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Farhood Wants Insurance
July 23, 2008
I met a poster child for the next gen a few weeks ago, Farhood Basiri.  He'll be a guest on my new podcast series (it's not available yet; we're...

Cities on a Human Scale
July 9, 2008
Many cities, like American waistlines, are expanding. Outward. Call it 'sprawl,' 'creep' or 'suburbanization.' Whatever you call it, this spillage...

Is Barack a Next Gen Candidate?
June 4, 2008
This morning I received this email from the ever-cool Linda Schreiber (Iowa City, Iowa.)  You'll remember that Iowa was the first state in the...

Making Mickey Mouse Modern
May 14, 2008
"I love classic Mickey, but to kids today, classic Mickey is meaningless. They want modern Mickey, but what is that?" - Bob Iger, CEO of...

Nobody Works the Way We Do
May 14, 2008
...says Eric Schmidt, Google's adult-in-residence. He goes on to say, "The Google culture makes sense if you're in it, and no sense if you're...