This weekend I am “BarCamping” on my home turf, i.e. it’s BarCamp Stuttgart time. Yesterday evening we started with a geeky and joyful get-together at the Ratskeller. You won’t find many pictures of that event, I guess for obvious and sensible reasons. Today it’s different and very productive but still I only did some tweeting [...]
Did I ever mention that I’m into comics? And that I even own and have read a book by Scott McCloud (“Comics richtig lesen – Die unsichtbare Kunst”, aka “Understanding comics“)? You ask Scott, huh? Yes, it’s the Scott that drew the Google Chrome cartooon/storyboard/instruction manual/viral bomb that’s ravaging across the net today (via, via, [...]
Hehe, love this “wiki” in quotation marks, still way to go to real mainstream adoption I guess, whatever Gartner says. But hey, this Studio 360 podcast with Christopher Alexnder is a good listen (mp3). Found via Victor. His groundbreaking book A Pattern Language urged architects consider emotional and spiritual ideas when designing. It was the [...]
Seems like an interesting read, The Social Origins Of Good Ideas by Ronald Burt, found via Stowe Boyd and his quotation of John Stuart Mills: „It is hardly possible to overrate the value … of placing human beings in contact with others dissimilar to themselves, and with modes of thought and action unlike those with [...]
Via Paul Williams I learned that CNBC is doing another series on innovation, it’s aimed at C-level and I welcome this quite a lot as it stresses the importance (yet, Paul has some criticisms too). But these episodes are worthwhile anyway, and I appreciate the effort (btw, back then I wrote some posts about their [...]
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