Dec 29, 2009

EVERYONE LOVES INNOVATION… UNTIL IT AFFECTS THEM! “The big­gest obs­ta­cle to busi­ness model inno­va­tion is not tech­no­logy: it is we humans and the ins­ti­tu­ti­ons we live in. Both are stub­bornly resis­tant to expe­ri­men­ta­tion and change.” Saul Kaplan Cur­rent suc­cess pre­vents com­pa­nies from asking them­sel­ves how...

Dec 4, 2009

You, Your­sel­ves, and Facebook One of my stu­dents at Com­Dig is wri­ting a paper about the mul­ti­ple per­so­na­li­ties we have and how we are using those per­so­na­li­ties in the digi­tal world. Rese­ar­ching on the sub­ject I found this inte­res­ting blog post by Marc Fenigs­tein where he talks about the impor­tance of this move­ment,...

Dec 4, 2009

What many think of as an aesthe­tic pro­fes­sion has become so much more. By Andrian Kreye* There are few pla­ces oozing tra­di­tion like Oxford’s Ran­dolph Hotel. During the TED­Glo­bal con­fe­rence you would pass the res­tau­rant where tea sandwi­ches are ser­ved on ornate étagè­res and enter a thic­kly car­pe­ted room full of...

Nov 20, 2009

The 65 Most Annoying things about the Web Today. by Bra­dley Heb­don. We’ve come a long way on the web today. Or have we?  While we’ve inno­va­ted in many areas, we’ve also con­ti­nued to dis­re­gard pre-existing issues. And in some cases, we have also cre­a­ted new ones. Here is my list of the top 65 most annoying things about the web...