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Brand Power and Smart Phones
With the flurry of recent news about Apple’s new iPhone and iOS4, I’ve been giving a lot of thought to the masterful play that Apple has made in this arena. The bulk of their success is not due to their hardware (there is more powerful hardware available) or their software (there is more capable software [...]
Continue reading...Design Done Well
19 June 2010
Looking to learn? This presentation covers a lot of ground and does it well, just like good design should: 10 Things CEOs Need to Know About Design View more presentations from Jason Putorti.
Continue reading...Your Data, Their Value
18 June 2010
I’ve been slowly integrating more social media tools into my life. This experience has not been without hiccups, and has given me pause on more than one occasion. Today, however, I realized the inequality of the social media relationship.
Continue reading...Switching Costs
17 June 2010
This video made me switch back to Chrome from Safari 5: But then, when I loaded my first site, it wasn’t as fast in real life as it was in the video. So I went back to Safari. Damn marketing. Cool video though. Hat tip to Andrew Farah.
Continue reading...Photo Update – Katy’s Graduation
15 June 2010
Last Friday, we celebrated my sister-in-law Katy’s graduation from the University of Washington. Please find photos below or on Flickr.
Continue reading...The Value of “Things”
14 June 2010
If you’ve been following my tweets lately, you may already know that our beloved 1998 Honda Accord, Yolanda, is on her way out the door. She has reached the point in both age and mileage, where she now needs more work than she’s worth. The decision to get rid of this car should’ve been an [...]
Continue reading...Two Cars, One Challenge, Many Lessons
11 June 2010
If you’re not really into cars, you probably haven’t heard about MINI USA challenging Porsche to a road race.
Continue reading...The Ironies of Multitasking
10 June 2010
Continuing with the theme of “Things Apple Does,” I found it extremely ironic that Apple would release iOS 4 – the new operating system for their iPhone/iPod Touch devices – this week. Why the irony? Read on….
Continue reading...The Importance of Presentation
9 June 2010
As someone who finds that his television is more often tuned to the Food Network than turned off, I know the importance of plating and presentation (Iron Chef, much?). But only recently did I make the professional connection to this phenomenon.
Continue reading...Work and Communication
3 June 2010
As I am embarking on some new job-related activities, I began to wonder about what exactly my “work product” was comprised of. It dawned on me that the bulk of what I do at and for “work” boils down to one word: communication. What Do You Do? For a lot of jobs, it’s easy to [...]
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- The Startup Life | Story Time
- Emerging Talk – A Recap
- Coming Soon: Emerging Talk
- Balance | Distractions
- Balance | Good Enough
- Balance | Saying Yes vs. Saying No
- Balance | Time
- Cyber War | Not Here, Not Now
- Cyber War | Op-Ed Fallout
- Cyber War | Is There? Are We?
- I Hate Turnitin.com, or, "Help! The Cloud Ate My Homework!"
- Duke University Professor Scores One For Academic Freedom
- Starting Up | Making Entrepreneurs
- What's a Charrette?
- An Urgent Message from LSAC
- Zombie Tag
- Individual Market Freedom
- Mental Clutter
- What Matters Now or "Be Awesome."
- Digital Literacy - It's Important! (Seriously)
- Shay: Poncho's not the jealous type - plus, the new Aston Martin would be his girlfriend, so I'm sure he wouldn't mind....
- Snyder: Does Poncho get jealous when you look at other vehicles? You're just asking for ignition system trouble....
- Shay: Thanks, Mom!...
- louisecolson: you look fabulous! Bravo :)...
- Katy Kelly: Wow! What a connection. I watched and voted for the video after it showed up on my favorite blog The Daily What. I guess if I followed John Mayer on T...
- John Hughes: Congrats on Graduating and the Leadership Award. Next...life. Good luck on the drive across country. Speaking as someone who has moved frequently, I...
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- Whisky Made From Diabetics' Urine August 31, 2010It's doubtful that any other distillery will come up with a whisky that tastes like Gilpin Family Whisky because of its secret ingredient: urine. Researcher and designer James Gilpin uses the sugar rich urine of elderly diabetics to make his high-end single malt whisky. From the article: "The source material is acquired from elderly volunteers, inc […]
- 10 Media Takes on the Google-Verizon Net Neutrality Proposal August 11, 2010For a document with no actual authority behind it, the Verizon/Google policy proposal on openness rules for the country’s wired and wireless networks has caused quite the media storm. Today the authors themselves joined in via a Washington Post op-ed. In case anyone is wondering whether Google and Verizon hate their Internet freedom, Google CEO Eric Schmidt […]
- FBI Prioritizes Copyright Over Missing Persons August 10, 2010An anonymous reader writes "The FBI has limited resources, so it needs to prioritize what it works on. However, it's difficult to see why dealing with copyright infringement seems to get more attention than identity theft or missing persons. In the past year, the FBI has announced a special new task force to fight intellectual property infringement […]
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