BlogFood for thought

From PSFK: At PSFK Conference NYC, Danielle Sacks (Fast Company) led a thought-provoking discussion about the rise of the “New Idea Agencies” – companies that are thinking outside of the traditional client-agency model and creating their own products, brands, and intellectual property to launch direct to market. The panel, featuring Robbie Vitrano (Trumpet), Carl Johnson (Anomaly), [...]

There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done. There is no editing stage. Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if [...]

Springwise recently launched a Small Business Marketing Guide with its advertising partner Federated Media. The guide, which focuses on “DIY brand marketing strategies to help you grow your business” is sponsored by Hewlett-Packard, and features articles by bloggers like Duct Tape Marketing‘s John Jantsch, NOTCOT‘s Jean Aw and Guy Kawaski. It’s an example of Federated Media’s innovative approach to marketing in the blogosphere—helping [...]

Nerds got computers because they liked them. Then gamers got them to play games on. But it was connecting to other people that got everyone else: that’s what made even grandmas and 14 year old girls want computers. (Paul Graham)

In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinating case studies, Boyle explains why gene sequences, basic business ideas and pairs of musical [...]

The best measure of a blog is not how many people it reaches, it’s how much it changes what you do. Changes your posture, your writing, your transparency, your humility. What blogging has done for me is made me think. I get to think about how the outside world will understand something I’m trying to [...]

Vogue Paris had a very interesting editorial featuring a series of photographs of the 20-years-old model  Eniko Mihalik portrayed in the age of 10, 20, … 50, 60 respectively. It’s quite amazing how the overall look can be so malleable, achieved (perhaps not so) simply with tricks of the trade like hairdo, facial expression, make-up, [...]

From Linda Tischler (Fast Company, Senior Writer): Marcel Wanders talked about the fairy tale that informed the design of the new Mondrian Hotel in Miami, and the fear he has to face down every time he begins a new project. John Maeda spoke of design’s hidden return on investment –  its impact on an organization’s [...]