution. The avoidance motivation, or heightened state, that red activates makes us vigilant and thus helps us perform tasks where careful attention is required to produce a right or wrong answer. Blue encourages us to think outside the box and be creative. Through associations with the sky, the ocean and water, most people associate blue with openness, peace and tranquility.

Choosing the Right Blogging Platform
John Saddington scores 7 blogging platforms in 17 areas. Find out which is #1.

Teens Want to Help Their Parents
Teens don’t always act out of personal desire or selfishness, but feel relatively obligated to help their parents, even when the requests are small.

Young Teens Really Are Shortsighted
Compared with adults, the researchers found, teenagers consider the future less and prefer immediate rewards over delayed ones (for example, $700 today versus $1,000 a year from now). But it may not be impulsivity that guides their lack of forethought. Instead, the study found that teens are shortsighted more due to immaturity in the brain systems that govern sensation seeking than to immaturity in the brain systems responsible for self-control.

100% Duplicate Blog Content Hurts SEO
Google hates duplicate content. Everyone related to the network has suffered. Because of Google’s indexing robots, they attach “relationships” between sites via links and this “relational capital” is then factored in the power and effectiveness of the results. The fallout is diluted brand and poor ranking.

THE REVIEW OF 2008
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