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The Power of Inaction

By cathyma On September 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Sorry I haven’t been blogging for a while. Having joined a very exciting company with the aim to launch things users love (let’s hope!) means that there is a sudden surge of data. Some can be noise, some can be signals. It’s quite a journey to distill them… Forgot who said it but data is [...]

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How copying democratises the fashion industries

By cathyma On May 26, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Absolutely genius.  A great real life reverse example of how copyrights restrict creativity and innovation.

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Quotes of the day

By cathyma On May 25, 2010 · 1 Comment

“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”—Eleanor Roosevelt

“Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drowned your own inner voice. And most important, have the [...]

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What can we learn from Ning and Bebo?

By cathyma On April 22, 2010 · 2 Comments

Eyeball does not equate revenue and consumers get bored quick if your product does not provide meaningful experience.

Ning, a feature-rich social-networking site recently announced that they are phasing out free services.  The website actually has been well received by its user base, with 2.3 million user-created Ning Networks and more than 45 million registered users. [...]

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Shoulder and wrist pain, anyone?

By cathyma On April 12, 2010 · 5 Comments

A good friend of mine has been complaining about her wrists that hurt so bad she has started visiting the physios regularly – and she’s only in her twenties!  That made me think, how many of us (who sit in front of a computer all day) are constantly suffering from back pain, shoulder pain and [...]

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Are you lucky?

By cathyma On April 7, 2010 · 3 Comments

One of those days you sit in the park with a friend that clicks with you, and you start talking like Plato (or Plato-wannbe) .  My mate and I were talking about what makes people lucky.  It reminded me of a scientific research I have read and it’s a fascinating finds – there are [...]

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On Being Woman, on being Human

By cathyma On March 6, 2010 · Leave a Comment

I picked up on Danah’s post commenting on Clay Shirky’s post on ‘A Rant about women’,

It’s tempting to imagine that women could be forceful and self-confident without being arrogant or jerky, but that’s a false hope, because it’s other people who get to decide when they think you’re a jerk, and trying [...]

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Information Architecture, explained in one-minute

By cathyma On February 5, 2010 · 4 Comments

‘Mommy what do you do?’

Pure awesomeness.

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What would you look like when you’re 72?

By cathyma On February 4, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Truly inspirational,

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What Love means to a 4-8 year old.. .

By cathyma On January 25, 2010 · 7 Comments

Hi peeps, another forwarded email that I like to share but you all know that I don’t like forwarding email, so I’m posting here as I thought you may like it, too.  Enjoy.  Oh and kindly let me know if you find where to attribute.

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A group of professional people posed this question [...]

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