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Youtube Kicks IE6 to the Curb.

So, this was the big news yesterday: YouTube has announced they are going to drop support for IE6, something that makes web designers and… Read More

The importance of observation

Business Week discusses the importance of taking your time to observe with decisions that aren’t your forte and ends up giving good advice in general. Read More

Venn Zen

Fantastic lessons from Bud Caddell: We’ve come across things people want us to do, that we do well (or at least better than the competition)… Read More

The Median Twitterer

From The Harvard Business Review: Among Twitter users, the median number of lifetime tweets per user is one. This translates into over half of… Read More

Forget “conventional wisdom”: it’s the older folks who dig Web 2.0

I love to see “conventional wisdom” myths get busted, so I was really excited to see that Social Computing Journal recently published a fascinating article… Read More

Contextual Economics: “Economics as if people mattered.”

Maybe the best thing to come out of the current recession is a return to common sense. More and more it seems like people are… Read More

Carton’s Laws of Cyberpunditry

Hey, I’ve done it. I’ve spent lots of time hanging out with these folks. I know these are true. I offer these as a public… Read More

Happy Earth Day!

Well, Earth Day is finally here and the world has gone green. Even Oprah is on the solar-powered eco-wagon these days, with… Read More

It’s Broken

In a fantastic and still relevant talk from 2006, Seth Godin discusses broken design with the same frustration I feel on a day to… Read More

Do they get a 20% refund on that rebrand?

Ouch. Remember the rebrand of Tropicana that went horribly wrong? A few weeks ago (yes, I know I’m bringing up the rear on this)… Read More