Is there no good buzz surrounding Segways?

Looks like I’m not the only one who’s skeptical of Segway’s feasibility in real life. Slashdot links to Wired’s article describing Segway’s problems.

Another science I suspected must exist, but never recognized – Social Network Analysis Peter Morville – who sometimes says really smart things, and other times just pisses me off, has done a bit of research here. It’s an interesting piece.

Thomas Erickson’s paper, entitled “Socially Translucent Systems: Social Proxies, Persistent Conversation, and the Design of ‘Babble'” is interesting. I’d like to somehow tie these concepts to our collaboration, workflow tools.

Am I not supposed to feel great? All goofy and optimistic? Spring is here, love is in the air, tulips are blooming and all that. These things are supposed to make a fella feel pretty good, even if he refuses to admit it. I’ll just be here then. Waiting my turn. Thinking about what’s next. D’ya ever feel like doing something that would make everyone you’ve ever met say “What the fuck!

Chrissy has her own walk of fame star Wow. I don’t mean to be cruel, but it sort of takes the value of all other stars down a notch doesn’t it?

Boy, I hope this works… Tall You: “This is from USA and it contains latest ingredient, look taller and improve your personality in 3 to 6 months time and will be permanant” Or if that doesn’t work, there’s always, Long you

I don’t consider myself especially creative, but I enjoy those who are. One of the things we struggle with around the office is how to be creative – as a team. I tend to believe that creativity is not a team event. A group of people can work together to help bring creative things to life, but I believe that creative genius is typically the work of single – sometimes two – individuals.

The Onion: Community Rallies Behind Struggling Corporation " Though the two-day bake sale raised only $258, well short of the needed $630 million, the event helped spread word of MidCorp’s troubles. Throughout the next few days, Summitville residents came up with ways big and small to help the beleaguered corporation. While many residents dug deep into their savings to give whatever they could, others came up with goods and services to help see CEC MidCorp through the rough times.

It’s good to see some of the other folks at Fusionary are keeping active, diverse and interesting blogs. Here are links to Steve, Bryan, T.M., and Kevin.

We’ve been having conversations around the office recently regarding making the client happy. It sounds like such a good idea, but unless clients agree, at least on some level other than lip-service, with the objectives and philosophy of what we’re trying to do for them, it often fails. The other symptom I’m seeing is that it’s becoming more important to impress the client than to create a great product. I believe we’re still creating a great product, but there is a very real danger of losing that capability.

The self-proclaimed [dullest blog in the world]1 may be just that. For example, a post from March 11… “I was at a meeting and became aware that I had nothing of any interest to add to the discussion. So I said nothing, and the discussion continued.”