ThinkableOrNot.com. Finally decided on a name for my new website. Wasn’t easy, as chronicled in three previous posts (parts one, two and three). Some names I liked a lot, like thinkerer and heystack, were unavailable — or available for some exorbitant fee. We’re talking thousands of dollars. Friends were asked to pick their favorite from a list. Opinions split. Read More …
To recap, we all get Googled, so it makes sense to help people find your best you. To that end, I’ve been brainstorming ways to put my full name in a web address, likely through buying a fresh domain. PeterMucha.com is taken, and I’m not looking to buy it from the Mississauga, Ontario, man who Read More …
The creative process out to be simpler. Sometimes, the right answer is just coming out and saying something. But naming is tricky. A product or a brand name wants to be unique, which tends toward the unfamiliar, while being memorable, which tends toward the familiar. You also want something short and easy to say, better Read More …
Look, I’m not a brand. Far from it. But, for professional reasons, I realize it’d be useful to have more of an online identity. Those agents who got a draft of my children’s picture book, what did they likely do? Googled me. Well, they sure learned a lot about a mathematics professor at UNC Chapel Hill. He’s all Read More …
Speaking of “selfyness,” that might be stealmyideasplease’s main flaw. Even when I blogged almost daily, can’t see the site really caught on. Should have … visited other sites and linked to them, for better e-karma … figured out how to involve others more. What if, instead, anyone could post an idea? Or post links to Read More …
Idea for an online amusement: A place where you can put anyone’s face on a famous painting. A whole gallery of paintings … all with faces that pop out. Upload your picture, position, and print. Voila! You’re in Manet’s The Picnic. Or grab a celebrity face from another gallery, and, zut alors, George Bush is Read More …
This CAN’T be original … it’s more of a realization sinking in. I constantly criticize strategies I see as pointless … and yet my own strategies are often pointless, too. Aha, I realize: You need to figure out how to give yourself advice. OK, let’s try that painful exercise. The Mucha rules: (1) Do some market research! Know your Read More …
See previous item. When there’s a way to search our own brains, it could be called the Noodle Google. or Google Noodle. Either that, or Google Noodle is a site where you search for pasta.
Instead of a collection of jokes, how about a book that’s a collection of punchlines? I’m just thinking it would be fun to browse through punchlines, then look up the joke. OK, it’s still a joke book, but the punchline variation would make it different. OK, it’s probably a better idea for the Web. Hmm … Read More …
Basically, this website looks like a house. Maybe an old house, maybe a new one, maybe you get to pick. But everyone is free to go around and destroy stuff. Tip that vase over. Crash. Take a sledge hammer to the walls. Drive a car into the porch. Take a chainsaw to spiral staircase, watch Read More …
YNBWHTMT.com. Or nevrbleve.com. Everyone tells their story. About a wild day. Anyone can submit to this blog. Best are stories are told by the actual experiencer. But, at first, or failing that later, it could post news stories where the main guy might say, “You’ll never believe what happened to me today!” A blog where everyone could post? Another blog Read More …
Holy freakin’ s-bomb. Think about this: When the day comes that machines master language, we’re all ego-doomed. Since anyone can implant a language chip in their brain (or at least in an earpiece), everybody can instantly find the best words. Then nothing will ever again believe that anyone is clever! No, it’s not you, babe, it’s your chip! Worse, Read More …
Sure, why stop at Google Earth? Start the ultimate picture project: Create a database of everybody’s picture on the planet. You can enter you … or any friend or family member. Plus people would verify each other, creating confidence scores, and hopefully weeding out aliases and scams. Call it Who’s Whoogle. Fits my theory: Someday Google Read More …
I’m inching forward with a spinoff from Steal My Ideas, Please. Rather than just give away ideas, through posts or emailed answers, I’m moving into developing some with friends and even total strangers. If you’re an illustrator, software designer, writer or JUST LOADED AND LOOKING FOR PLACES TO INVEST, check out www.wackydadandfriends.com. I hope to Read More …
We’ve all sent complaints about products into the black hole of customer relations, never to return. But just suppose, whenever we did, our complaints were automatically added to a poll. Say I emailed, “My defroster failed!” The next person would see my comment, too, and be asked, “Did you also experience this?” No, she’s complains, “There’s this weird clunking Read More …