Shared by Moah Matrix-ish? I don’t know my sci fi movies that well. Off to look for the youtube clip of this. During last night’s election coverage, I found myself bouncing around from high-def channel to high-def channel, seeing what ABC, CNN, Fox, and MSNBC had to offer. I already knew that CNN correspondent John [...]

Shared by Moah This book is going into my reading list. I can’t believe I’ve never heard of ‘The Mother of All Demos’. It also makes me feel like I am not crazy when I cook up seemingly impossible product features and interfaces. 40 years later, people will be using them. HCI Remixed covers all [...]

Shared by Moah Amazon is Finally getting rid of excessive and frustrating packaging style. Not sure when it came out but this is awesome. Good for earth, good for my hands. The Frustration-Free Package (on the left) is recyclable and comes without excess packaging materials such as hard plastic clamshell casings, plastic bindings, and wire [...]

In what could be seen as a victory for doers, and a bit of a setback for thinkers, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has made a rather significant ruling on what is and isn’t patentable. The court ruled against a man who was attempting to patent “a method for hedging against [...]

For the last couple of days we’ve been asking people: how do you cope with all the info that bombards you through your RSS feeds, Twitter and similar services? When you’re young and eager to soak in as much info as you can, you’re happy to be flooded with the stuff. But, it can’t go [...]

Shared by Moah this is big news for interactive data visualization going main stream. Many Eyes is established and respected within the field but nowhere near main stream. And NY Times is respected by experts as the media company with strong visualization talent. Now they collaborate and it’s a mutually beneficial relationship. It was just [...]

Shared by Moah who knew Harley was among the first in cultivating a loyal customer community. From 1973-1983, Harley-Davidson’s market share went from 78% to 23% as Japanese manufacturers flooded the market with high quality, low priced bikes. Unable to compete on price against the Japanese producers, Harley had to establish other market values and [...]

Shared by Moah OpenID is starting to get traction. Athought the UI still needs to be improved, I hope it takes off. The second most interesting announcement out of PDC this morning is that Windows Live ID is becoming an OpenID Provider. The information below explains how to try it out and give feedback to [...]

I wish I had written this. Sasha did. Check him out. I’m sick of apologizing for being in charge of raising money.  I work at a great nonprofit organization (1) that is doing great things in the world, one that’s attacking daunting problems in a powerful new way.  I believe in what we do, and [...]