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Coolhunt Log #19 Thursday, May 10, 2007 On Stage: Scott Cooper, MIT research affiliate with the Sloan School of Management, co-author of Coolhunting Peter Gloor, MIT research affiliate with the Sloan School of Management, co-author of Coolhunting Raymond Miles, Professor Emeritus and former Dean of the Haas Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations Group, University of California - Berkeley Scott Capdevielle, CEO and Founder of Syndicom and SpineConnect Steve O'Keefe, moderator MODERATOR: I'm calling from my business office in New Orleans. Could you tell us where you're calling from? PETER: I'm calling from my home office in Switzerland. SCOTT: I'm calling from my home office in Newton Highlands, MA. MODERATOR: We have two special guests with us today. Raymond Miles is Professor Emeritus and former Dean of the Haas Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations Group at the University of California at Berkeley. We also have Scott Capdevielle who is CEO and ...

Coolhunt Log #14 Thursday, May 3, 2007 On Stage: Scott Cooper, MIT researcher with the Sloan School of Management, co-author of Coolhunting Steve O'Keefe, moderator MODERATOR: Could you tell us where you're calling from? SCOTT: Today, I'm calling from my home office in Newton Highlands, MA. MODERATOR: I'd like to remind everyone of the rules of the Coolhunt. We do at least one site, one blog post, one comment on another blog, and try to make one personal connection via email or phone. MODERATOR: I'd like to mention that next week on the Coolhunt we're going to have a guest speaker with Syndicom's SpineConnect. SCOTT: I'd like to report that I posted to dailytech and mediavidea, praising them for their reporting on the big story on Digg reversing its position on posting some antipiracy code. YouTube also spread the code via a video where one guy wrote a song that included the code, and it has played more than 45,000 times. It appears that the code is bein...

Coolhunt Log #8 Wednesday, April 25, 2007 On Stage: Scott Cooper, MIT researcher with the Sloan School of Management, co-author of Coolhunting Peter Gloor, MIT researcher with the Sloan School of Management, co-author of Coolhunting Steve O'Keefe, moderator Leading the Coolhunt today is Scott Cooper. SCOTT: I'm really excited about where we're starting today. In Coolhunting, we talk a lot about bees and beehives. In fact, one of the original ideas for a title was "Innovation Beehive." This morning, when I went to O'Reilly Radar, there was a post entitled "Thoughts on the Hive Mind." WEB: http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/04/thoughts_on_the.html SCOTT: This is a post by Brady Forrest, commenting on Jordan Schwartz's concept of extended thoughts. Let's take a look at Schwartz's blog article entitled "Hive-Mind Backyard Beekeeping." WEB: http://www.hive-mind.com/bee/blog/2007/04/beekeeping-and-hive-mind.html SCOTT: Schwartz te...