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Attention venture capitalists that have some extra money to throw around, or motivated and interested entrepreneurs: You should invest in creating a good auction site. Wha-What’s that you say, eBay already exists and has monopolized the online auction market? Have you ever tried to USE eBay recently? as a buyer OR a seller? The user [...]

I’ve learned from working with the experts in human inquiry methods at the Institute of Design a lot about learning about patterns of daily human life. As we know, there’s very little asking of questions necessary in most interviews on the researcher’s part. Lately I’ve been looking into more participatory approaches into design, which somehow [...]

Daily Show and Colbert on Hulu. My decision to renounce TV years ago vindicated once more.

This summer semester I’m taking a global sustainability class and I was just reading about Farming the Cities. Urban farming is generally pretty awesome, I can’t wait for it. In a way, it might render the areas outside of major cities mostly useless. Well that’s harsh, I shouldn’t say useless; But certainly undesirable. The only [...]

Ok, explain to me… why WOULDN’T it have a cut and paste functionality, remind me again? I mean… c’mon! If you’re going to make it a fully featured mobile device, you better have the basic functions that I’d use between Safari and mail, like copy and paste. …and THAT’s why I’m not going to get [...]

When I was wee little lad, I loved this book so much. It’s a book in the time machine series (of which I’ve read quite a bit), it’s from the makers of choose your own adventure. Back before the interactive days of the internet, Choose Your Own Adventure books were the best way to keep [...]

When I was at Veggie Bite on Milwaukee the other night (I love that place now, in case you haven’t noticed)… I saw this guy with a rickshaw charging a small fare for carting people around in this little contraption. It reminded me of India of course, when I saw it, but then I thought [...]

I didn’t fully appreciate the lessons that I received from Larry Keeley’s Innovation Frontiers class last semester until I started to explore the X-prize model in depth. Listen to their elevator statement: “The mission of the X PRIZE Foundation is to bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. The Foundation fosters innovative, high-profile [...]