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Archive for October, 2005

My First Krispy Kreme

Thursday, October 27th, 2005

So I just ate my very first Krispy Kreme today. I’ve never had one before, and I thought I should do it soon before the company goes completely under.
Results: it was completely, absolutely, truly awful. It had the sort of unpleasant high-pitched faux sweetness you usually get from an excess of saccharin. [...]

Theory of Product Innovation, Part I: Definition

Sunday, October 23rd, 2005

This is the first part of what I think will be a 5 part series to build a crude theory of innovation. Ironically, there is nothing terribly novel about any of the individual ideas in I’m presenting here—and perhaps I’m even misusing the word innovation. I do hope however that my integration of [...]

All Hail Google… Well, Maybe Not

Saturday, October 15th, 2005

There’s an increasing trend I’ve been noticing out here on the net: a growing army of jabbering zombies regurgitating the same slavish uncritical adoration of Google. This level of uncritically always makes me a bit uneasy. Finally I’ve come across a refreshingly different take on Google. Perhaps the great Google might [...]

Relinquishing Control

Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

A scary but liberating aspect of web 2.0 is that it is going to force designers to start relinquishing control. I like that. The relationship between the designer and the user strikes me as very similar to the relationship between the author and the reader. And it has long been understood in literature that [...]