How to present
Not just because of what he’s saying (which IMO has at present little relevance to us at this stage of the game), but for how […]
The mess is the message
What do you want to watch? The answer used to depend on limits — what day it was, what time it was, what channels you […]
How to Wow ‘Em Like Steve Jobs
Sell the BenefitSteve Jobs does not sell bits of metal; he sells an experience. Instead of focusing on mind-numbing statistics, as most technologists tend to […]
Gates, Jobs, & the Zen aesthetic
As a follow up to yesterday’s post on Bill Gates’ presentation style, I thought it would be useful to examine briefly the two contrasting visual […]
Cognitive seduction (a Typology of User Experience Pleasures)
Is Sudoku seductive? Is chess sexy? Is crafting code a turn-on? To our brains, absolutely. But while most of us don’t use the word “seductive” […]
Angry/negative people can be bad for your brain
Everyone’s favorite A-list target, Robert Scoble, announced the unthinkable a few days ago: he will be moderating his comments. But what some people found far […]
String theory cont’d
What is largely beyond question, and is of primary importance to the journey described in my book The Elegant Universe, is that even if one […]
A Theory of Everything?
The fundamental particles of the universe that physicists have identified—electrons, neutrinos, quarks, and so on—are the “letters” of all matter. Just like their linguistic counterparts, […]
The Search Lurch: Have We Become Lazy Googlers or Smarter Web Researchers?
Question: As the power and influence of search engines such as Google increase, will Web users bother going to homepages and trying to figure out […]
Gigaset SL75 WLAN: VOIP portable home telephone
September 7, 2005 The new Siemens Gigaset SL75 WLAN Voice-over-IP (VoIP) cordless telephone affords a new dimension in mobility that dispenses forever with the traditional […]