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We have better printers than twitter. TechCocktail recap.
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
I don’t have much to add to Harper’s post on our TechCocktail presentation.
But I can add the rough math we did to compare costs for label printing:
Big Vendor solution:
Ginormous Canon Printer 110ppm - $150,000
(Redundancy? $300,000.)
Service - $1000/month
Print cost per page - $0.005
Part Availability - 10-12 days
skinnyCorp solution:
3 x HP 9040n’s 120ppm - $9,000 (and already […]
How CIOs Can REALLY Introduce Web 2.0 Technologies into the Enterprise
Monday, July 9th, 2007
My alternate title to this is How Diann Daniel Completely Misses the Point.
So this morning, I am reading this article on CIO.com. It is close to being the biggest piece of trash I have ever read. I will save you some time, here are the main points:
1. Sell the benefits of […]
Bruce Mau, my Deus Ex Machina.
Thursday, July 5th, 2007
About 2 months ago, I started pondering the application questions for Bruce Mau. I have come up with a couple of drafts for the questions, and posted them as I had time. I’d love the opportunity to talk with Bruce Mau Design about working with his team, it seems like a fantastic opportunity […]
In the future, how will we communicate? Part 5
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
Whatever the method, tool, or medium… it will be shockingly simply with remarkably complex results
We have a tendency to focus on the communications of speech, but speech is often a poor representation of thought. Communication through action and idea are also evolving. We will continue to see a consolidation of infrastructure to one […]
In the future, how will we communicate? Part 4
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
Decoupling of services from technology will continue to evolve into communication
As the results of our communications are becoming more complex, there is a necessity to simplify the building blocks of the system into modular pieces to be reassembled in flexible and complex manners. Service Oriented Architecture is an extensible design methodology that reduces our […]
In the future, how will we communicate? Part 3
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
More meta data means more targeted communications
Our words are like actions, they define us. As I contribute to our new information economy, I am leaving a traceable history of words, thoughts, and actions that are being mined to determine the type of person that I am. When I use a search engine, not […]
In the future, how will we communicate? Part 2
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
Communications trends have 2 primary fluid variables: collaboration and scale.
The most interesting activity inside of the realm of communication is the actual vector of change and the variables that decide that vector. Human beings are prone to nurture communications technology that offers them the greatest advantage, and we decide that advantage using two […]
In the future, how will we communicate? Part 1
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
I’ve broken down my thoughts on this question into five distinct parts, this is the first of those five.
The foundation of communication is hierarchical and will continue to be so in the short term.
The human process of communication is easy to generalize: we either speak to one or to many and listen to one or […]
Scott vs. Bruce Mau, Round 1
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
Last week, when I found out that Bruce Mau was coming to Chicago, I decided that I wanted to work with him, and that brought me to this: http://www.brucemaudesign.com/jobs.html
The application process involves answering 3 questions:
1) In the future, how will we communicate?
2) Will we shift from the service of war to the service […]