Category: Random Thoughts

Buzz let me know about this: Innovation Conference in Melbourne I’ve been talking with a few guys like Buzz Bruggeman, Frank Arrigo and Mick Stanic about running a conference in Melbourne around the Nov/Dec timeframe that focuses on IT innovation. The theme I’m particularly interested in is “examining which businesses are putting into practice relatively…

Hilariously self-referential/recursive Fark photoshopping contest  Mack sez, “Fark is hosting a magnificently self-imploding thread of Photoshop mashups based on the New York Post’s erroneous July 6 headline proclaiming that John Kerry had chosen Dick Gephardt as his running mate. Scroll down and let the thread’s developing visual syntax make you dizzy …” Link (Thanks, Mack!)…

Tom blogs on not letting the bed bugs bite…even if they’re there. A brief introduction to Appreciative Inquiry and Positive Psychology [via Tom Munnecke]

Dean Landsman has a new blog, and his current entry discusses Moveable Type’s new distribution. Freeware? Shareware? Open Source Development and the Economic Distribution Model Over at Doc Searls’ IT Garage, in a piece called Applying Freedom, Doc began a conversation about “Freedom Zero.” Mark Pilgrim had originated the Freedom Zero discussion on his blog. An…

The population of deer in New Jersey is something like 200+ deer per square mile, which is particularly bad if they happen to live in your square mile. Deer, to some, are nice and pretty and such, but to me they’re nothing more than long-legged rodents with good PR. In that regard, they’re not that…