is the title of a great post on the Ask 37signals blog. It’s great advice that I can fully subscribe to and recommend. Doesn’t really have anything to do with technology but is valid in a general sense.
By the way, I did watch Steve Martin on Charlie Rose, one of my [...]
Give a man a fish, and you’ll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you’re a consultant.
Scott Adams, Dogbert; Dilbert cartoons
US cartoonist (1957 - )
is a comment on Read/Write Web about the discussion that has sprouted up around the version game on the web and the often misunderstood meaning of terms like 1.0 / 2.0 and now 3.0
I tend to agree with what is said, especially with the explanation by Nova Spivack. I’ve said this before, [...]
This post has nothing to do with my usual blog theme, but I thought it well worth quoting from a recent Wall Street Journal article, via the Marketing Ladder newsletter. It’s about a professor at my daughter’s alma mater:
Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer-science professor, was about to give a lecture Tuesday [...]
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
P. B. Medawar
British (Brazilian-born) anatomist (1915 - )
in this coverage in Modern Agent which then begs the question: “Why aren’t they and their members there?” offering innovative tools for the millions of visitors to Europe to share the wealth of their collective wisdom for future travelers rather than maintaining traditional, and in many cases outdated websites. I understand there is an [...]
is the title of a new Forrester Report that Travel Weekly’s Arnie Weismann comments on. If by “humanizing” the report means to say that the clock needs to be turned back to a pre-digital travel experience, it seems to me as a non-starter. Commodity products / services such as an airline seat can no longer [...]
This is one of the most fascinating ways to present the top websites and their interrelation I’ve seen and a great example of how data can be visually presented:
You can find out more - including how to download it in various formats including a Mac screensaver on the iA - Information Architects website
It’s an [...]