From the category archives:
Pictures, words, ideas. If one picture equals 1,000 words, how many ideas does it generate? Is there a transitive property there? I had time over the weekend to pick up two unrelated pictures. Each covers something entirely different. Both are full of ideas.
The first, a chart by Seth Godin:
This is one of those things that [...]
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Committees don’t make great software. It takes a single person, an author. Maybe he gets some help. Teams don’t do it. Nobody sees the whole elephant.
I’m pretty sure I heard that basic sentiment first in about 1986, from Dave Winer, who was then the author of a Macintosh outlining program named More (now he’s better [...]
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Somebody asked me recently how my background relates to programming computers, and software. That’s hard to explain, given that I majored in Literature as an undergrad, then got an MA in Journalism, then an MBA. None of that says programming.
In my case it was like falling in love. I first used word processing when I was still [...]
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Ah yes, the good old days. How quickly time passes. My youngest graduated from college last weekend. She can barely remember life before cellphones, and can’t remember life before personal computers or VCRs, because both of those were born before she was.
A graduation is a milestone event, and milestone events generate this kind of thinking. [...]
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I love twitter. What blogging is to email, Twitter is to instant messaging (IM) … and then some. You can follow me on Twitter as Timberry. I’m like a fish with a shiny new thing. And, with due respect to the MSNBC line (if you don’t get it, you’re too old) — I’m 61. But [...]
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Consider these predictions. They’re all based on identifiable trends. Ask yourself how this affects you, your business, and your business future: In 10 years, the number one English-speaking country in the world will be China. By 2011, 90% of all…
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We used to talk a lot about the “killer app” back in the early days of personal computing, late 1970s and early 1980s, when a killer application was something that would create a new market, or bring a technology into…
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As I think of the good reasons to go to a store to buy something, instead of over the Web, some of those reasons may go away in the future. There may be a new Web version of retail brewing….
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Could you list the top 30 high-tech innovations of the last 30 years? Number one on this list is Internet broadband. Followed closely by personal computers, mobile phones, and email. I got a press release in email; NPR releases its…
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I just read Netflix demolishes own business model on John Caddell’s blog and I think it’s very much worth passing on. John is posting about Netflix now working with various (he just installed a Roku digital video player at his…
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