Morrie the Toupee Salesman

Product design is an interesting field I know little about, and I will admit to struggling with. In the web 2.0 world, with wikis, and mashups, and blogs, twitters, content management systems, ajax and comet, and so on, it’s hard to know what’s a really useful advance in technology, and what’s just someone repackaging and [...]

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From Jeremy Liew, who does great analysis.

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is being used on this site (it’s the second one on the page). No credit except that clicking on it goes to my original.

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According to the Guardian, anyway.

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My name is pretty common in Ireland, so it was probably a good idea to come to North America early in life. I think my life would have been different if I had gone through it with the equivalent of “John Smith” for a name.

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is something I’ve been known to do. Something that has been bugging me lately is this post from 2006 by Daniel Burka, the designer behind digg. While browsing through the first edition of CSS Cookbook, a book published in 2004, I see what the irritant is – Daniel’s post is essentially the same as Recipe [...]

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Warning: Stultifying academic prose at all these links. Learning to Govern? Venture Capitalists and the Replacement of Founder-CEOs in IPO Firms (MS Word Doc ) Rites of Passage: Managing CEO Transition in Venture-Backed Technology Companies (This one includes an annoying “please spam me” form before you can get to the paper but it’s freely available [...]

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…according to the NYT. Gwynne Dyer used to advance a theory (in his TV series “War”) that said that the vast majority of crime is caused by soldiers returning from war. Seems like affirmation (see also “American Gangster“). Its a fascinating theory — essentially the structured breakdown of an individual’s ethics that is basic training [...]

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Half A Bridge, originally uploaded by ojbyrne.

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Henry Blodget has the bad news. Shouldn’t be too long till tumbleweeds return to South Park.

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