Author Archive for James



Quotable

The age old correspondence of how do people, in this case children, have time to do that? Generally in response to things rich, amazing web apps like Graffiti on Facebook, Wikipedia, etc. Riffing off Clay Shirky’s piece.
Children and Computers from The Media Lab(Stewart Brand, 1988)
“Kids like computers… I think it corresponds to children wanting […]

Wordpress.Com

Got into a good conversation today around thinking about the power of wordpress.com and the potential for tying together as a loosely inter-connected CMS that could be comparable to Yahoo! in the new era of the net.
I’m always fascinated by a property like Yahoo and their millions of uniques. This sheer scale coupled with […]

Recent Work

Chris Brogan was nice enough to talk with me in a post entitled, American Express is OPEN around one of the projects that we are currently working on, The OPEN Forum Blog. It is always fun to see a project get interest and recognition among your peers. {Definitely beats traditional banner ads and behavioral targeting.} […]

Media

Looking for your feedback; what do you think of this 300X250 video execution?
It contains:
- a video player that redraws all six of the winning graffitis from the ReGeneration Contest. Currently runs on auto-play but could also be a click to play.
- At the top it pulls in the RSS feed from the latest post […]

Quotes

Try to put it out, but it is a growing flame.
“In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.” - […]