Archive for November, 2007



Beijing Olympics graphics

16Nov07

Chromosomal looking olympians. Simple strokes though.

links for 2007-11-16

16Nov07

Managing design
(tags: design management business strategy)

Inhabitat » Transportation Tuesday: MIT’s Stackable City Car
don’t care if it looks like the urkel mobile. we need it. and i want one.

(tags: car transit environment future)

Evangelizing simplicity: BizzyBoard

15Nov07

Working in groups on new “stuff” yields people to create concept documents that often are impregnated with the terms “portal”, or “kiosk”, or “handheld” or “consumer electronic device”. I believe that this is because of people’s obsession with high-technology. In reality, using extraneous technology is like using a nuclear bomb to get rid [...]

Creating Innovation Teams

15Nov07

This Fast Company article gets straight to the heart of what’s important in creating innovation teams.
I know many people with post graduate degrees coming out of their ears who can’t find a job. Why? Because they’re scholastically overqualified but don’t have the savvy, the perception and perspectives needed in a fast paced, competitive world. They [...]

links for 2007-11-13

13Nov07

Chinese Culture Versus German Culture » Adino Online
(tags: visualization design culture china germany)

The state of U.S. education is pathetic

12Nov07

Apparently, 1 in 10 high schools is a ‘dropout factory’. Say what? from the article:
WASHINGTON - It’s a nickname no principal could be proud of: “Dropout factory,” a high school where no more than 60 percent of the students who start as freshmen make it to their senior year. That description fits more [...]

links for 2007-11-11

11Nov07

Dapper: The Data Mapper
(tags: mashup rss aggregator tools xml)

thecoolhunter.net- Glowing Beauty - Skin, Florence
(tags: UX design space)

Go2Web20.net - The complete Web 2.0 directory
(tags: Web2.0 directory)

links for 2007-11-10

10Nov07

40+ Excellent Freefonts For Professional Design | Fonts | Smashing Magazine
(tags: fonts design typography)

On Love.

06Nov07

Myriad tomes have been penned about people and personality in the workplace, but my favorite one is still Love is the Killer App, by Tim Sanders. When I work on teams with intelligent people that are tough to work with or aren’t aligned, the results are staggeringly poor– In contrast I work on teams [...]

GreenDimes and Catalog Choice

04Nov07

Wow, I don’t know why I am slow to find this one, but this is huge for me.
I vehemently detest junk mail. I hate seeing it, smelling it, and pulling it out of my mailbox. I hate the physical act of spending brain cycles triaging mail desperately trying to separate the signal from [...]

Community attention deficit [disorder]

04Nov07

I have a theory on decision making in communities. I need to complete a lot more research and reading to substantiate my theory, but instinct tells me it’s true.
Communities, just like people, suffer from attention deficit disorder.
Because of media and pop culture, people as a collective spend way too much time and [...]

Sell short printing companies, buy long electronic ink vendors

04Nov07

Atiz rolls out “first consumer book ripper,“ the BookSnap This product introduction doesn’t necessarily have a Gutenbergian Press proportion to it, but I think it will “evolutionize“ significantly the way content is digitized. So right now, Google book search Potentially there might be a market that opens Yearly, innumerable scores of business books are written [...]

Very eagerly anticipating Twine

04Nov07

Though I just ponied up the cash for lifetime upgrades to what I think is the best newsreader for the Mac platform (NewsFire — Thanks Pete for the intro!), I still think Twine will be great if it will be my one stop information shop that extracts meaning and connects things for me. Especially [...]

links for 2007-11-04

04Nov07

Jason Ohler : Education and Technology :: Art, Storytelling, Education and Technology
(tags: Digitalstorytelling Education storytelling Learning)

CogDogRoo » StoryTools
(tags: digitalstorytelling storytelling web2.0 tools communication education)

links for 2007-11-03

03Nov07

Actics - Frontpage
(tags: ethics business community)



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On the nightstand

  • Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science

    Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science by Charles Wheelan

  • Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software

    Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software by Steven Johnson

  • On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (On Writing Well)

    On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (On Writing Well) by William K. Zinsser

  • The Learning Portfolio: Reflective Practice for Improving Student Learning (JB - Anker Series)

    The Learning Portfolio: Reflective Practice for Improving Student Learning (JB - Anker Series) by John Zubizarreta

  • Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

    Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky

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