Thoughts on the All Things D Voices Kerfuffle

I've been following the back and forth between "All Things D" and a
few bloggers about the way "All Things D" treats excerpts in their
"Voices" section, and I don't think their recent changes help much. It
still seems to me that Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal are
trying for SEO and revenue on the backs of smaller bloggers.

Look at the byline. It lists the bloggers publication, but does not
link to it.

Also when you click on the headline, you stay within Voices, on a page
that only contains the excerpt from the blog. Why not take the reader
at this point to the blog?

The result is two instances for All Things D to sell ads and get SEO
from these excerpts. This is wrong.

Harvard Business Review on Innovators

I had an interesting conversation yesterday at the Creative Good Customer Experience Council on the emerging Innovator role in many organizations, and I recalled a Podcast that ended up on my iPod last year. In searching for it, I found these links to Harvard Business Review articles and two podcasts on the topic. Article: Finding and Grooming Breakthrough Innovators Article: Middle Manager as Innovator Podcast: On Design Thinking Podcast: Finding and Grooming Top Innovators

Richard Laermer: How Design Has Made "Okay" Products Stellar

I ran across this great piece by Richard Laermer on the value of design. Richard Laermer: Beauty Sells: How Design Has Made "Okay" Products Stellar