All this talk of news sites and product design and user experience… it got me thinking: Wouldn’t it be fun to have a sandbox to play in? Wouldn’t it be pleasant to try out some ideas? This summer, in the depths of my obsession, I had a few conversations with Adam Bachman and Jesse Kriss. [...]
Category Archives: Business
Dickens on managing a creative company
September 17, 2010 – 10:26 am
On work schedules: ‘Ye-es,’ returned Eugene, disparagingly, ‘[bees] work; but don’t you think they overdo it? They work so much more than they need—they make so much more than they can eat—they are so incessantly boring and buzzing at their one idea till Death comes upon them—that don’t you think they overdo it? And are [...]
A few quick thoughts on Twittereporting
September 16, 2010 – 2:32 pm
Having just written about my underwhelming experience with the paper version of the Baltimore Sun, I want to balance my account with a description of how that organization is doing something very very right, and doing it in a larger context that is very very interesting. The Story This morning around 11 AM a man, [...]
Every damn thing I do makes me think of product design.
September 12, 2010 – 10:47 pm
I ventured into the drizzle this morning to buy myself a Baltimore Sun. I wanted to see the new Sun Magazine. It was restored to life today after a fourteen year hibernation. I will admit to you some measure of excitement as I strode through an unexpectedly chilly rain. Is that nerdy? Perhaps that’s nerdy. [...]
Wherein I muse about business opportunities, problems that need solving, and Farmville
August 25, 2010 – 11:38 am