Kitchen Table
The phrase comes from Owen, who once compared the conversation among blogs to chatting around the kitchen table.
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Religion and Business
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Daniel S. Brenner says, ‘Build a Mosque at Ground Zero, and a church, and a synagogue. An inter-religious center would be a testimony to America’s spiritual power.‘ Then a friend asks, ‘What if the world religions at least got together on the common ground of fair trading? Like co-operative review committees? WTO watchdogs?” In my…
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Semantic Studios
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hey, I made Peter Morville’s A-list. Though I don’t know why, I haven’t written about information architecture in, like, nine years.
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Complexity in Business
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What’s the Matter With Sun?: Newt Gingrich was talking about large information-technology companies and what they need to say to their customers. Gingrich said, ‘The line should be, The Answer to Complexity Is ( Your Company’s Name Here ).’
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Half-Truths in Business
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Memo To: CEOs There is nothing clever about firing large numbers of people. In our finance classes, we are teaching a view of the world that says that each of us is obsessively self-interested and intent on maximizing personal gain. Economic Man, we tell our students, has one goal: more. And to get more, each…
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Community
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‘No man is an island’ – Thomas Merton Merton was a pretty interesting guy. When the time comes to learn more about monks, which we all do eventually, you could do worse then look him up. Given his faith-questioning ways and interest in Eastern philosophy, I’m surprised the Catholic church didn’t kick him out.
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Johnny Metaseed
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It’s nearly impossible to find the contact info for my local bikeshop on the ‘net, a situation not improved by my inability to spell renaissance, so I made them a webpage. Nothing special, just something for people to find when they’re looking.
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Mark Twain on the German Language
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I’m currently experiencing this pain, a sort of sadomasachism… There are ten parts of speech, and they are all troublesome. An average sentence, in a German newspaper, is a sublime and impressive curiosity; it occupies a quarter of a column; it contains all the ten parts of speech — not in regular order, but mixed;…
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Fear in Advertising
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NYC Bloggers
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http://www.nycbloggers.com/ Nice presentation, I like seeing who’s blogging in my neighborhood (and so I wonder if navigating by zip code wouldn’t been better than subway line. The subway line joins us across neighborhoods in an egalitarian way, but no one talks to each other on the subway). That there are almost as many bloggers in…
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Lunch in Hamburg
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Had the pleasure of dining and talking shop with fine folks in Hamburg. Pictured are Andrew, myself, James, Eric, and Ulrike.
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9.11 Tribute
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I’m off on vacation. I’ll leave you with this 9.11 Tribute site IA’d be a former co-worker of mine. I like that you don’t have to navigate upon arrival, you can simply sit back and absorb it. Sometimes the web can be like film.
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Isn’t That Quaint?
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Over beers with Meghan in marketing: Meghan: Wow, you’re still with the fish? What do you do?Me: I don’t know if you’re familiar with all our titles…I do information architecture…Meghan: Oh my god, I remember all those ridiculous titles. What the hell were we thinking?
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Leslie’s Back
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Harpold.com
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Why God Why
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Katie Raygun, a 15-year old with attitude, is one of those bloggers that make me feel like a voyeur. I’m 32 and pretending I still understand teenagers, and of course I don’t. Some of it might be contrived, but who cares? She’s got voice, and that’s something I love in a weblog. ‘You wouldn’t know…
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Beetle for Sale
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She’s lovely, but this city is no place for her. She wants to run and jump and play. Won’t you adopt her? Details.