Working at the intersection of technology + community + business
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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SET ASIDE the Big Issues for a moment. You know, stuff like the Economic Crisis, Election Results, and all the rest of it. Let us, instead, address the concern that many of you may have after reading about this week’s latest bankruptcy filing – that of American Media in Boca Raton, FL. OMG! What will [...]
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AS THE POLITICAL SEASON in the US goes into its final screaming weeks, it is hard not to get body-slammed by some wall of anger hurled across the room, usually in digital form. Online comments bubble over with mindless rants from anonymous Tea Party know-nothings. The inbox is inundated with angry emails from Move-On zealots [...]
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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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YIKES, I hate the headlines we’ve been seeing past week. Google and Verizon create a side deal to head off net neutrality… Pennsylvania’s Lower Merion School District gets off scot-free for using school-distributed computers to record 56,000 images of unsuspecting students and their families at home… Some 380 million eggs have been recalled because they [...]
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AS EVERYONE WHO has ever had a child in school knows, June comes with a reading list. You know, that group of titles from which your summering youngster must select and report back on in September? We’re lucky in our little cottage because a) said summering youngster likes to read and b) the books on [...]
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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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