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Freemium business model – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (tags: business bizdev model freeconomics) Business Models on the Web | Professor Michael Rappa (tags: business bizdev model)

Pygmalion effect – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (tags: learning psychology cognition)

What It Costs Us – washingtonpost.com chalk one up to “clean burning” coal. pssht. (tags: cleancoal)

flickr credit: Nathan Wells I can’t believe I didn’t know about this before, considering Lego has been doing it since the late 90s. The folks at the Lego group are doing some pretty innovative stuff for multiple companies. This is an interesting new case study on multiple levels. Lego Serious play is a consultative service [...]

WordPress designing themes (tags: wordpress theme design) ThoughtAudio.com – an audio book publisher providing free audio book downloads and podcasts of philosophy and classic literature titles. (tags: free mp3 audio download)

photo credit: servo. Today, at the Institute of Design, Chris Bernard, Joe Dizney, and David McGaw held a Teaming workshop, that was illuminating and a very welcome start to the school year. Classes here start on Monday, and everyone is looking to start the year off with good team practices. We started the workshop with [...]

A Guide to Creating a Minimalist Home | zen habits (tags: minimal Simplicity zen home architecture psychology design reference) 53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without | CSS (tags: CSS Reference Design WebDesign)

Shanghai pollution hits male fertility What is the final incentive that the government needs to create legislation that will prevent pollution at this massive scale?   I am not an agriculture expert, but I wonder if it is already too late to start having more organic food that is pesticide free in the urban areas. How [...]

Originally uploaded by Michael Sarver Recently, I’ve garnered a deeper appreciation for the various types of coffee that exist in the world. I can’t say that my days of merely ordering the plain (sludge) coffee– to keep things simple, are completely gone, but suffice it say that I have ventured out into the world of [...]

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IDESiGN (tags: design thinking teaching creativity)

You will probably find this as interesting as I did. This is a poster in a rural household that I got a chance to take a picture of. I didn’t take pictures of all the posters in all the households I had been to, but suffice it to say images like the one on this [...]