(Cross post from my Google+) I have always been a die-hard paper book lover. Nothing to me smells better than a old used book store. But I have recently finally given in to the eReader boom. I have had a Viewsonic gTablet I hacked with Android Honeycomb for about 6 months. On it I have read more
Invention and Innovation: Lessons from History (Video)
08/16/2011 – 7:16 am
A very interesting talk about ideas from William Baumol and Sir Harold Evans. Being that idea maturation is one of my prime research interests this discussion is especially of importance to me. The video is almost 2 hours long but well worth a watch even in increments.
Patent Trolls and Their Effect on Technological Acceleration
08/04/2011 – 7:07 am
I spend a good deal of time monitoring trends in patents and patent applications. Along with reading most any news articles related to patents. They can be a good gauge to determine future technological convergences and rates at which GNR is accelerating. More recently in the news there is much discussion of “defensive patents” and read more
Hacking the Viewsonic Gtablet
05/26/2011 – 12:06 pm
I got a Viewsonic Gtablet as a birthday present a few weeks ago with the intention of hacking it with custom ROMs and getting Android Honeycomb on it. It is a good tablet being that the hardware specs are very similar to the Motorola Xoom at half the cost (seen as low as $275 new). read more
Killing Innovation Revisited
05/23/2011 – 11:14 am
A few posts ago I wrote about How Management Kills Innovation and wanted to touch upon this concept a little more. I have been compiling some notes on ways to foster innovation and help turn around the lack of innovation in companies I have seen first-hand. This is a working copy basically that I will read more
New 100TB Per Second Record, Now Where is Mine?
05/01/2011 – 12:32 pm
I was reading about how a new record of 100TB per second was achieved recently. Which begs the question: Why do I not even get 10Mbps download speeds??? It seems that US data connection providers are charging a lot for the same speed I got l got last year and the year before.
How Management Kills Innovation
04/20/2011 – 12:30 pm
I have worked for over 15 years in the technology sector and consider myself a student of idea maturation and innovation. Mainly in terms of fostering teams to create innovative approaches to problem solving. While creating a company culture that is conducive to improving upon and generating new ideas. Some of my more recent experiences in the last few years have encouraged me to sit down read more
Where Good Ideas Come From
04/19/2011 – 11:47 am
Looking forward to reading Steven Johnson’s book. Also checkout his TED talk:
SlimOS How To – A Minimal Debian Desktop with Minimal Fuss (Part 1)
04/11/2011 – 4:08 pm
I have been using an Ubuntu desktop for the last few years doing the version upgrades and having no issues to speak of with it. But I also started to notice that the system was being a bit slow with larger applications like Firefox and others. Recently I have been moving back to my roots read more
Terminal Dreams
04/06/2011 – 12:43 pm
I have been posting *nix apps and news to a new Tumblr called Terminal Dreams for those interested in that sort of thing.