It’s The Tools, Stupid

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Image via Wikipedia Everything I've ever learned about technology started with reading Steven Levy. Sometimes, though, I wish I hadn't learned so much because now I expect everyone to get technology the way he did -- and does. I'm oftentimes energized by reading smart people discussing the future of media even when I'm ...

The Innovator’s Dilemma: How You Know When You’re Screwed

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Image via Wikipedia Part of my lectures on the future of media are spent railing against newspapers companies inability to innovate in publishing, the very field they are the so-called experts in. How, I ask, could a newspaper not have invented one of the first blogging content management system? These are simple ...

Washington Post Scribe Canned for Personal Blog Or When Personal is Political.

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

I'm reading this recap of the Michael Tunison tale with a head shake. The news aide was fired from the Washington Post after his editors found out -- and by found out, I mean they read his blog where the writer disclosed who he was -- that Tunison was blogging about ...

All Lifestreaming Needs is Air

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

The first time a designer discussed Adobe's AIR with me I was convinced it would change the way we surfed the Web. The open interface (you can develop your own front end to any website), the desktop application, the opportunity to aggregate loads of information in one place -- how could ...