I Sure Am Thirsty

Man - I want to see this film!?

Thanksgiving 2009! xoxo!

Simply, humans usually think along pre-existing, learned, pathways. It’s how we function. Creative endeavors, like design, benefit greatly from breaking those patterns and generating multiple alternative solutions. Thinking guru Edward DeBono calls it “lateral thinking.” Thinking Wrong is a technique that gives you permission to question everything before focusing on the appropriate solution.

I refer to Twitter as an information network rather then a social network. And here I believe in the trend of openness. Using an open technology, creating an open platform, and being more transparent that is where we are heading.

That’s right: Instead of rigging the system to achieve higher rankings in search returns, Murdoch is contemplating pulling his content from Google searches altogether—a simple tweak that Google says is available to every Web site.

Of course, Google seems flummoxed that anyone would choose to do so. In a statement released in response to Murdoch’s challenge, Google stated what the company thought was obvious: “Publishers put their content on the Web because they want it to be found.”