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Have been reflecting a lot lately about the value of design/designers in my life. As much as I want to write about this idea, I suspect that the image above says it all. @joshdavey drew it with his finger using Penultimate for the iPad while our University crew headed up to @andrewlarosa's cottage for our weekend escape. 

What strikes me from this great sketch: as well as Josh captured his perspective -- and mine -- his unassuming work here says so much about his character.

Those who add value to the world around them never stop designing. 

 

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Above is my goofy submission for Tungle.me's sweet T-Shirt Design Challenge. I leveraged Kraftmedia's Product Templates for basic T-shirt vector files. The colour of the Fruit of the Loom T is Pink. I didn't get the typography right but you can find it (BP Diet) here.

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Linked via @mmonaa. Enjoy.

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"The B83 nuclear weapon is a variable-yield gravity bomb developed by the United States in the late 1970s, entering service in 1983…The bomb is 12 feet (3.67 m) long, with a diameter of 18 inches (457 mm); the actual nuclear explosive package… occupies some 3 or 4 feet (90 to 120 cm) in the forward part of the bomb case.”

Who knew a nuke could fit within a 3 or 4 feet container, just 18 inches in diameter?

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Testing writerous to see if I can publish to my posterous using WLW.

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Malcolm Bastien and I presenting Connect IT using the BMGen canvas as it relates to recently completed case study. The case presented an established grocer in Boston looking to respond to emerging eCommerce competitors facing their business. After completing in-class discussion we pitched Connect IT with a heavy focus on applying BMGen (as a core theme within Design+Align) to a student's future life as a professional and strategic business leader.

Register your spot for Connect IT Conference 2010: Design+Align today at www.connectitconference.com and we'll see you at Arcadian Court (Queen and Bay St, Toronto) on March 11!

Special thank you to @andrewlarosa for recording.

Boom!

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A brief site tour on a very quiet Saturday afternoon in the Zone. Apologies for the repetitive use of um & pseudo and please excuse the choppy walk-through. Still only getting the hang of using the Flipcam :)

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Happily taking requests for table purchases. This will be a great opportunity for you to entertain your team and customers at a significant discount. Special thanks to Michelle for getting this deck to sing.

PSà Don Tapscott is keynoting J

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My eldest cousin Antonella's beautiful daughter--Serafina. I love this kid.

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Ryerson's PR line continues to laud the importance of Private-Public-Partnerships in the institutions efforts to City Build. I get that the real-estate barriers are immense and that we need to get creative when expanding Ryerson's presence and infrastructure--but what are the alternatives?

Are there better ways at becoming a true City Builder?

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Haha.

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At about 06:00 it gets really really good. Big thank you to @unbrelievable for the post and the link to May 1st show at Lee's Palace.

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A personal mentor showed me this YouTube video today. Our discussion included the big question: "What do you want out of life?"

Hope this video inspires you.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/516217/jaime-solo.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aGbzg3SBgat Jaime Sorgente jsorgent Jaime Sorgente Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:10:00 -0800 Exploring and Using "Patentable" Technology http://posterous.jaimesorgente.com/exploring-and-using-patentable-technology http://posterous.jaimesorgente.com/exploring-and-using-patentable-technology

Am currently researching for my liberal course Politics: Power and Change in Technological Society where we have been assigned a research paper/case study of a specific technology. I am writing on the Patents and Power of software.

In my research I found an essay written by Paul Graham three years ago, entitled Are Software Patents Evil?. In this piece Graham proves how little power patents play in the software business. Graham argues, that aside from "patent trolls" suing for patent infringement, software innovation is often left unfettered by patents. Although outlying cases do exist--suing for patent infringement requires a lot of resources--and often the costs (shifting public opinions; opportunity cost of wasting time and not solving the problem internally; etc.) of going to court and battling it out remain too high a barrier.

More to the point, he remarks:

Most innovation in the software business happens in startups, and startups should simply ignore other companies' patents. At least, that's what we advise, and we bet money on that advice.

Graham concludes that building applications that solve problems remain a lucrative business. Startups won't avoid working on projects because of patent challenges.

So heres my point: the last thing I did before I fell asleep last night was read Graham's essay. I woke up this morning somewhat inspired and somehow landed back at PaulGraham.com. On the bio page his authored works are listed and linked to Amazon. 

Two clicks later and I am one-click away from buying Hackers & Painters on my Kindle for PC (awesome application but I really want the device for Christmas):

 

In his essay, Graham calls out the "obvious"one-click patent (remains yet to be determined) as evidence to Amazon's clout. Amazon has the power "to force customers to log in before [buying] something". This morning my browser automatically logged me into Amazon. The purchase barrier was removed and I suspect, without Amazon's cookie, I may have been less willing to purchase the book.

Was it clout that led me to pull the trigger and buy or a highly effective marketing engine? I am leaning more to the latter point. 

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By continuing to externally validate our existences--we can't change the world?

I better put my head down and get back to work.

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Powerhouse.

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