Sunshocked

This Wednesday I’ll be saying goodbye to my job of four years and striking out on my own. It should be a moment of exhilaration and celebration—except for the fact the U.S. financial market just cried Jenga! in the middle of my endeavor. Here are three reasons why I’m not crazy.

Vital systems, from the U.S. economy to the global food market, are failing all at once… according to the “glass is half empty” crowd anyway. The “glass is half full of yummy lemonade” perspective is that we’re merely going through some market corrections.

When I first got into branding, I was surprised to learn that there were many, many steps before designing a cool logo necessary for creating a successful brand. The first of which must solve the age old problem of scarcity of resources.

There needs to be a better word to describe companies that embrace community, clarity, and agility as a business model. Though they have nothing to do with Ruby on Rails, AJAX, or tag clouds, there’s something decidedly “Web 2.0″ about Nintendo lately.

Just the other day, I was having a discussion with a friend over whether she was anti-capitalist or post-capitalist. The latest issue of Adbusters comes to the rescue with a feature by Peter Barnes, author of Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons. His use of a software metaphor for a social institution had [...]

You may have already heard of Snakes on a Plane, a movie coming out today about one plane and more than one snake. It’s prevalence in the blogosphere has been oft noted by mainstream media. But why? What has caused blogs everywhere to embrace it knowing literally no more than the title and the star?

Back in the 1920s, Harold Hotelling made a strong case for making products similar to your competition. Very clever people immediately applied this Law to politics. Let’s take a look at how this has played out, shall we?