Commerce, industries, economics and the practice and implications of good old-fashioned capitalism.
Mon 04 Feb
2008
Where are the design advocates when a design-savvy company fails?
Wed 10 Oct
2007
When it’s time to change, you’ve got to rearrange. Unless you’re the New York Yankees.
Mon 20 Aug
2007
Why it’s good that the Internet is killing boutiques.
Wed 07 Mar
2007
Interrupting this program for a word from your blogger.
Thu 07 Dec
2006
Casting about for a replacement personal banking application.
Mon 06 Nov
2006
Life on the inside… of an in-house design group.
Mon 21 Aug
2006
Getting good design out of a surfeit of workplace meetings.
Thu 04 May
2006
First day of my first time at Creative Good’s Gel Conference.
Thu 13 Apr
2006
Things to look for when looking for things that make good design managers.
Mon 27 Feb
2006
Newsvine aims to hybridize the unwashed masses and the mainstream media.
Mon 12 Dec
2005
Customer service lines are user interfaces too.
Fri 08 Jul
2005
Billing customers got you down? Try Blinksale.
Sun 19 Jun
2005
A long-winded excuse for an extremely busy period of not doing anything on this Web site.
Mon 18 Apr
2005
Thoughts on Adobe’s announced acquisition of Macromedia.
Thu 27 Jan
2005
Tips on how to make a great impression when interviewed by yours truly.
Wed 31 Mar
2004
My award for the worst interface in a best-selling, market-leading software application goes to…
Thu 12 Feb
2004
Finally revealed: secrets to success with PowerPoint!
Fri 21 Nov
2003
The ghosts of a once-high flying dotcom haunts the Internet still.
Thu 17 Jul
2003
Two reasons why I’m sure there will be another Internet boom.
Tue 01 Jul
2003
Longtime, well-liked software publisher Casady & Greene have closed shop.
Mon 12 May
2003
The FCC is set to vote on significant changes in media ownership rules, virtually without public debate.
Sun 27 Apr
2003
The problem with the music industry is that the compact disc format itself has been completely devalued.
Mon 17 Feb
2003
A marriage made in heaven: Google has bought Pyra.
Fri 14 Feb
2003
Business Week calls the music industrys piracy numbers and credibility into question.
Tue 11 Feb
2003
Bob Hearn, co-creator of ClarisWorks, tells the story of that product and the almost-legendary Claris Corporation.
Tue 12 Nov
2002
The number one lesson Ive learned about business.
Tue 24 Sep
2002
The Chill Factor Web site collects frightening samples of the corporate worlds legal bullying.
Wed 28 Feb
2001
An unscientific visualization of whats happening with the Internet consulting industry