Clever definition of innovation

I met with Art Hurtado, CEO of Invertix, this week and he gave me a
great definition of innovation: creativity + a sale. What a
fantastically simple, catch-all definition.

No Porn Here

Was brainstorming innovative ideas on how to get more traffic to my blog and
found this nifty "adult" option to enable under Blogger settings.

What better way to generate page views than to offer porn?

I don't suppose this tactic will work with a class of IT grad students. . .

Email Posting

I finally spent the five minutes (tops) required to enable posting to
Blogger via email. Email posts are missing all the glitz of graphics,
but for quick easy postos, it's the way to go.

To enable the feature:
1) Log in to blogger
2) Under Settings, choose "Email and Mobile"
3) Choose a secret email address under posting options
4) Any emails sent to this new address will become blog posts.
Subject line is the post title and the email body is post content.

Happy posting!

Government funded innovation

It's interesting how many innovative gadgets began life in a military laboratory. GPS and the Internet are obvious examples, but the T-Shirt? This wired article touches on many well-known gadgets whose roots were in the military. Often, as is the case with innovation, these gadgets were invented for purposes entirely different than what they are used for today. What's more innovative: inventing a new way to track satellites, or realizing that the tracking technology has commercial navigational purposes (GPS)? Each of these innovations show that innovators aren't necessarily inventors-sometimes they just make good things great.