There’s a juicy internationalization problem Hindus in Europe want to take back the swastika because to them it’s a symbol of luck and peace which the Nazis stole.
IA Leadership Seminar The early registration deadline for the Information Architecture Institute’s Leadership Seminar is January 28th. Continue Reading →
Disruption in home audio If you’d like to see the process of a disruptive technology take hold before the disruption, look at the home audio industry. Continue Reading →
Why does free tagging seem so familiar? Tim Bray on Technorati Tags: “I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about metadata and have written on the subject; the most important conclusion was: There is no cheap metadata. Continue Reading →
The Paradox of Choice I meant to make a note of Barry Schwartz’s The Paradox of Choice a while ago, and was reminded of it as it’s now in paperback. Continue Reading →
Navigate by fabric pattern It’s little experiments like this that reassure me there’s still fun to be had on the commercial web. Continue Reading →
Flickr tag: cardreader NYC Subway metrocard slots Mike Lee sparked my interest in observing how many different ways designers tell us to insert a card into a machine. Continue Reading →
Falseonomies The Clay Shirky spin on the ethnoclassification discussion is amusing. Continue Reading →
The new global currency? The Economist says, tongue-in-cheek: …the dollar has been dethroned even sooner than we expected. Continue Reading →
Malcolm Gladwell blinks Malcolm Gladwell I just saw Malcolm Gladwell do a book tour talk. Continue Reading →
We are all in this together Just returned from San Francisco where one of the best things I saw was a billboard of Mark Mumford’s WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER. Continue Reading →
NYC Lectures, Jan 2005 Malcolm Gladwell talks about his new book, Blink, at Barnes and Noble Union Square at 7pm on January 13th. Continue Reading →
The Daimler-Chrysler merger at work James Cobb of the New York Times generates the latest praise for the Chrysler 300 and adds, It also melds Stuttgart engineering with Detroit style, providing a rebuttal to those who were skeptical – we know who we are – of Daimler’s takeover of Chrysler. Continue Reading →
