Working at the intersection of technology + community + business
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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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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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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WEB 2.0. You’ve mastered it, right? You tweet. Your videos post to YouTube. Your resume highlights nestle into a LinkedIn bio. Your high school friends tracked you down on Facebook. You’ve added your favorite cinnamon roll bakery review to Yelp! This user generated 2.0 social web thing keeps chugging right along. Of course, you try [...]
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AS I TYPE this, I glance around the open TextWranger window on the monitor to the Sistine Chapel behind it. Music wafts and glides around me. I don’t know enough about music to identify what I’m hearing, only that chorales and voice form a multilayer of conversation and I end up feeling oddly calm and [...]
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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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