Tuesday is garbage day at the Pink House. The trucks usually rumble through the alley before 8:30am. But this Tuesday, the trucks somehow skipped our house. Since all of us generate a lot of garbage (and not just the rhetorical kind), we faced a long and smelly week. So yesterday, on a whim, the missus […]
Things have been zooey here at Pink, Inc, world headquarters, so the blog has been rather silent. Sorry. We’ve been working to redesign this site and to build out another site devoted to Johnny Bunko (which you can see in its embryonic form here.) I’ll try to get back in action soon. My calendar isn’t
That’s not a question I ever asked myself — until earlier this week when I heard an excellent presentation from John Seifert of Ogilvy. Seifert made the case that without a major overhaul in what they stand for in and how the connect with consumers, many brands are in deep trouble. He described the work
Yesterday I had the privilege of serving in the peanut gallery for a Seth Godin teleseminar on his latest book, Meatball Sundae. (BTW, please read this one. The advice on the top of page 185 is itself worth the price of the entire book.) During the call, Seth generously mentioned The Adventures of Johnny Bunko
Democracy is inspiring, the way we design it not so much. I discovered that again this afternoon when I voted in the D.C. Democratic presidential primary. For example, here’s the entrance of my polling place. Duct tape keeping up the main sign. The official placard resting on the ground. Nice. The whole aesthetic has a
Seth Godin is one of the smartest, most creative, and most inspiring minds in business today. He cranks out a new book every year. And on his blog, in his speaking engagements, and through his entrepreneurial ventures, he’s an endless fountain of ideas and innovations. If you’d like to spend an hour on the phone
“China’s disposable-chopstick factories turn out roughly 63 billion pairs each year.” (Source: WSJ, 2/8/08) *** Tantalizing hint: Disposable chopsticks are an important plot element in my new book. Permalink
From a review in Friday’s NY Times: “In December 1983 the Argentine Conceptual artist Marta Minujin and a group of helpers spent 17 days building a full-scale model of the Parthenon in a public park in Buenos Aires. Except for a metal scaffolding, it was made almost entirely of books wrapped in plastic. All the
In a Newsweek interview, University College London psychologist Adrian Furnham reveals the differences in intelligence between men and women. The key finding: Although men are overrepresented on both the very high and very low ends of the spectrum, in general there are no differences in intelligence between the sexes. The really key finding: Men think
Cory Doctorow — he of BoingBoing, Craphound, and several excellent scifi novels — has a terrific column in Forbes about the extraordinary remix culture of manga fans in Romania. His piece does a nice job of describing how fan fiction can keep a medium vital. And he delivers several delicious quotes about the role of
