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We bought a Wii this morning on Amazon. And it was my wife’s idea.
I’ve never owned a console. I bought a vintage game-in-a-joystick set a few years ago and was a dedicated MAME gamer for a while, but never made the leap to modern systems. My college suitemates who brought an NES to school and [...]

Generally, it’s because they aren’t just slapping a new coat of paint (er, HTML+CSS) on the same pig. In the most successful cases, they’re a complete rethink of what the site is trying to communicate and a complete new set of ways to make that happen.
That appears to be the case with the redesign of [...]

It is surely a moment of synchonicity: I finally get around to reading the latest Technology Review containing Bruce Sterling’s short story about the death of architecture as a profession, and I read that MIT sues Frank Gehry for negligence over leaks in the Stata Center.
Heh.
I actually like the Stata Center, but I don’t have [...]

Hard to believe I graduated from Sloan just five years ago (give or take a day). In ways it feels like an eternity; in others like it was just yesterday. Looking forward to seeing some old friends at the reunion tonight and this weekend.

I’ll be making an infrequent return to the MIT campus this afternoon on a career panel, talking about non-traditional recruiting paths. Sloan alums will remember my vocal skepticism of the value of traditional MBA recruiting, which at most schools seems designed to funnel MBAs into consulting or banking while giving other options short shrift. So [...]

…to my Sloan friend Charlie, who just ran the New York Road Runners Manhattan Half-Marathon on Sunday in a respectable 2:07:32. Considering that it was in 20° weather (14° with wind chill), that’s a pretty darned good start to life in the marathon lane. Onward!

Breaking news this morning was that Dick Schmalensee, the dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management, will be stepping down at the end of the year to return to research. What is interesting to me is that (a) two other school deans (the head of Engineering and Science) are stepping down at the same [...]

ZDNet: Nine great podcasts from MIT’s CIO Symposium. While the timeliness is questionable (the symposium, of course, was in June), it’s still nice to have this on the record and to allow other people to listen in.
If I recall correctly, particularly interesting sessions were The Habits of Highly Effective IT Leaders, with our own Brian [...]

My feet and back are sore but my heart is light; the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium was a big success, with attendance up and all logistics smooth. I will write more about my experience later, but in the meantime there’s an audio interview by eWeek with Google’s Dave Girouard at the CIO Symposium.

One of the more unusual panels this year at MIT Sloan’s CIO Symposium has some speakers who aren’t usually at IT conferences. We’ve pulled together the VP of Media Applications at ESPN, the Managing Director of IT for NASCAR, the VP of Technology and eBusiness for the Boston Bruins and TD Banknorth Garden, and the [...]

I’ve been working on the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium for the last few months, helping to pull together this annual conference that brings together CIOs from across corporate America with thought leadership and technologists from industry. This year’s topic is about maximizing the business value of IT, something that’s near and dear to my heart.
Over [...]

Looks like George Chang is blogging again—and posting to Flickr. Some really killer underwater photos. He finds that keeping a separate blog for water (SCUBA, photography) and vacation related topics has helped jump-start his writing. I found the same thing when I was doing the Boycott Sony blog. I don’t really have time for doing [...]

So Caltech rescued their cannon yesterday. It took 24 of them, they did it in broad daylight, and there was no indication of a return joke (though the MIT cheer at the end was a nice touch). Also not mentioned: what happened to the big Brass Rat? I’m looking forward to seeing what the CalTech [...]

Ever feel nostalgic for the good old days of MIT hacks, where devoted, slightly nutty students pulled off feats of engineering brilliance while evading the watchful eye of campus security? Well, mourn no more, Bunky, cause the MIT hackers are back with a vengeance. I think moving a Spanish-American War era cannon across the country [...]

Courtesy of Sloanblogger Cybersam, a little insight today into the MIT Enterprise Forum’s latest offering, discussions of how to make a great business pitch from a CEO perspective and a VC perspective. A lot of the advice from both sounds familiar from years gone by, but I didn’t (foolishly) blog it at the time. Very [...]