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Does a good domain name make or break a site? Does a good domain lend credibility that might otherwise be lacking? Would Amazon.com be more successful with Books.com? Would Cooking.com be more successful if it were named Williams-Sonoma? Will Business.com ever recoup the cost they paid for their name?

Have you ever had your rearview mirror fail and start dripping a strange black liquid all over your dashboard? And at the same time turn a fabulous mirror into a twinkle of its former reflection? I didn’t think so.

I’ve been thinking about ways to deal with overload and it occured to me that a lot of industries have a thing known as “Waiting Lists.” That’s a wierd idea but I wondered if it could apply to the services industry. Think about it a moment: What do we sell? Time. There’s only so much…

One time when I was a kid I went on a field trip to a Lays plant where they cut up potatos and made potato chips. Gosh, did I just simplify their business in one sentence? I think I did. So I think this all qualifies me to critique their web site. Don’t you? Everything…

I’m under the impression that in travel there is an unwritten rule that you never show train wreck movies on trains, airplane crash movies on airplanes, and ship sinking movies on ships. Somebody get on the phone with Princess Cruises, because they were planning to play Titanic on this cruise ship, which had a serious…

Tom Beddard, the guy that designed the interface for PHPBB has a new flash blog, and although the date nav mechanism isn’t the most intuitive, the morph/grow effect is cool when you go to the portfolio. I think I’ve seen it somewhere else but I can’t remember…