Earthquakes
In 1923, Frank Lloyd Wright completed the Imperial Hotel, a building commissioned in Japan. In 1923, there was a 8.3 magnitude earthquake. The hotel survived. Wright was a midwesterner like myself, and had no experience with Earthquakes. When he arrived…
Terms of Art for the Heart
A term of art is a word when used in a professional context has a very precise meaning. I’ve been reading a lot about game mechanics and theory, inspired by Amy Jo Kim’s terrific talk given recently at Linkedin. Right…
Twitpoll: do you Yammer?
Twitpoll: do you Yammer?, originally uploaded by Box and Arrow. small sample size…. but resonates.
Context is King!
Nasty as they wanna be? Policing Flickr.com Except rules are tricky things with an operation like Flickr’s. The ban on commerce seems simple enough, but as someone at the meeting points out, Brazil’s secondhand economy is an integral part of…
Why community is hard
Community is hard, and so is pretty much all social stuff. But why is so darn hard? Why do strange, unexpected things keep happening, like the wikitorial and the Digg revolt and so on? I hope you are familiar with…
Size Matters
early draft of a section from 2nd edition of blueprints We all would like to think there was an abstract, perfect design that we could find and then never change. But different sizes demand different design approaches, and as our…
Talking About Stuff