http://geekfish.motd.org fishing for innovation, cross-pollination, and the new Tue, 04 Mar 2008 02:33:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For those of you that have subscriber to this feed, or visit the blog on a semi-regular basis,  I am moving the content here to http://innovationguy.com http://geekfish.motd.org/2008/03/03/moving-to-innovationguycom/ I finally had a few minuted to breath and think today and what a timely arrival was the latest email from TEDTalks in my inbox. I have heard a great number of mentions on "cradle to cradle" design over the past couple of years. Most of ... http://geekfish.motd.org/2007/10/08/tedtalk-william-mcdonough-cradle-to-cradle/ I have visited slideshare quite a few times in the past, but really didn't capture it's full potential until today. I was originally linked into this presentation on "Death by Powepoint" by Alexi Kapterev. I then looked at the associated links ala youtube style. It was interesting ... http://geekfish.motd.org/2007/08/13/slideshare/ As a pretty prolific reader, I always wonder what other people read?  I usually ask my friends what they read and this guides me to expand my horizons.   Another question that always comes to me when trying to find my next read is "What do really sucessful people read?"   What ... http://geekfish.motd.org/2007/08/05/do-you-ever-wonder-what-sucessful-people-read/ I was looking through some older emails today and I came to the conclusion that I have a bad habit of emailing myself links to interesting articles or newsitems I find, but not getting them out on here. So here's and effor to catch up. This was one of the ... http://geekfish.motd.org/2007/07/30/various-materials-links/ Here a link to an article on Roland Piquepaille's blog conerning some prototype electrochromic sunglasses put together by the University of Washington. What I really liked about this example is not that electrochromic materials are totally unknown as there has been significant work on them for decades. It ... http://geekfish.motd.org/2007/07/29/the-enabling-application-for-electrochromic-materials/ I was doing some searching on LinkedIN the other day and ran across this list of tips on LinkedIN.  I am not sure I agree with some of it, but wanted to point to the various links and let you decide for yourself.  (Note: Originally from a LinkedIN Questions post.) - ... http://geekfish.motd.org/2007/07/29/linkedin-links/ I was reading over at endless innovation this post which points to a presentation by Amy Smith at TED. I found the presentation to be quite refreshing and eye-opening. She specializes in designing solutions for the other 90% of the world. Engineering solutions to common, but life-threatening problems in ... http://geekfish.motd.org/2007/07/25/amy-smith-on-tedtalks-design-that-saves-lives/ Guy Kawasaki has a great interview with Jeffrey Pfeffer (Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University) related to his book What Were They Thinking?: Unconventional Wisdom About Management. What really struck me as interesting was how true some ... http://geekfish.motd.org/2007/07/18/interview-jeffrey-pfeffer-on-his-book-what-were-they-thinking/ I was reading Endless Innovation (I find myself a regular reader lately) and read this post on Nokia's Brand and Design Priorities. If you don't see the embedded slideshow the direct link is Here on Slideshare.net.I thought some of the excerpts were quite succinct and powerful. http://geekfish.motd.org/2007/07/18/nokias-vision/