http://cooltea.com/blog Business Innovation, Entrepreneurship, MultiMedia & Web Technology Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:50:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Creating this post is a mixed bag for me as many of you who know me, know that I advocate that Creativity is a Science and not an art or some abstract personality-based thing. And, I even have the mathematical proof to back this creative science which I wrote about ... http://cooltea.com/blog/brainstorming-is-only-25-of-the-creative-process/ While things may have seemed quiet on the front page for most of June, we were busy away working behind the scenes. Specifically in laying the marketplace foundation for digital downloads of Royalty Free Media Clips as well as installing new CoolTea Forums and upgrading our Blog. We are very excited ... http://cooltea.com/blog/new-forums/ Below is the seven minute video produced by Guiding Eyes for the Blind that features a licensed version of Katie Scott's Song for VanDyke which can be heard around 5 minutes into the clip - congratulations Katie! http://cooltea.com/blog/song-for-vandyke-licensed/ My first introduction with computers was circa 1975 with mainframes, punch cards and programming simplistic slot machines with random fruits - e.g., cherries, lemons, oranges, and dollar signs - any combination of which would spin and land in three-pane lucky display screen. It was also a time when I started to ... http://cooltea.com/blog/punch-cards-digital-resolution-and-angels-among-us/ The following is an account of a missing office chair and happy customer service ending ... the essence of which can be enjoyed per the following letter and here is the pdf version 22 April 2008 Mr. Ronald L. Sargent Chairman & CEO Staples.com 500 Staples Drive Framingham, MA 01702 Re: Take a Seat and Sit on ... http://cooltea.com/blog/sit-on-this-herculean-customer-service/ The following info was on our CoolTea home page for a while hence are parking it here in the blog for reference: Congratulations to the Danbury Animal Welfare Society (DAWS) - since the March 27th Woof On! Event at St. Stephen's, DAWS has gone on to make the cut from a ... http://cooltea.com/blog/about-daws-and-the-march-27th-woof-on-event/ Earlier today I posted the Elliott Scheiner audio clips and am now in the process of archiving the project files when I came across a handwritten note to myself - Mono Wins :) The note was written in the middle of the night when the computer was busy rendering the master files ... http://cooltea.com/blog/mono-wins-for-business-podcasts-plus-sonic-bug-for-branding/ On February 4th 2008, legendary audio recording engineer Elliott Scheiner (Beck, The Eagles, Steely Dan, Van Morrison, Fleetwood Mac, Natalie Cole, Bruce Hornsby, plus others) spoke at East Coast Music Mall about his record producing experience and take on the music industry today. I was lucky enough to attend this ... http://cooltea.com/blog/rock-on/ After being live with our CoolTea Classifieds for over 30-days, I was curious to see what the view-to-click ratio was for the ads that you see along the right side of your screen when viewing the classified listings. Turns out the number is just a little bit higher than traditional direct ... http://cooltea.com/blog/view-click-ratio/ In my previous post, I mentioned how and why CoolTea created a backend process to decline inappropriate Classified Listings. Well, we also had the reverse issue and needed to develop an admin system to extend and renew various classified listings - anywhere from an added 30 days to an additional ... http://cooltea.com/blog/reason-for-extensions/