Via the NYT Today: Once ESPN establishes itself in local markets, it plans to move deeper into local sports — down to the high school level and perhaps beyond — by using social networking and other technology to inform its journalism. Sounds familiar (Steven Johnson, Old Growth Media And The Future Of News): Measured by [...]
I’m reading a fine line, how design strategies are shaping the future of business, by Hartmut Esslinger. The following quote struck me: Although few corporations mirror the smooth operations spelled out in their press releases, the internal discord that results from a lack of shared vision at the leadership level can destroy a company’s coordinated [...]
Been meaning to get this up for everyone: My talk on cloud computing. Enjoy.
Upon hearing the bailout failed to pass in the house: A White House spokesman said that President Bush was “very disappointed.” “There’s no question that the country is facing a difficult crisis that needs to be addressed,” Tony Fratto told reporters. He said the president will be meeting with members of his team later in [...]
The other day I stumbled across Ziya Danishmend’s blog, Notes from the Backyard. Ziya is a CD over at Blast Radius who I met last year while conducting a job search. Our chat went well and his point of view was very prescient and insightful. What we covered is essentially broken down in a post [...]
As I get deeper into my studies of data visualization, I’ve been sharing some of my observations and thoughts with the creative team here at Roundarch. I’m admittedly a terrible power-point presenter, but I thought I’d share some of the recent talks I’ve led discussion on. Below are two links to the longer talk I [...]
(via Maeda’s blog in the Technology Review) Content: There needs to be a message or meaning. Everything needs a reason to exist, otherwise it shouldn’t. Context: Content doesn’t live in a vacuum. A Chanel bag sitting on a shelf at Wal-Mart will only confuse. Contrast: An element is made stronger when a counterelement is offered. [...]
(from Maeda’s Simplicity Blog) So it dawned upon me how important it is to be a creative. Because it means you have within you infinite capacity to experiment. You are unafraid to go somewhere new because you are creating a new thought process about your own creativity. You know that if you stop and no [...]
John Maeda will assume his responsibilities as president of RISD in June 2008. The Tuna is off to Miami to be the Director of Football Operations.