Archive for November 6th, 2004
Jan Wong’s Ideas from China: In Tianjin, a city of 13 million people, traffic lights display red or green signals in a rectangle that rhythmically shrinks down as the time remaining evaporates. In Beijing, some traffic lights offer a countdown clock for both green and red signals. During a red light, you know whether you [...]
Fabio Rojas: I’ve recently been reading about the work of Felix Gonzales-Torres, an artist in the 1990′s who made a big splash in the art world. Like many artists, he really loathed the art world and the system of galleries, museums and universities but he ultimatey realized you have to deal with the world of [...]
BloggerCon Thanks to Dave Winer
Dave, Thanks for putting together such a wonderful conference. It was my first BloggerCon and I met loads of interesting people. My life is richer for attending and I hope that you put together another one soon. I know that sometimes members of the blogosphere don’t seem to appreciate everything you’ve done to get us [...]
Entrepreneur Blog: “Is there a new market you could be targeting your product to if you made a slight modification to it? That’s what Wheat Montana Farms did. Targeting empty nesters, singles and other small households, the Helena, Montana, company is marketing half-sized loaves of bread with eight slices and two heels. The half-loaves have [...]
Why to Go to Work for Yourself
Chuck Huckaby: “Could it be that if there were fewer taxes, fewer barriers to business ownership, fewer regulations, that people would actually have more money to enjoy?”
Introducing Your Kids to Entrepreneurship
Bob Shaver taught his daughter about entrepreneurship by helping her start a business when she was 8 years old. How are you helping to prepare the next generation of entrepreneurs?
I’m at BloggerCon and will be posting some notes about it in this entry. This is my first time sitting in an Aeron chair. I don’t see the point. Lots of Macs. Maybe 75%. Lots of convention photos are popping up on Flickr. I’m in the “Newbies” session with Rebecca MacKinnon right now. Lots of [...]
