Posted in innovation on Aug 29th, 2008
This week’s New Yorker magazine has a profile on architect Santiago Calatrava. He discussed some amazing concepts about PURPOSE, which I found fascinating, especially when you consider its relation to publishing, both in print and on the web.
I would sum up his philosophy as follows:
It’s about the experience, not the artifact.
While his designs are sometimes […]
Posted in innovation on Aug 20th, 2008
Last week I made a silly purchase. I bought a 60 year old vacuum tube. But really, what I bought, was a story. A story of how to think about technology – how it is changing our lives – and how we should focus our online efforts to ensure we get:
All the BENEFITS and none […]
Posted in innovation on Aug 15th, 2008
Why do we watch the Olympics? What can someone in media and publishing learn from this event to help them succeed in their goals – in particular, transitioning an editorial and business model from print to web? My theory:…
We watch the Olympics to experience GREATNESS.
The Olympics challenge us. It inspires us. These athletes look past […]
Posted in magazines, innovation, web on Aug 8th, 2008
Me in 1994, laying out an issue of my zine.
I love magazines. When I was in college, my schoolwork took a backseat to my obsession:
Publishing My Own Magazine.
Of course, it was called a zine back then, which meant it was an underground, do-it-yourself product, created without commercial success in mind, driven by the passion of […]
Posted in innovation on Aug 2nd, 2008
On Monday, I took my brother to see Bruce Springsteen as a way to celebrate his birthday. But truth be told, I had an ulterior motive:
I wanted to experience GREATNESS.
I am not a huge Bruce fan, I generally like his music as much as the next person, and being from Jersey, take a certain amount […]
Posted in social media, customer experience, innovation on Jul 18th, 2008
I am not a first adopter. I look for trends when new services or products reach the “tipping point,” and begin making sweeping behavioral changes within what I would call “average” Americans.
Today I want to talk about Facebook, the social network that started out for college students, and has spread well beyond.
FACEBOOK CHANGED MY LIFE.
It’s […]
Posted in mobile, innovation on Jul 10th, 2008
A month ago the iPhone 3G was announced.
During the announcement presentation, the Internet was sometimes described as a “cloud,” that can store information, and is universally present.
And I can’t help but feel that soon, we will all live in the clouds.
Clouds that follow us, and become the center of our lives.
Your files and documents will […]
Posted in innovation on Jul 8th, 2008
This week I am reading "The Pixar Touch," which gives a detailed history of the company. One great nugget:
"The odysseys of… Pixar as a whole, bring to mind the observation of the maverick economist Joseph Schumpeter that successful innovation "is a feat not of intellect, but of will." Writing about the psychology of entrepreneurs in […]
Posted in innovation on Jul 6th, 2008
I am reading the book Blue Ocean Strategy. It centers on the metaphor that red oceans represent the market space where all of your competitors operate. It is red, because it is bloody with competition. (sorry about the graphic imagery, I didn’t write the book!) On the other hand, blue oceans are uncontested new markets […]
Posted in innovation on Jul 3rd, 2008
"Have nothing in your houses that
you do not know to be useful
or believe to be beautiful."
– William Morris
People don’t read online, they scan. They are offered unlimited options on where to click, or what to search on. Their lives are busy; their minds are full; their TiVo is calling.
So how do we create articles […]
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