silentblue | QuantifiedIntelligent enterprise and knowledge management. Critical thinking and innovative technology. Fat-free and dolphin safeYou know you're getting old- June 30, 2007 The loonie turns 20 tomorrow. That baby on that Nirvana album is now this pimply dude who's old enough to drive. I'm shopping at The Bay and they're playing Salt 'n Pepa through the PA system.http://www.silentblue.net/mtarchives/2007/0629-you-know-youre-getting-old.php Disruptive innovation: 10 years later- June 21, 2007 It's been ten years since Clayton Christensen published his seminal business book "The Innovator's Dilemma". I had the good fortune to read it three years ago. Newsweek sat down with Christensen this week to answer some lingering questions, discuss how the word "disruptive" has been used and abused over the years, and probe his predictions on whether Apple iPhone would disrupt the wireless market. Apple is leaping ahead on the sustaining curve by building a better phone. But the prediction..http://www.silentblue.net/mtarchives/2007/0621-disruptive-innovation-10-years-late.php Download Dezza's Mac screensaver- June 10, 2007 A couple years ago while living in China and Hong Kong, my friend Dezza got bitten by the photo bug and began documenting his travels. He's gotten pretty good at it - his photos have been featured in JPG Magazine, among other publications - and now a collage of his photos is now available as an official Mac OSX screensaver on Apple.com. Called People of the Middle Kingdom 1.0, it features, and I quote: "beautiful, positive, and thought provoking photography shot in China." Nice...http://www.silentblue.net/mtarchives/2007/0610-download-dezzas-mac-screensaver-2.php I spy with my little eye on Google Maps- June 2, 2007 I know, you were just minding your own business. You were probably pensive and didn't notice that tinted van driving past you that day. Even if you did, you definitely wouldn't have guessed all those funny black boxes on its roof where rapid-fire panoramic cameras. And I bet you didn't realize that, several months later, the population of the Internet - that's some 6.5 billion people - can now look at you, and we're blogging and caching and archiving and indexing you for all of..http://www.silentblue.net/mtarchives/2007/0602-i-spy-with-my-little-eye-on-google.php |