January 2010
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“Bullshit artists need love too.”
– Scotch & Ginger
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“Bullshit artists need love too.”
– Scotch & Ginger
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“As Twitter survives without more than 140 characters, so too will the iPad...”
– Simplenote developer on multitasking (via atestu)
The 140-character limit on Twitter is a design constraint within which creativity has flourished. It’s not yet clear to me how the inability to multitask is a similarly beneficial constraint. At the very least, it doesn’t seem like...
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The business goals of brands
Method’s Dean Crutchfield in Adweek:
The business goal of any brand is to create more users, new users or new uses by continually innovating to add value to customers’ lives. This we achieve by creating preference (Intel), emotional bonds (Disney), a unique position in the marketplace (Gap), short cuts for customer decision making (Caterpillar), insulation against competitive pressure...
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Reading: John Barth, "The Sot-Weed Factor"
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Pentagram: What the iPad means
For advertising:
“The mean little conventions of online advertising—banner ads, pop ups, and so forth—aren’t popular with readers, with advertisers, and certainly not with designers. The iPad’s a new medium that will create a whole range of opportunities. Once people start exploiting what it can do, we may see the kind of creative renaissance that will deliver the next George Lois or Lee Clow....
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a friend of mine passed away a few months back:
alaskamiller:
he wasn’t a badass. he wasn’t in the service. he didn’t even join boy scouts. but, he was hardworking even though he was young, generous even though he was poor, and decent even though his childhood wasn’t. that’s what made him so great. despite the crap cards in his hand in this galactic game of poker he was never spiteful. he just went about being good and kind. i’ve been waking...
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“Dave loved details for their own sake, but details were also an outlet for the...”
– Jonathan Franzen
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“.. In the logic of the Net there is a shift from nouns to verbs. Economists now...”
– Kevin Kelly,founder of WIRED.. in his book Out of Control : The new biology of machines.. (via sreikanth)
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Reporters will test news chops of Twitter,...
I wish this were happening in English. Google Translate anyone?
Reporters put Twitter, Facebook to ‘Big Brother’ test
by Marie-Dominique Follain – Thu Jan 21, 1:21 pm ET
PARIS (AFP) – Five journalists plan to lock themselves away in a French farmhouse with access only to Facebook and Twitter to test the quality of news from the social networking and micro-blogging sites.
Twitter and...
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Living Off Craigslist
bmdesign:
My name is Jason Paul. After graduating from college with a bachelor’s degree in communication, I attempted to pursue a “conventional” job writing for a number of publications. I applied for over 180 positions, from small papers in Lawrence, Kansas to Boulder, Colorado. After an overwhelming swell of rejection emails, I called the conventional lifestyle quits and decided to pursue an...
Rock Chalk, Jayhawk
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Bruce Nussbaum: IDEO Alumni Begin To Lead. Move...
McKinsey’s exodus of alumns to public organizations and private corporations reinforced a culture (and a set of tools and methods) of efficiency, choice and incrementalism. IDEO’s exodus of people could reinforce a culture of opportunity, new options and iteration. This could be very significant. I’d love to see an IDEO alum in the West Wing.
At BusinessWeek.
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“So-called ‘social media’ soon will be called just plain...”
– Story Worldwide
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“Dilige et quod vis fac.”
– Love, and do what you will. — Augustine of Hippo
Also, the epigraph of David Foster Wallace’s Tense Present.
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“Доверяй, но проверяй.”
– Trust, but verify.
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Watcheldoggrag:
lynrei:
animinimalism:
A “Conan went to Harvard” story that never made it on air but is actually hysterical. via scout
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Reading: Debbie Millman, "Look Both Ways"
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Multicultural Critical Theory. At B-School?
A decade ago, Roger Martin, the new dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, had an epiphany. The leadership at his son’s elementary school had asked him to meet with its retiring principal to figure out how it could replicate her success.
He discovered that the principal thrived by thinking through clashing priorities and potential options, rather than hewing to any...
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The Three Ages of Brand
Based on this post by Paul Worthington of Wolff Olins.