— Archive for 2009 —

• Communications: The Mortal Sins Of Chart Design

  The Business Insider reminded me of these sins of chart design. Great visual communication has become so much more important in the Internet Age. Readily made graphics, charts, and illustrations spin out of the computers of design professionals so quickly that the new standard is a continually raised bar. Interestingly, pictures and words are not, [...]

  Oct 8

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• Nobody’s hiring

  It’s been said that there are only two stories in American journalism: “Oh, the wonder of it all!” and “Oh, the shame of it all!” Similarly, there are only two stories in business journalism: “We’re crashing!” and “We’re getting rich quick!” So when times turn bad, the press lays it on thick with the stories [...]

  Oct 8

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• The Genius of Steve Jobs

  Harry over at Technologizer pulled a host of Apple patents to illustrate the mad genius of Steve Jobs. He’s even got patents on stairs!

  Oct 7

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• I Dreamed a Dream: The Tracklist!

  My hero Susan Boyle will be out with her first album on November 24th in the US! I must admit I was obsessed with SuBo when she broke on the world stage — I probably watched that video of her 150 times… really. I even wrote about her in my weekly newsletter at TheLadders.com. Here’s [...]

  Oct 7

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• Manhattan real estate hits the skids

  Rental rates in Manhattan office space have dropped 45% from their peak. This should imply another enormous wave of defaults coming our way as landlords burn through their cash cushions in the next 12-24 months. Some people feel that Manhattan is hitting bottom, but with slow information discovery of financial distress in the real-estate market, [...]

  Oct 7

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• Do We Need a 37-Cent Coin?

  Geeks and social engineers are forever trying to optimize life and living in non-conventional, non-traditional ways. (Like the physicist who attempted to live on a 26-hour cycle but finally gave up because rising with the sunset was too depressing). The gents over at Freakonomics point out another — optimizing our currency for the expected least [...]

  Oct 7

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• 59 Seconds: The gratitude attitude

  Can the simple act of writing down things for which we are grateful lead to a better attitude in life?

  Oct 7

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• Tap tap tap. Is this thing on?

  Apres hiatus, le deluge….

  Oct 6

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