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Best sign yet that the digital consulting business is hurting. First some background: We recently lost a new business pitch to another, much smaller company. We really liked the client and it seemed like a tough decision for them. We stayed in touch with them just to see how things were going. Good thing, because…

New York Times article on usability testing at Fidelity

Yesterday I read a story in Fast Company about Patagonia, a favorite company of mine. It mentions how they built the walls of their distribution center with compressed straw, which is more eco-friendly than using virgin building materials. This morning I realized the weather in the Northeast is demonstrating its annual change of summer to…

I just saw Girlfight, and I wept, a lot. A movie about boxing made me cry, that’s how awesome this film is. It’s also great to see a Latina lead role, and even better the role was a believable everyday person, so rare in film these days. Reminded me of Brando in A Streetcar Named…

Talk about syncronicity…this new story in the NY Times about bar codes explores their future potential. Maybe bar coding our flesh isn’t such a bad idea after all.

jjg correctly points out that IBM is not the owner of the skin tattoo patent I referenced recently. It brings up an interesting branding question, how people view these pages out of context and, at least in my case, figure the domain name implies ownership.

Smile of the day: Email address of the month awards. Thanks to Chris Pepper for this one.

The banner ad for BlueLight.com says Shop Martha Stewart Everyday. Are they insane? There’s a point at which a hard sell is too hard. After following the link I learn they have a section called Martha Stewart Everyday. I actually like that name, but putting the word “shop” in front of it changes everything.

I just read through two wireless articles last night. The first from Creative Good is a good introduction, albeit with the usual reactionist position on the customer experience (I whole-heatedly agree with most of the findings, but there’s no acknowledgement that things will change. In a 6 months we will have technology that will obsolete…

The other day in the car I thought I understood the appeal of Limp Bizkit (this had been alluding me for some time). They are to this generation what Metallica was/is to mine. Sure ‘nough today I came across a Limp Bizkit cover of Metallica’s Master of Puppets, I think there’s a progression there.

Whoa, I just went to go check My Yahoo! and was taken aback: a white background! And kinda slick (for Yahoo) looking layout, but still spartan and fast. Once I signed in I received the familiar grey drab page. Is the white the look of things to come??

So glad this week is over…dealing with a cold contracted from a 65+ mile bike ride through the rainy hills of New Jersey and way too much work at work. Taking off for North Carolina this weekend for some warmer weather, my cousin’s wedding, spending time with my nephews and niece, and a pig roast.…

…and a site exclusively devoted to Wireless Financial Services News. I bet you have no idea what I’m working on these days.

unstrung – yet another web site devoted to the mobile industry. Surprisingly enough, this one is done pretty well too.

uidesign.net leaves me wondering why I haven’t found this site earlier. Since I’m currently reading “The Humane Interface” I found this exchange interesting, and this application of user personas to mobile design looks helpful.