Friday Name Day – Part Three Once again into the naming breech we go It’s weird. These naming links have been popping up on my radar lately — just in time for posting on Fridays. Strange. I’m thinking I’ll do it one more time (next Friday) and then leave off once we enter October. Watch… […]
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Creativity Co-Op IdeaCradle enables open-source funding of ideas Interesting discovery today via Peter Lloyd’s Heads-Up newsletter. IdeaCradle.com was conceived by Brad Sears, a web developer living in Toronto Canada, in order to fund additional projects by his favorite band, Swervedriver. It evolved into an effective, community-based way to raise funds for any kind of project. […]
Screwing Up a Brainstorm How to turn your tropical storm into a light drizzle There’s a great article on lousing up your idea-generating efforts posted on my buddy Chuck Frey’s Innovation Tools website. It’s called “Six Great Ways To Ruin A Brainstorming Session” by Paul Sloane. InnovationTools has quickly become one of the best websites […]
Buy Your Dream Job for 7¢ Per Day Norm Needs New Life on ‘Net One of my favorite comic strips over the past couple years has been “The Norm.” I’m not certain of the particulars, but for some reason The Norm creator (Michael Jantze) has decided to end his relationship with King Features Syndicate. Rather […]
Ideas Inside Apparel and Paraphernalia I’ve been hanging on to this design for a couple years now. I use it as my computer wallpaper and on my personal notecards. I always figured if I tried to sell it on t-shirts or something, the logo-police might track me down. I’ve decided this qualifies as a PARODY, […]
Brand Personalities — Election Edition Dubbya is to Dunkin Donuts, as Kerry is to Starbucks Interesting (and kinda funny) study from branding firm Landor Associates, share results of presidential product match-ups. I first learned of it through Brandon Uttley’s Brand On! blog, but I’d be really interested in seeing the same data collected for the […]
A Friday by Any Other Name Last Friday it was People names — this week it’s all Business. Many times clients will ask my opinion of company names they’ve created, and although there are plenty of books on the subject and a variety of opinions available, I’ve always wished there was a collection of basic […]