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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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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WHEN THIS SPIFFY white 2000 Cherokee Classic rolled off the assembly line, it didn’t dream that broadband, mobile, and online technologies would figure in its future. But without them, well, we wouldn’t have known its story. It all starts with a car-enthusiast friend who has a fondness for classic Cherokees. For fun, Enthusiast reads car [...]
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AM TRYING REALLY HARD to keep an open mind here. Know that applications often provide unexpected and greater benefits than first appear on the surface. But still … I don’t get it!!! I just don’t get the attraction of “location based social applications.” I’m talking about the suite of products that includes Foursquare, Gowalla, and [...]
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BACK IN THE DAWN of time – well, OK, in 1994 – I was the executive producer of an exciting bit of movie making called “The Tablet Newspaper: A Vision for the Future.” (Check it out on Vimeo at http://vimeo.com/17295950) For that video, we created a tablet out of plastic and molding materials. And then [...]
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THIS WEEK I WAS Out & About to a company that makes pretty cool use of technology. It was a place where chemistry, materials science, physics, biology, and botany were deployed in creative and effective ways. And, oh yeah, the products tasted pretty darn good too. I was at a farm. The E&T Farms (http://www.eandtfarmsinc.com/) [...]
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When is a game more than game? When it’s the Wii! That’s right, Nintendo’s Wii game console is the platform that crossed the gap between gamers and world at large and, as I learned about this week, it has applications that go far beyond simple fun. The Wii is everywhere. At the end of 2009, [...]
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