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"The 99 most popular emerging songs in the world"
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"…many companies resist the idea of bringing in customers as innovation partners. Eric von Hippel, head of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management, hypothesizes that internal innovators frequently view customer innovators as rivals who might undermine their creative role."
Author Archives: mdoeff
links for 2010-01-18
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"If the very best people leave, then the people you’ve got left actually require more micromanagement. Eventually, they get chased away, and then you’ve got to invest in a whole apparatus of micromanagement. Pretty soon, you’re running a police state. So micromanagement doesn’t scale because it spirals down, and you end up with below-average employees in terms of motivation and ability."
Glen Phillips and Grant Lee Phillips, live at Freight & Salvage
photo by Flickered! (complete set)
I saw two of my favorite artists – Glen Phillips and Grant Lee Phillips – last night at Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse in Berkeley last night. Both performances were great. They played a couple of songs together:
Solar Flare
Fountain of Youth
links for 2010-01-12
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Companies like Dropbox can't be happy about this
links for 2010-01-09
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Interesting visualization of Netflix rental patterns by neighborhood