Business vs. Creation?
Benjamin responds to my obnoxius comments. Multi-disciplinary skills is what’s all about – and both business and design definately needs to get a greater understanding of each other. I guess my point was that the responsibility should be on both sides.
And honestly – what characterizes real business people imho – is their creative skills to imagine, to see the possibilities, to create the disruptive products, to attract the right specialized talent, to understand a variety of different skill areas and the leadership skills to make it all happen.

Blogtalk: A European Weblog Conference: Web-based publishing, communication and collaboration tools for professional and private use.. Vienna, Austria, May 23-24. Looks like a good format and interesting people – will try to make it!

Rant
Benjamin is ranting on about the need to combine business thinking and interaction design/usability. I totally agree with him offcourse, but also feel the urge to say. And so what’s new?
Product design has for ages been like that, store design likewise, etc.
The only thing that’s new is that it’s digital. Period.
And the bloody interaction/experience/information/etc. design title is nothing new -once again old stuff in a digital context.
So using business goals when designing how to buy domain names or how to order organic groceries is just digital work building on the …

For the rest of you…
The 2002 CommonMe Holiday/New Years Greeting: Mygdalism. Also known as the ego christmas card.

Working on my holiday greeting. Think googlism meets commonme.org!

Living is…
Researching internet/email appliances. Wanna find an appliance that can hook my grandma up to primarily email and a bit of web surfing so she easily can communicate with the rest of the family.
It’s gotta be a very simplified user interface since she never have used nor wants to use a computer, it’s gotta be small and elegant, and it’s gotta be pretty inexpensive.
And what’s amazing is that there really isn’t anything on the market all though that the niche market for such an appliance is pretty big.
My best bet …

San Jose Mercury News: HP hiring tech veteran Kay in research division
The digital legend with major stints at Atari, Xerox, Apple and Disney is heading to the original silicon valley garage, Hewlett Packard.

Six Log. A new blog from Six Apart, aka. Mena and Ben – the creators of Movabletype.

If it all ready hasn’t got your attention there’s a small conference going on, Supernova 2002.

Mobile blogs again and again!…
What’s the role of mobile blogs compared to one’s main blog. Will a format for mobile blogs emerge or are standard blogs the format and mobile blogs just the ultimate creation enviroment. That’s what we’re discussing on a thread on Joi Ito’s site.