Archive for the 'Product Development' Category
How compassion saved and broke the internet
March 19th, 2008Jon Postel, the late computer science guru pictured above, is widely credited with the following dictum:
Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.
This has come to be known as Postel’s Law, and it’s not explicitly about how people should treat one another.
Instead, Dr. Postel was talking about the problem […]
Dissertations, $12.75.
September 29th, 2007While working on my dissertation, AdSense thought my needs might be met by a certain company that specializes in writing term papers for lazy students. “No plagiarism” and “EXPERT writers” the ad promised.
How could I not investigate further? Here’s a screenshot.
Cheese-colored Cheese? Insufferable!
June 12th, 2007Interesting article today in the New York Times about companies lobbying to sneak nonorganic ingredients into foods labeled organic. A good reminder that a company’s perception of the marketplace is just as important as the consumer’s perception of the product.
John Foraker, chief executive of Annie’s Homegrown, argued that nonorganic annatto was a crucial […]