Sue Cline

Mondays, I tell you – tons of great things to read, and no time to read and write about them:

• Is Mobile Affecting When We Read?: This means you also need to be thinking about the hours of support you provide – if your customers are coming after 8pm are they going to be willing to wait until the next “business” day for a response, or will they shop someplace that will? This is the #1 area I see companies cutting corners – failing to staff the hours their site traffic is heaviest.
• Idea to Market in 5 Months: Making the Glif: This is an awesome dissection of the tools and processes Dan Provost and Tom Gerhardt used to bring The Glif to market. I’d like to see more of these cases broken down so succinctly so others can follow in their footsteps. An article I want you to read so badly that I’m posting it a second time so it doesn’t get lost in other weekend links.
• Venture Capital and the Decline of the Start-up Middle Class: There are some opportunities in the middle of the VC field. The question is who will pounce on it first.
• The Commons: the commons are our cumulative national treasure. Who should decide how it’s used?

Happy Monday!

It was one of those weeks and although I really wanted to blog about some of these items in more depth, they have to go on my longer to do list. You shouldn’t miss reading about them, though!

• What’s Your Personal Data Worth?: Somewhere north of $3.00. Given that I routinely pay my data company $3 for this information, I suspect we value it too little.
• Idea to Market in 5 Months: Making the Glif: This is an awesome dissection of the tools and processes Dan Provost and Tom Gerhardt used to bring The Glif to market. I’d like to see more of these cases broken down so succinctly so others can follow in their footsteps. If you read only one thing off this list, this should be it!
• The Phantom 15 Million: Between 2001 and 2008 the U.S. economy should have generated 15 million new jobs. We didn’t, and even the experts aren’t entirely sure why not (perhaps they’re asking the wrong experts).
• Richmond Type Map: When people tell me print is dying, I’m going to point to projects like this. Artists, are you asking your printers to back these projects or doing them independently?

Happy weekend!

My browser is bulging with things to read, here are some I highly recommend diving into for the long holiday weekend:

• What Do QR Codes Have in Common With Tear-Out Forms?: Ah, the response – I just answered a similar question for a client last week, so I thought I’d share this with everyone.
• The Golden Era Of Information Discovery: The conversation is happening in new places. Can old media catch up and find them, or will online media outlets continue to eat their lunch?
• See something? Cite something: I do my best to attribute everything I link here, but this is a funny reminder to do so.
• IBM’s Watson computer plays Jeopardy: The Watson computer has 2,800 Power7 cores to be able to work through the word play of typical Jeopardy questions in a reasonably quick fashion. Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter are the leading all time Jeopardy winners. In their first match, who wins?
• The Royal Society’s lost women scientists: Don’t be shocked, but an examination of their archives led the Royal Society to realize that women played a much more critical role in the development and dissemination of knowledge than previously recognized. They’re starting to do something about that.

Happy weekend!

image used with permission of Alan Cleaver via Flickr

It’s January so I’m knee deep in closing the books for 2010 and designing a really intriguing B2B acquisition campaign. If I wasn’t, I’d be reading the following:

• Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary: I know it’s tempting to think of the economy as recovering, but this summary report is awful. We’re not creating anywhere near enough jobs for the number of people who would like to work, and the sooner everyone agrees and starts to work on solutions, the better. People can not spend money they don’t have, and at this rate, won’t have for 12+ years.
• Is winner-take-all bad or good for the middle class? Evidence from baseball: Lane Kenworthy breaks down job creation, middle class employment and the rising tides theory using baseball statistics. You might be surprised where this ends up.
• Google Places and Hotpot Come to iPhone, Google Maps: Sean Kernick has a lovely photo set featuring Jason de Caires Taylor’s underwater landscapes.

Happy Wednesday!

Some more lovely things to read and enjoy:

• Matthew Inman, the Interview: Andrew Warner scores an all access interview with Matt Inman, creator of The Oatmeal, a web comix earning better than $1,000 per day. Hear the inside details on his $70,000 black Friday rush.
• How Online Pizza Delivery Makes America The Best Country In The World: I am not a fan of Domino’s but this type of manufacturing transparency is intriguing – I’ll be keeping an eye open to see if it spreads beyond fast food.
• Dan Goods, information strategist, NASA: What is the best way to present research from NASA astrophysicists to everyone else? Enter Dan Goods, who uses everything from fog machines to aquariums to wine bottles to convey information.

Happy Tuesday!