Dominic Basulto
Digital Thinker, Electric Artists
Dominic Basulto is a digital thinker at Electric Artists in New York and a contributor to The Washington Post's Ideas@Innovations blog. He is working on a manuscript of a new book on innovation called "Endless Innovation, Most Beautiful and Most Wonderful."
n [rebelmouse-image-imported /2011/02/18415113.jpg]nWhen I listened in on the Xerox conference call a few weeks ago, they mentioned a slew of innovative new products scheduled for the first half of 2007, […]
[rebelmouse-image-imported /2011/02/18413743.jpg] On Monday, the Wall Street Journal ran an online survey of its readers, asking them to predict which form of alternative energy would be most prevalent by the […]
[rebelmouse-image-imported /2011/02/18413352.jpg]Today is the day that die-hard Yankee fans have been eagerly looking forward to since October – Pitchers and Catchers Day down in Tampa, Florida. As Spring Training finally […]
[rebelmouse-image-imported /2011/02/18413830.jpg] Over on the On Disruption blog, software executive and guitar enthusiast Zack Urlocker has posted a great case study of disruptive change within the billion-dollar professional guitar industry. […]
[rebelmouse-image-imported /2011/02/18415028.jpg] One of the most interesting trends on Wall Street these days is the creation of the SPAC, or Special Purpose Acquisition Company, in order to bring IPO riches […]
[rebelmouse-image-imported /2011/02/18412481.jpg]Yesterday on the front page of the Wall Street Journal (“In Race to Take Tourists Into Orbit, Partners Split, Soar”), Andy Pasztor described the innovation grudge match between two […]
[rebelmouse-image-imported /2011/02/18414721.jpg] This is probably the single most disturbing thing you will read on this Valentine’s Day: an “innovative” Parisian fashion designer has decided that the waist-cinching corset should become […]
[rebelmouse-image-imported /2011/02/18415043.jpg] Over at Business Week, Bruce Nussbaum suggests that the growing backlash against innovation in the media is really a backlash against companies that falsely attempt to portray themselves […]
[rebelmouse-image-imported /2011/02/18415502.jpg] As seen on Reuters, Viagra plans to offer over-the-counter Viagra pills to British men for the first time ever starting today: “Men will be able to buy impotence […]
[rebelmouse-image-imported /2011/02/18413268.jpg] This has to be one of the most interesting events of the year – the first-ever New Yorker conference on innovation. The tab ($1,200), though, is a bit […]
n [rebelmouse-image-imported /2011/02/18415957.jpg]n If you’ve ever flown out of New York City, you know that it can be a nightmare actually getting out of Manhattan to the airport — it […]
[rebelmouse-image-imported /2011/02/18413427.jpg] Marketing guru Seth Godin coins new terms and expressions on a regular basis, and this time, he’s decided to trade in his Purple Cow for a Purple Sheep. […]
[rebelmouse-image-imported /2011/02/18415822.jpg] Bruce Nussbaum’s post over at Business Week about the Backlash Against Innovation has started to resonate throughout the innovation community. While Bruce points out that the real work […]
[rebelmouse-image-imported /2011/02/18415750.jpg]Every week, the Wall Street Journal publishes a quick-and-dirty “Tricks of the Trade” column with an expert within a certain field. Some weeks, it might be a wine sommelier […]
So, I was thumbing through the most recent issue of FORTUNE magazine and clipping out some advertisements from corporate sponsors that touched on the innovation theme. I came up with […]
[rebelmouse-image-imported /2011/02/18415796.jpg]As the Arizona Republic explains, for the past 2 1/2 years, a team of researchers at Arizona State and the University of Pittsburgh have been using a mix of […]
[rebelmouse-image-imported /2011/02/18413590.jpg]As part of its “Works & Process” series of events, the Guggenheim Museum in New York is presenting a lecture by legendary physicist, mathematician and futurist Freeman Dyson of […]
[rebelmouse-image-imported /2011/02/18416031.jpg] Let’s face it – deep down, you secretly long to create a popular YouTube video clip that you can brag about to your friends and colleagues. About two […]
[rebelmouse-image-imported /2011/02/18415542.jpg] This weekend’s New York Times Magazine featured a great cover story on Toyota, which explained how the Japanese company has become the acknowledged leader in the global automobile […]
[rebelmouse-image-imported /2011/02/18415003.jpg] If you’re looking for a quick Google fix this week, Information Week is dealing. Start off by learning more about Larry Page’s pet innovation projects. Apparently, the Google […]
[rebelmouse-image-imported /2011/02/18414787.jpg] One of the free online features of today’s Wall Street Journal is a trailer for Bollywood’s version of the Rocky Balboa story. (Look carefully – that’s not Sylvester […]
n [rebelmouse-image-imported /2011/02/18413904.jpg]nOver at the IdeaPort blog, Roger Dennis presents a PG-13 rated list of ten reasons why innovation is like tantric sex: n n 1. You can read lots […]
n [rebelmouse-image-imported /2011/02/18415994.jpg]nFans of the now-deceased Business Innovation Insider may remember that I posted about a live simulcast of the Metropolitan Opera in Times Square last fall. It was all […]
[rebelmouse-image-imported /2011/02/18414130.jpg]One of the hottest IPOs of 2006 was Heelys, the company that started a nationwide fad of skating around in shoes with wheels in them. (If you have the […]
[rebelmouse-image-imported /2011/02/18412206.jpg]If you think Google’s “20% Time” is a great idea for encouraging innovation and creativity, check out what IBM is doing. According to Computerworld, IBM’s offices in the U.S. […]
[rebelmouse-image-imported /2011/02/18413252.jpg] The past two weeks have been rough for JetBlue. Just before Valentine’s Day, the snow and ice that swept through the Northeast paralyzed the airline company’s operations in […]
n [rebelmouse-image-imported /2011/02/18414207.jpg] In the current issue of New York Magazine, Kurt Andersen describes the changing dynamics of the media business, with a focus on how established media outlets like […]
[rebelmouse-image-imported /2011/02/18413560.jpg] Over at the USACM Technology Policy Weblog, there’s a comprehensive summary of the first-ever public meeting of the Measuring Innovation in the 21st Century Economy advisory committee. This […]
[rebelmouse-image-imported /2011/02/18416300.jpg] A picture, as they say, is worth a thousand words. This was the cover of the February 17 issue of The Economist: “The end of the cash era.” […]
[rebelmouse-image-imported /2011/02/18414242.jpg] The European Innovation Scorecard, which measures the relative innovation performance of EU member nations vis-a-vis the U.S. and Japan, shows once again that the Nordic countries (Sweden, Finland, […]