Blog Pattern Language
By Sam Martin - October 9, 2009

NPR's "Digital Think In" is underway at frog's San Francisco with about 75 media and technology leaders across a variety of disciplines helping the public media company envision the next stage of a digital media strategy. Hosted and facilitated by frog design, this one-day interactive workshop is exploring alternative business models, news gathering opportunities and distribution outlets, as well as develop scenarios for NPR's digital future.
Blog Pattern Language
By Sam Martin - October 23, 2008
In the past two weeks, there’s been at least a dozen stories in the mainstream and not-so-mainstream media about the importance of innovation in a recession. For businesses, refocusing on R&D and innovation really is a good strategy in down times. There’s plenty of historic evidence to back the claim up (the invention of farming technologies and civil engineering breakthroughs in the Great Depression, alternative energy investments in the early 1970s, and a sharpening of Internet business models after the dot com bust in the late 90s).