I’ve heard TiVo and other personal video recorders are great. How it could change the way I watch TV. How I could skip and fast-forward commercials immediately returing to my favorite program. How this will force advertisers to pursue non-interruptive methods of getting their message across. Maybe make TV more like real life by exploring [...]
I blogged this live from MCAD’s auditorium. Cohesive, well-formed thoughts…pending…maybe. Juicy bites – definitely. Four Approaches to Comics: Animists; content over form, story speaks for itself Classists; form Iconoclasts; raw, honest, funny Formalist; inventor, scientists Comics = Sequential Art; as you move through space, you move through time The printing press formalized comic forms as [...]
There is something about it when a song comes on the radio that you haven’t heard and you catch yourself moving to it or singing it and you didn’t even know you knew it. May I repeat a song on the radio, I haven’t had that experience in a very long time and frankly, I [...]
I get the impression all our local web designers are anxious to create all our websites in Macromedia Flash. Best I can figure, it’s because they haven’t embraced the web. Yes, in Flash, everything is possible – just paper. There are 5 major reasons to avoid building your websites in Flash: It Re-invents the Interface [...]
Two services have recently arrived in town, both are pushing my favorite adage – “always charge for convenience” – in interesting directions: LoadPod- “Just got yourself a new iPod or iPod mini, but dreading the thought of ripping your massive collection of CD’s, one by one, and loading them into your iPod?” Yes, that’s right. [...]
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 [...]
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 forth [...]
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 [...]
SF Gate has a great follow up on my earlier Best Buy persona post Over the next few years, each of Best Buy’s 608 stores will focus on one or two of the five segments, with 110 stores scheduled to make the switch by February. Updating the stores to appeal to a specific customer segment [...]
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 [...]