- 3 Things (design focused)
Economics and Design. Design (in every respect) is one of the major areas associated with web 2.0.
Many stories of the past few years are explained like this: web 1.0 idea + great design (usability + …) = success. Increasingly we’re seeing design fuel industry changing innovation across a wide range of markets. It’s only […]
- Songs of the Year - Best of 07: Number 9
“Walk away now, and you’re gonna start a war.”
The National’s 2006 album, Alligator, is an album that needs to be chewed on in order to be fully embraced. It’s thick and rich and heavy.
Boxer, their follow-up album released this year, was similar though failed to produce the same results. Filled with complex lyrics delivered […]
- Songs of the Year - Best of 07: Number 10
The year is 2001. The setting is Kingston, Ontario, a beautiful old town with bitterly cold winters and chilling winds, located at the tip of Lake Ontario.
Your author, a 19 year old first year student, is tucked away in a small dorm room on the 6th floor of Vic Hall. It’s the beginning of […]
- Themes for 2008
I’m not a soothsayer I just play one on this blog. In the days (let’s be realistic) weeks ahead I’m going to share some thoughts on what we’ll see in 2008. Here’s what’s coming:
1) What my mom can teach us about technology adoption.
2) Zach Morris and the most important social graph.3) How everyone in […]
- Songs of the Year - Best of 07
Time to blow the dust off of this thing and revisit the songs that provided the soundtrack for 2007. Remember the rules:
1) Albums are dead. Tracks are all that matter.
2) It doesn’t have to be a song from this year. I had to discover it this year.
We’ll start the countdown tomorrow. “Sophomore jinx […]
