Archives for the 'Personal' Category
Breakthrough keynoter Nolan Bushnell interviewed on Dishymix!
I’m delighted to share with you that my friend Susan Bratton just posted her interview with Breakthrough keynote speaker Nolan Bushnell (the visionary behind Atari, Chuck E. Cheese, uWink and others businesses) on her Dishymix site. The interview is entitled “20 Start Ups Later, on Chemical Engines, Existentialism and ‘My Cave’”– you can learn more [...]
Short/Zen Post: The beautiful work of Ron Mueck
We’re all stressed out and working too hard to go to a museum, so let the museum come to you. Here’s how. First, if you’re a Firefox user, download and install the Cool Iris plugin that can turn your browser into a never-ending wall of images (Thank You, Mark Silva, for introducing me to this). [...]
Child Endangerment Porn, or, my problems with “Slumdog” and “Dollhouse”
A friend with a good track record of Oscar predictions thinks “Slumdog Millionaire” will win best picture, best director and best screenplay. My wife and I left the theater an hour into the movie. We walked out at the moment (mild spoiler alert) when the Fagin-like beggar king and his cronies were about to maim [...]
3 Keys to a Good Conference Panel
[Cross posted with the iMedia Connection blog.] I produce, attend, speak at and moderate panels at conferences many times each year, and while nothing is quite as bad as a horrible keynote address, time and again panel discussions prove the most challenging, bouncing-on-the-high-wire-without-a-net piece of each day. Here are 3 things that make a successful [...]
Zipless grocery shopping and the impact on a brand
[Cross-posted with the iMedia Connection blogs.] Acute guilt stabbed into me — twice! — during a late-night jaunt to my local Ralphs, and the funny thing is that I wound up blaming Ralphs for my own actions. Is this is a story about a brand hurting itself or one about my own bad behavior? First [...]
