Doctor's Note

A mix of essays and commentary about design, innovation, technology, society, coaching, personal and leadership development. Since 1996.

Screaming Fans - New iMacs and Apple's tech support

My friend Toby (check out his audio work, it’s great) recently bought a new iMac for his audio work (he and his wife are expecting a baby so he …

Apple's Tipping Point

Paul Nixon has created a great bit of information design describing Apple’s product development/market strategy. The Mac mini and iPod Shuffle in the …

Bastardstone's - Waterstone's employee sacked for blogging

So, Waterstone’s bookshop have just fired Joe Gordon, an employee of eleven years, due to his blog. Pretty stupid move and another example of a …

Where and how to donate to Tsunami victims

Anders Jacobsen has laid down the challenge that he’ll give $1 per trackback to his post of all the aid agencies. Seems like a good idea to me. So here …

The raging BitTorrent

There’s a good story on BitTorrents over at Wired at the moment by from Clive Thomson based on an interview with Bram Cohen, BitTorrent’s creator. …

Tsunamis shatter celeb holidays

Following up from the previous post about Channel Ten’s reporting, CNN get a bit of Tsunami entertainment news out with their Tsunamis shatter celebrity …

Tsunami in Indian Ocean puts life in perspective

There’s nothing like a natural disaster to put things in perspective. When I heard about the earthquake and tsunamis I reacted in the way most people …