From Fast Company comes a short article about failure, called Failure Is Glorious: “The area of the ‘possible’ is the area in which we develop products that the customer will love and buy. The area of the ‘not possible’ is represented by the new projects that people are not yet ready to understand or accept. Working close to the borderline is very risky, because you cannot see it with your eyes. It is not clearly drawn or marked. You can only feel it by using sensibility and intuition — two characteristics rare in industrial organizations that are led by technology …
My friend in Montreal, Bob Hunt of Way Down Here, dropped everything he was doing and played this elegant little applet the other day. Taking his advice, I did the same, and was rewarded by an amazing little game. What is it that makes this so appealing? The music? The whimsy? The simple animation? Play it and then leave me a comment with your opinion. I want everything in my life to work this well. That link is why Way Down Here is one of my favourite Canadian blogs. In the spirit of lists, and inspired by Pollard, here are …
My buddy John Dumbrille hits on a nice, succinct argument for human scale on the web: “As humans and communities are organically linked – their evolution and decay is interdependent – it seems web communities mirror this very well, better than, say, super-sites that pump out syndicated content; and they are, consequently, more satisfying. I think it’s a mistake to see & market sites as independent destinations, just as it’s a mistake to define a human being without the context of his/her relationships.” Sweet.
Blogger let me down lately. Not able to FTP for a while…no clue why. We seem to be back in the saddle. There are a bunch of new blogs adorning the blogroll these days. In fact the blogroll is an eclectic mess, and the more I look at it, the more I love it. I have it set to list the blogs randomly every time the browser loads my page, so there’s always a new treat at the top of the list. At any rate, here are a couple of the newer additions: City Comforts Blog a blog about urban …
Today I finally received my HaidaBucks T-shirt in smart black with the logo and name prominant. And on Friday I ran into Cliff Fregin at the Vancouver airport, a friend and one of the original owners of Haida Bucks. He tells me all’s well that ends well, that Starbucks backed down and Haida Bucks has withstood the legal onslaught. They issued a press release in August stating: Lately, the coffee in Masset, a small town on the remote island of Haida Gwaii, tastes especially sweet. That’s because HaidaBucks, a small indigenous-owned coffee house and restaurant located there, is savouring its …