Minneapolis has been ranked as the #1 literate city in the United States by a UW Whitewater study. While this is certainly interesting news, sadly, those literate folks that might want to read this study but have less-than-stellar eyesight can’t since the entire site consists of images without a single alt attribute to be found.
Many web folks have the book How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built on their bookshelves. The parallels between building architecture and web architecture are many.
Another one of my favorite architecture publications is Fine Homebuilding. While it’s billed as a trade rag for professional builders, it’s actually a magazine that nicely fills the void [...]
In following up from my earlier post on Pine & Gilmore’s The Experience Economy.
First off, the book feels quite timely, only the statistics the expose 1999 publish date. Secondly, Minnesota businesses are continually lifted up as examples of good experiences; Geek Squad, Cabela’s, and the Minnesota Renaissance Festival are all discussed before the [...]
JenB and I discovered we both have an unread version of Gilmore and Pine’s Experience Economy. I thought it’d be a good idea to take advantage of this coincidence and informally kickoff the roundtable book club.
So, head over to your favorite book store (online, used, full-price big box, or comfortable mom-n-pop shop) and pick [...]
Finished reading the The Adrian Mole Diaries over the weekend.
Ahhh, to be an oblivious, self-involved teen again. It really took me back. The formal English, as it often does, amplified the humor. Not such a complementary view of Americans, but I could relate to it also.
It took me 2/3 of the book to [...]
I enjoy read fluffy business management books or serious non-fiction and generally shy away from fiction. I actually don’t remember the last time I read fiction. Seriously. Jen prefers fiction and doesn’t understand my aversion to it.
Last night, as an experiment, we decided to venture to the other side. Jen handed me The Adrian Mole [...]
I was reading McLuhan, Hot & Cool this morning. The prior owner underlined everything of importance. I wanted to click each passage.
Books are to difficult to annotate + they don’t know what you’re familiar with already. Books need to be smarter.