This is my archive

The Most Important Thing I Ever Learned About Getting A Job or How to Get Your Foot In The Door By Not Being a Moron

One of the most important lessons about business I ever learned happened one morning in my friend Dan’s kitchen when I was 17. We were… Read More

Are captchas getting harder?

I have noticed lately that Captchas, those ubiquitous letter-images designed to fool computers (but supposedly readable by humans) have been getting absolutely… Read More

Amazon Owns Me

Amazon is slowly but surely taking over my life. If you look at the pie chart on my online banking, you’ll see… Read More

BBC Redesign

Even if you are on the far end of regularity when it comes to reading news on the internet, you probably end… Read More

Visual Searching

As the amount of information continues to grow on the internet, it is becoming harder and harder to find stuff. As you know, necessity is… Read More

The Dumb Internet Trend is Dead! Long Live the Dumb Internet Trend!

Just when you thought the whole “open a storefront in Second Life!” B.S. might have cured us of our overestimation of Dumb Internet Marketing… Read More

Contextual Advertising Hilarity: Thomas Edison State College

Wow. I’m really glad that we’re not running the online campaign for Thomas Edison State College, an institution which bills itself as “Higher Education… Read More

SixSigma and Zappos: Picking and Choosing and Capitalizing

General Electric’s SixSigma has been pounded into the minds of business students for countless decades. SixSigma is all about the endless quest for perfection. Read More

Know Your Users – It Matters

There is an interesting article published on Boxes and Arrows a couple of weeks ago that I wanted to share with you. The article… Read More

Baltimore Sun’s flimsy new paper – “B”

In an effort to compete with the relatively new, tabloid-style Baltimore “Examiner”, the Baltimore Sun has launched its own new paper, inexplicably called “b”. Its… Read More