We create the stories of the connected society

TBD lives up to its mushy ambition.

One way or the other, Flipboard will make you flip. The new Pad app is either the personalized, social magazine you’ve been waiting for. Or it’s just another slick, content thief that fails to deliver on a fresh promise. At first flip, Flipboard is stunning (you have to download the app; the website is a [...]

Join us for creative chilling and a meetup at WeSpace at Lake Anne in Reston on August 7.

Our new co-working office in Reston, Virginia, provides an inspiring “place” and a community for independent professionals who find they work better together than they do alone.

Ask questions, raise issues, arrange meet-ups, provide feedback or note key findings for innovation. Just bring your iPad to TRDC and download the Disruptathon app. Or use an iTouch provided at the conference.

Download the Oh!magination app for free when you attend Tabula Rasa DC on june 14.

Join connoisseurs of creativity for an iPad tasting from 1-4:30 pm, June 14 at Gannett headquarters in McLean, Va.

This is one of those moments – an important shift in digital culture that will be old news and obvious to everyone a few years from now.

I am excited to announce the launch of a new project that we are calling WeThink. What is it? WeThink is a conversation about innovation and the future — an effort to explore new ideas and promote solutions to the challenges that our society is facing. What’s the big deal? If you follow our work [...]

The biggest surprise from yesterday’s unveiling of Apple’s iPad was that print publishers and journos weren’t terribly excited. “Waiting to be surprised. That hasn’t happened yet,” said Jim Roberts, the only New York Times wonk who didn’t confuse Steve Jobs with Moses. Valleywag has a good take on Print Media’s Big Tablet Letdown. Our enthusiasm [...]

New technology spawns new ways to tell stories. That’s the exciting part of Apple’s new tablet, an old idea whose time has apparently come. Now comes the hard part: creating the content and designing the experience for the next wave of consumer devices that deliver our stories. We’re about to discover whether incumbent publishers and [...]

Before we’re swept away (oops, but that seems to have happened already) by the unveiling of Apple’s tablet we ought to pay homage to technologies before the iPad and visionaries before Steve Jobs. The original messiah machine: the Mac Plus. Introduced in 1986, this little beauty brought a revolution in publication design. It came standard [...]

The internet is a wondrous anomaly, a technical and creative achievement grander than the Tower of Babel, an infinite tangle of knowledge, ideals, data, entertainment, beauty, trivia, terror, news, noise, hubris, despair. It’s a cultural blender, a mixmaster archive crammed with visions, twits and everyday things.

A new design for Craigslist – better, easier and pure fantasy.

“Today is a good day to do big things,” Amanda said when she was eight. It was so profound that I wrote it down and saved  it. That was more than 20 years ago. She’s lived up to her words, but I seem to have let them slip over the years. Today I was given [...]