Another idea spurred by that Clay Shirky post I mentioned a little while ago. I think a big takeaway here is that we have to be careful when we look for or label something “revolutionary”. Mainly because if something really is revolutionary, then it’s definitely going to screw things up, at least for a little [...]

I just read this really great piece from Clay Shirky about newspapers and “the unthinkable”. It’s a little on the longer side, but if you haven’t read it yet, you definitely should. His post got me thinking: I have to say that right now I don’t think newspapers will continue to exist. At least not [...]

And no, I’m not talking about anything related to Watchmen. I’m talking about The End in a grow, seize the day, adapt, change, move, “Now is Gone”, type of way. Because, if we’re being honest, The End is always nigh. The End of Twitter being for early adopters. The End of your Mom not being [...]

I don’t think I’m alone in saying I love breakfast. I also know I’m not alone in thinking that fact that the “last call” for breakfast at most fast food places is way too early. And I feel like it’s getting earlier all the time. Seriously, who is ready for a Whopper at 10:30am? In [...]

Has anyone seen the new (starting in January on) issues of a lot of national magazines? It blows my mind to see how small they are. Wild to see how many ads were pulled after their year contract expired. The December issue of GQ is almost twice as big as the January issue. I still [...]

I was thinking the other day about the informational search process on the web. Basically I thought about two types of searches that people preform, and that lead me to an idea about Point B… The first type we’ll call a “closed query” because it has a definite answer. These are questions like: What’s the [...]

It seems like there’s always a fight for the best ideas. A war for intellectual capital, almost. It can get tiring trying to out-think everyone or to decide what everyone else would want if it was their choice. I think the answer is to take a step back. Sometimes the best idea is to realize [...]