Reading at Elliot Bay tomorrow night

Quoted: The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics

Quoted: I hate hope. It was hammered into me constantly a few years ago when I was being treated for breast cancer: Think positively! Don't lose ...

peru, bhutan, croatia, spain, and portugal

Quoted: March Calendar of Events

I think allowing customers to move things would be total chaos. But that doesn't mean it wouldn't work or be interesting. A bookstore is probably one of the less well suited retail stores for this. I bet it would work at somewhere like Goodwill, where the merchandise is disorganized and non-fungible anyway.

While we're talking about moving things from online to physical retail stores, customer reviews sounds like something that could be interesting (lots of bookstores already have this). I want to go to the grocery store and start "reviewing" the food I bought.

Quoted: I'm wondering: could the same organizing principles that work for community web sites work for retail stores?

And add to that "what's fun for you/employees". Get all three and you've got something totally ridiculously amazing...

Quoted: The secret is simply this: you have a much better chance for success when your business model makes what's good for the users match what's good for the business, and vice-versa.

Dotting again (does it stick it at the top of my list), I'm going this Sunday (Oct 8), who wants to come?

Quoted: The Art of Eric Carle October 7, 2006 – January 21, 2007 Eric Carle’s first wholly original book was 1,2,3 to the Zoo, followed soon afterward by the celebrated classic, The Very Hungry Caterpillar.