A Better Course

I’ll Take My Infographic in Bright Orange, Men’s Medium | FlowingData – The Shirt Project, by Rich Watts and Louise Ma, takes the infographics out of the newspaper and puts them onto brightly colored tshirts. They put out a new shirt every couple of months I’ll Take My Infographic in Bright Orange, Men’s Medium | […]

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Chris Heathcote: anti-mega: this is not my beautiful house – Just as the words consumer and user are condesending to people, the word experience is condesending to the activity of people, or life. And it’s condescending to the people who work hard to create the products and services Chris Heathcote: anti-mega: this is not my […]

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swissmiss: RRRRING RRRRING by David Billy. (tags: art train words swissmiss)

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Versus CluClu Land: O Tempora! O Mores! (pt. 2) Some folks have lost sight of [functional] differences [and] believe that their choice of console reflects who they are as a person. Such is the power of branding when allied to that tendency which Shaftesbury and Hume called the “spirit of faction.” (tags: versusclucluland branding brand […]

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Chief Story Teller | RANDOM RANTINGS Stevie Spring, CEO of Future Plc (the magazine publisher), recently expressed [what CEOs do] to me in the following way: “I am not really the Chief Executive; I am the Chief Story Teller” (tags: leadership story freekvermeulen) Tough Times for eBay Entrepreneurs | Business Week “I suspect that probably […]

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Big Contrarian → Grok. At some point, the two agreed on what a “lightbox” was and what applying that to something meant. It might have been a project in their past, or a conversation they had over drinks… some bit of history created a shared pattern between those individu (tags: bigcontrarian communication design language thought) […]

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Why Analytical Applications Fail: Juice Analytics more often, users depend on the tool to track down an answer with only a vague idea of where to start. The exploratory analysis that follows can feel like swimming upstream when the application isn’t designed to facilitate the journey. (tags: design analytics data juiceanalytics) potlatch: why Google can’t […]

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“The War Prayer” | Mark Twain You have heard your servant’s prayer — the uttered part of it. […] You heard these words: ‘Grant us the victory, O Lord our God!’ […] Upon the listening spirit of God fell also the unspoken part of the prayer. He commandeth me to put it into words. (tags: […]

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FreshNetworks Blog » Blog Archive » How luxury brands can benefit from online communities We’ve found that companies who allow comments on their own site see a marked increase in conversion to sale. And when given the chance to rate a product or service online, customers are overwhelmingly more positive than negative. (tags: freshnetworks luxury […]

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Michael Bay’s Rejected “The Dark Knight” Script – The Spill.com Movie Community “We think we’re going to take this in a different direction” (tags: spill batman movie darknight michaelbay parody funny)

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