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Lynne Kiesling I’ve been blogging for almost six years now (yikes!), first using Blogger and then under the Knowledge Problem brand using Movable Type. Movable Type is great, and it has served me well. But the programming environment has gotten more complicated over those six years, and while I am of a geeky bent, I’m …
Chris Masse at Midas Oracle links to “How Companies Are Using IT To Spot Innovative Ideas,” an article at Information Week. Among the examples cited: …Starbucks uses the same voting platform, at MyStarbucksIdea.com, and took an online suggestion posted Oct. 7 by BillMac to offer a free cup of coffee Nov. 4 to anyone in …
Crowdsourcing Can Produce New Ideas, but Run Them by Legal First… Read More »
Michael Giberson Texas, 33 yet Texas Tech, 39 Autumn weekend game Also see column by Ivan Maisel at ESPN.com. More.
Michael Giberson As mentioned earlier, since moving to Lubbock to teach at Texas Tech, I’ve been bike commuting. This is actually not much of a sacrifice most of the time; it is only about a mile from home to office, and the trip takes me only 10 minutes on the bike. One week I acquired …
Lynne Kiesling Headed home from a week’s vacation in England, which is the reason for my radio silence here! I was going to post, but traveling with the KP Spouse and two of our best friends meant for a fun and busy schedule! The primary event of/reason for the trip was Hamlet at the Royal …
Michael Giberson Texas Monthly magazine profiles Boone Pickens. Here’s a sample: In addition to the advertising campaign, Boone is also laying out his energy manifesto in his latest memoir, The First Billion Is the Hardest, which Crown is releasing this month. (His first memoir, Boone, was published in 1987.) “The times require a George Patton, …
Boone Pickens – Texas Monthly on the Man Behind the Plan Read More »
Lynne Kiesling Are you looking to improve your productivity as we swing back into fall? I strongly recommend Evernote, as does the ever-helpful Lifehacker, in this useful post. Evernote is a dynamic, networked storage application, part notepad, part inbox, part storage box. It’s an application you download for local use on your desktop, and it …
Lynne Kiesling Virginia Postrel and Kate Coe have started Deep Glamour, which “explores the magic of glamour in its many manifestations, from movies, fashion, and advertising to real estate, politics, and sports.” Today Virginia has an energy-related post, about the visual elegance of wind turbines, and their use in advertising: These images epitomize grace, one …
Lynne Kiesling Last Thursday I was in New York at the final show of the reunion tour of my favorite band ever, at a big party with a bunch of folks who were also there courtesy of the world’s greatest drummer. If you look carefully behind Andy’s head in the picture above (taken from my …
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