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Question of the Day: Battle of the Brews

Posted by on Dec 11, 2008 in Brands, Business, Creativity | 0 comments

McDonald’s has decided to pick a fight with Starbucks. In addition to offering espresso drinks to their billions of...

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Is creativity the key to economic success in a connected society?

Posted by on Dec 8, 2008 in Creativity, Innovation, Power & Policy | 0 comments

With the economy sputtering and job losses mounting, there is a lot of discussion right now about what kinds of jobs, and...

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Just in time for tonight’s debate: The Live Remix

Just in time for tonight’s debate: The Live Remix

Posted by on Oct 15, 2008 in Creativity, Culture, Technology | 1 comment

We’ve heard enough. That’s why we want – and get – something different from tonight’s final...

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Will printing drive new business to Scrapblog?

Posted by on Oct 7, 2008 in Business Models, Creativity, Design, Innovation, Technology | 0 comments

One of the loveliest social media startups I’ve run across in the last few years is Scrapblog. I say lovely because...

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Creative? Or crossing the line?

Creative? Or crossing the line?

Posted by on Sep 18, 2008 in Brands, Creativity, Design, Innovation, Journalism | 1 comment

PC pulls an advertisement in the guise of an editorial, called “Stop Switching to Mac”, from the sacrosanct news...

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Playing with Spore and messin’ with our gene pool

Posted by on Sep 11, 2008 in Creativity, Culture | 0 comments

Play is to our time what work was to the Industrial Society: our dominant way of knowing, doing and creating value. Now Spore...

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The seven senses of the world’s best-designed newspapers

The seven senses of the world’s best-designed newspapers

Posted by on Sep 9, 2008 in Creativity, Culture, Design, Innovation, Journalism | 0 comments

The Society of News Design has announced the World’s Best Designed Newspapers, an award I conceived as chair of...

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Inside the Eastern Media Elite

Posted by on Sep 5, 2008 in Creativity, Culture, Journalism, Power & Policy | 0 comments

You’ve got to know the secret handshake to fully appreciate this gem from www.washingtonpost.com...

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Charles Blow blogs by the numbers

Charles Blow blogs by the numbers

Posted by on Sep 2, 2008 in Creativity, Journalism, People, Skills | 1 comment

Our friend and former colleague Charles Blow has joined the blogging brethren with a discussion on all things statistical. A...

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Right-brainers rule. Dr. Design emerges from exile at SND.

Right-brainers rule. Dr. Design emerges from exile at SND.

Posted by on Aug 22, 2008 in Creativity | 0 comments

As news industry conferences go, this is the good one. The right-brainers who attend SND’s annual designfest have...

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W8 a minute, then LOL: Texting is good for you

W8 a minute, then LOL: Texting is good for you

Posted by on Aug 18, 2008 in Creativity | 0 comments

Just when you or your favorite school teacher thought there was no way in hell the English language could survive the...

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Adrian Holovaty: Changing the news one block at a time

Adrian Holovaty: Changing the news one block at a time

Posted by on Aug 18, 2008 in Creativity | 0 comments

Adrian Holovaty is the news industry’s favorite techie, even as he develops a kind of news that is changing the...

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Twist and shout: Tech’s terrible tyrants

Posted by on Aug 18, 2008 in Creativity | 0 comments

And you thought editors are jerks. ValleyWag celebrates the ten terrible tyrants of technology. Somehow Oracle’s Larry...

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12 weeks, 9 companies, 7 lessons from an incubator fund

12 weeks, 9 companies, 7 lessons from an incubator fund

Posted by on Aug 7, 2008 in Creativity | 0 comments

One of our partners, LaunchBox Digital, is an early-stage Internet startup incubator fund. It’s similar in structure to...

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