Working at the intersection of technology + community + business
Brrrrrp. At 3:45 pm, as I type these words, the National Weather Service posted a wind advisory for Barnstable County. Brrrrrp. My NOAA Radio iPhone app let me know the advisory was in effect. Almost two years ago I spent a lovely spring day at a Gov 2.0 unconference in Cambridge (http://www.capeeyes.com/2010/03/the-unconference-a-whole-other-way-to-meetmarch-10-2010/). The group talked [...]
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If you don’t give it a try, you don’t know what will happen. That’s why I have to applaud the Town of Barnstable for taking a stab at something new. Or at least something new for this technically conservative region of the country. Earlier this month the town unveiled Barnstable iForum (http://www.barnstableiforum.com/), an interactive space [...]
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I LOVE MY FOOD, so when I hear the word sopa on a gray November day I think: mmmm, warm, soup, good. But this week’s political definition of SOPA is giving me the chills. SOPA, for those of you who don’t live in a world of technology or politics, stands for the Stop Online Piracy Act. SOPA, the [...]
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YOU’VE BEEN HERE, HAVEN’T YOU? You know, where you sit bolt awake for no particular reason at 2 am, sleep but a fleeting memory. You don’t feel like playing a computer game, there’s nothing on the tube but offers to buy cubic zirconium or to repent your sins, and you’ve read every single book on [...]
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I NEVER GAVE MUCH THOUGHT TO GEORGIA State University before. But now, well, a bit of glow comes from the name because I’ve been listening to a series of brief musical lessons on the history of jazz. Hmm, I guess I better connect a few dots here. It starts with iTunes U. In 2007, Apple [...]
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TODAY HOLDS A SPECIAL star in my calendar. Today, in a few hours, technology gets to shine in a way that changes life, literally. Today is Activation Day. During the past month, I’ve been working on several fronts, including – finally! – updating my tired old website. The site wasn’t bad – it just didn’t [...]
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YOU KNOW SPRING has sprung when your schedule is, once again, defined by softball. As in, driving your child to various fields and practice venues. Yeah rah rah spring! On the plus side, it pushes me into new territories, outside my natural comfort zone. That’s a good thing. And it’s how it happened that I [...]
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MY PHYSICAL WALLET bulges with stacks of loyalty cards, credit cards, membership cards, gift cards, coupons-I-might-use-someday, and receipts-I-should-remember-to-file. Every now and again, when the zipper threatens to separate from the leather, I dump it all out and sort through it. Why on earth do I haul this stuff around? A slender little book I read [...]
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I SPOTTED an interesting sounding article in the Boston Globe the other day, headlined “Ingenuity vs. Obesity.” (http://www.linkyy.com/6nU ) As one of the many whose life represents a constant struggle between “this tastes great” and “these jeans don’t fit,” I couldn’t help but jump in and start reading. About three paragraphs in, I started to [...]
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