May 28th, 2007 by mdThere is a really sobering piece in today’s NYT (“As Allies Turn Foe, Disillusionment Rises in Some GI’s” – Michael Kamber, pA1.) on the rising disillusionment among GI’s who’ve discovered that Iraqi army soldiers — who’ve been receiving weapons and training from the US — are among the insurgent forces attacking US forces and civilians [...]
0 Comment » May 25th, 2007 by mdI don’t know why feral pigs are so interesting. To me, the pictures of them lying next to their killers are oddly compelling. I wrote about Hogzilla a while back and saw this AP story on Drudgereport today (one of the best sites on earth.) Truly a shocking story and image. I can’t wait for [...]
May 19th, 2007 by mdMy colleagues Bob, Perry, and I went for a week to the Higher College of Technology in UAE to teach a short seminar on Innovation and Product Design to a group of students and executives. It was a long, but really fun trip. The students were about 80% nationals, the remainder from elsewhere in the [...]
April 2nd, 2007 by mdIf you like Caravaggio, and even if you aren’t sure if you do, I highly recommend The Lost Painting by Jonathan Harr. It’s a really exciting story of the search for a long-missing painting by Caravaggio — The Taking of Christ — and it’s all true. There are lots of fun characters in the story, [...]
March 24th, 2007 by mdThis is one of the coolest things I have seen in a while. A friend recently told me about this as a way to gather feedback quickly and economically from real people.
Mechanical turk.
This platform allows a researcher (say a company, a product designer, an academic, even a computer etc.) to post a question or task [...]
February 11th, 2007 by mdThis is certainly worth reading. It’s a piece in today’s NYT by G. Pascal Zachary who teaches Journalism at Stanford. In it he addresses the question of why so much innovative company- and tech-building happens here in Silicon Valley.
Read the article here.
February 11th, 2007 by mdThere is a terrific piece by Duncan Watts in the Feb 1 issue of Nature on the value of the data generated by Internet-based communication and connection. He suggests that, if the social scientists can mine the data and create robust theoretical frameworks for human behavior, they can significantly improve our scientific understanding of how [...]
January 25th, 2007 by mdLynn’s training blog is so massively worth reading, I cannot recommend it highly enough.
Click here to read.
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