Rageh Inside Iran - Google Video

BBC’s Rageh Omaar embarks on a unique journey inside what he describes as one of the most misunderstood countries in the world, looking at the country through the eyes of people rarely heard - ordinary Iranians.

OXO, Remade in Japan

Article on the cultural insight necessary to bring OXO’s “Good Grips” products to Japan. They found they needed to redesign several products before being embraced by the market. Spatulas held differently, salad spinner became 35% smaller.

Handsets get taken to the grave - BBC News

Sign of increasing importance of the mobile phone as personal idenity/cultural token, or primarily urban myth?

“History and Kultur from San Francisco”

Occasional musings from San Francisco. Blog and podcast.