Dancing data

http://annehodgson.de/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/dancing-data.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadWhen I was at college, I found presentations based solely on statistics incredibly boring. I find it far more interesting to tell and to listen to stories about individual cases. Storytelling based in experience is still the easiest way to captivate an audience. But everyone appreciates how important statistics […]

iGoogle Artist themes launched

A launch party on the streets of Manhattan: Google took their new product, featuring visuals by big name designers from Jeff Koons and Philip Starck to Dolce & Gabbana and Akira Isogawa, to one of the most interesting areas of New York, the Meatpacking District, and projected the artwork onto the buildings. What a nice […]

Dragon’s Den: Rasam Soup

In this episode of The Dragon’s Den, a reality TV show that airs (gesendet wird) in many countries – here in Canada (CBC) – the Patil children are selling a stake (Anteil) in their father’s recipe for Rasam soup to the Dragons, a panel (Podium) of venture capitalists who invest their own money in the […]

Duffy: Mercy

Duffy’s song is my dancefloor ear candy of the year.

Pretty in blue

I was pretty blue a couple of weeks ago when my trusty laptop gave out on me – leaving me without equipment at a very bad time, just as I am getting ready to teach my first seminar for Management Circle.

Aretha Franklin/ The BossHoss

“The Beauty of Anger”? These funny bad boys from Berlin really exploit every cliché, don’t they, to turn Lady Soul’s and Dionne Warwick’s song inside out completely. What would we do without the battle of the sexes?

The Job

“The Job”, a short film by Jonathan Browning, Screaming Frog Productions 2007 takes a fresh new look at the immigrant labor debate: