Category Archives: Musings
Some of the ideas you won’t hear from me this week…
I’m very frustrated right now, having just received an email telling me that my presentation at a conference on customer self-service has to be cancelled due to a contractual conflict with the conference sponsor. I had been asked at short [...]
Picnic Festival, Amsterdam 2011
In September I was lucky enough to go to Amsterdam to attend Picnic, a three day festival of design, science, technology, media and business. Here’s a short review. [...]
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Showing the story behind the data
Qualitative insights make quantitative data penetrable. A brief post on the importance of revealing the story behind the data. [...]
Scott McCloud at the Sydney Opera House
A group of the Meldsters are pleased to have tickets for Scott McCloud at the Sydney Opera House on Sunday 21st August. [...]
Making Ideas Happen
How do you turn inspiration into action? How do you learn from failure? How do you help organisations to innovate? These were some of the questions posed at IF Talks – Making Ideas Happen – a ‘deliberately small’ gathering of [...]
It’s not always easy changing a lightbulb
Last weekend I went in to a Woolworths store to pick up a new lightbulb. While I was marvelling at the shelves of bulbs for indoor and outdoor use, nightlights, insect repellent globes, and ultraviolet party lights, a lady came [...]
New Meld Studios website
It gives us great pleasure to be able to launch the new Meld Studios website [I feel a bit like the Queen launching a new ship - minus the champagne on a rope]. [...]
eBook lending
I’ve always viewed the inability to lend an eBook to a friend or family-member as a severe degradation of the book-reading experience. A loss that has arisen from the differences in copyright and digital rights management as they’re applied to [...]
Australian Online Retail Forum
Just attended the Australian Federal Government’s Online Retail Forum. I was startled to hear that 58% of Australian businesses don’t have websites. Fear of the inability to compete with overseas prices and cannibalism seem to be the mindset of many [...]
Niina, Jono and Kimberley, welcome to Meld Studios!
…and now we are six.Meld Studios is excited to introduce three very talented individuals that will strengthen and broaden our studio’s capabilities. Please join me in welcoming Niina Talikka, Jono Yang and Kimberley Crofts. Take a look at their bios. [...]
