Category: General

More from Ted Dzibua: What I really learned from the fall of Pressflip is that arrogance is more dangerous than incompetence. I believed that raw engineering prowess could make up for the complete lack of business experience, a product that really only appealed to the people who build the technology behind it, and an addressable […]

From one of my favorite blog ranters, Ted Dziuba on the maddening prevalence of non-blaming language in the workplace. Yesterday, I spearheaded a new movement at the office. I stopped using the word “we”, and started to say what I really meant to say. For example, instead of “We should fix that bug”, I say, […]

I’ve often said that as the internet connectivity becomes ubiquitous in our lives, permeating every device that we carry and area where we live – that the web becomes like a layer of dust over everything. Academics used to call this ubiquitous computing – or ubicomp. Some would say fairy dust, others would say slime. […]

I don’t always feel like I ‘get’ personal branding. I think it’s because of my theatre background. Most theories of acting are either 1) you inhabit and become the character who is completely different from you or 2) you play the character as your full intimate self inside that situation. One is about layers of […]

Bill Moyers hosted Kathleen Hall Jamieson on a recent Bill Moyers Journal. Regardless of your point of view on healthcare, she illustrates how uninformed public opinion polls shape and reinforce media coverage: Unless you start by asking the public in a poll what they know, what the baseline level of knowledge is, it doesn’t matter […]

I’m often grabbing screencaps of sites and then throwing them into Fireworks or Picnik to edit them and then editing them and resizing them and cropping them and then uploading and pretending like it is all an effective process. Usually I just want a nice screencap to setup a post. I found a bunch of […]

from http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/04/02/lol-pixar-vs-dreamworks/

From Google TechTalks YouTube channel: Good quotes: “To the user, the interface is the product.” “If you notice the interface, that means you’re thinking about the interface and not the thing you’re trying to do.” “The perfect interface for a shovel is a hole that you can put wherever you want it.” “The seduction of […]

A lot has been written in the past few days about how social media and technology has been at the center of the developments in Iran. But I’d like to go a few decades back. Something rather startling happened during Obama’s trip to the Middle East a few weeks ago. For the first time a […]

Had this half-completed on my hard drive. Sitting here waiting for the dance show to come on and finished it: