I don’t know quite what to make of this except it makes my head hurt a bit to think about it and I’m pretty sure it’s a really cool idea.  A student at MIT is hosting a time traveler party on a specific date at a specific location.  The location […]

AdAge reports on how the average American spends their time each day.  The top three – sleeping, working and watching TV.  Here’s a chart and the full article (free subscription required). via [TV Squad]

Just made my post-lunch pilgrimage to Starbucks for some refueling and encountered two oddities.  First, they were prominently displaying a new plastic beverage bottle with an attached screw-on cap.  Printed on the accompanying tag was, "Not intended for hot liquid."  Do they mean like…I don’t know…coffee?  Huh?  Second, my horoscope […]

Lifehacker points to an academic paper by a professor at the University of Baltimore on the science behind, and dos/don’ts of, leadership decision making.  There’s something in there for all of us, I’d say.

Brand Autopsy points to a strategic planning, branding and communications consultancy called Just Ask a Woman that has a very interesting twist on the traditional focus group.  They create a talk show environment populated with “audience members” (rather than respondents).  This shift of perspective seems like it could lead to […]

AP reports, “A man convicted in the nation’s first felony case against illegal spamming was sentenced to nine years in prison Friday for bombarding Internet users with millions of junk e-mails.”  They believe he was responsible for 10 million emails a day and through fraud and deception grossed up to $750,000 per […]

As much as I’ve been advocating that junk food stop being pushed on our kids (more here and here), I’m not sure how I feel about Sesame Street’s Cookie Monster eating less cookies and instead opting for fruits and veggies, even going as far as saying “A Cookie Is a […]

Excellent post by Seth Godin on taking responsibility and thinking about how your customers (and people in general) feel when something doesn’t go quite right (or even terribly wrong).

I read a very timely post today from Creating Passionate Users. I have been looking for a way to better document both existing projects and product/strategy brainstorming sessions.  I have been familiar with the concept of mind mapping, but never really tried to use the technique.  Creating Passionate Users linked […]

Had a great time last night in Portland getting to know Bren (the Slacker Manager) and Jon (the Business Evolutionist) in person.  We had really interesting discussions about balancing life, work, blogging, etc.  We are all at different places with those challenges, but each knew what the other was talking […]