Cbaum

Chris Baum

San Francisco, CA
37.77916, -122.420052
cbaum.blogspot.com
Title IA & Experience Strategist, Editor
Organization Boxes & Arrows, CloudRaker
Your Current Industry consulting
Favorite Movie Quote You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Favorite Place You've Lived San Francisco, St. Louis
Favorite UX Tool or Technique mental model

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IA Summit Podcasts - Posting on B&A has started

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Hi folks, We've started posting the podcasts on B&A. There is one from the first day and two each from days 2 and 3. We'll be posting them over ...

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Down On The Farm

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In his 2007 TED talk, Michael Pollan discusses the arc that has taken him from his garden to his truly illuminatory set of books (from Botany of De...

Possible, But Terrifying

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Jeremiah Owyang, indomitable social media analyst, absolutely nails why large organizations will find it very, very difficult to allow the level of...

I Think, Therefore What?

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Here are two sentences that capture where I am at the moment:[O]rganizations have simply lost a sense of what it actually means to be creative. For...

Not Getting Ahead Of Ourselves

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Recently on the excellent bplusd blog, Jess interviews Brandon Schauer of Adaptive Path about designers' desire to contribute to the strategic disc...

No Dearth of Words

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Hello, all!Though quiet the blog front be for me, the words flow ever more. Trust that, when I've something to say, it will appear in this exact sp...

Tour '07 Continues In Portland Next Month

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Hey all,Back in minor self-promotion mode, I'll be speaking at WebVisions in Portland, May 3-4 on the how technology allows (or makes!) us step out...

Housecleaning

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So as I noted a couple of posts ago, this year has gotten off to a very interesting start. First the articles on Boxes & Arrows and the IA Summit p...

All Talk?

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Hello, design world.What will you do with the influence that you have collected over the last couple of years? Some people are doing great things, ...

A Slight Bit of Horn Tooting

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Hi All,I have been somewhat remiss in not mentioning a couple of things that I've been working on with my friend and colleague, Jeff Lash.Jeff and ...

Organizations & The Conceptual Age

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In A Whole New Mind, Dan Pink discusses the transformation of the worker from left-brain focus to a more balanced approach. He also discusses at le...

Ear-to-Ear

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For all those folks toiling in the depths of Corporate Life, may you find hope at a Big Box Retailer extraordinare.Smashing the ClockNo schedules. ...

Means to an End

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So Gizmodo might want to think a bit about why Apple would enrich network executives by paying them well for licensing their TV series for download...

Breathless

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Some of you know that my quiet has not been for lack of happenings. The main thrust of which is that I'm now in the online video industry, rather t...

Will Work for Free

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Rojo points this morning to Yay Hooray, where people are redoing famous logos in "Web 2.0" style.*I want to know when someone at the top of the bra...

Did You Hear That Tree Falling?

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SXSW and the IA Summit must have given everyone a hangover. On Technorati, there are barely 3 pages of blog entries about Flickrites Stewart Butter...

New Plane(s) of Existence

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Hello, World!Thanks for coming tonight. Just back from Vegas. Oops, I mean Vancouver. IA Summit, baby! I've got a bit of a snippet to share from Ka...

Testing the Dam

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Hello there, stalwarts! I haven't disappeared. Just letting some new ideas percolate.As a humorous aside, take Khoi Vihn's excellent description of...

Yin Yank

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On a flight from New York to San Francisco, I had the lately-rare opportunity to actually sit and read a magazine. The February 2006 issue of Wired...

Adapt or Die

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Peter has another spot-on post about how upstarts like Moveable Type and Salesforce.com erode the foundations upon which enterprise software compan...

User Experience As Sustainable Advantage

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If you want to see people finally starting to quantify and analyze why businesses need UX practitioners, read the excellent McKinsey Quarterly arti...

Filling the Media Vacuum

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We in UXland like to think that the effects of technology are liberating and benevolent. Sometimes, though, we see unintended effects on our intell...

Reality, Gorgeous Reality!

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Thanks, John Battelle.None other than that bastion of media gravity, the New York Times, is helping us get out the word (registration req'd) that t...

More Than Philanthropy

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Alex Steffen has a great quote from his talk with Bruce Sterling at SXSW '05 on what he calls "attention philanthropy.""Not all of us have money to...

Talk About Time-shifting

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During a special presentation of the SD Forum in August, John Markoff discussed his book about the 60's counterculture and it's effects on technolo...

Reasonable Return on Effort

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Anil's post about the reward for building and "flipping" companies these days really resonates with some of my ideas about how simple, useful tools...

The Purpose-driven Life

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Dan Pink is happy to report that people are slowly realizing that wealth and more possessions are not making them happy.This desire for fulfillment...


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Comments

Theresa Putkey:

Duuuude, I guess you're going to the conference! Me too! We definitely have to meet up.

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