Working at the intersection of technology + community + business
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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HERE’S A URL I want to share: http://www.broadbandmap.gov/nbm/speed (To navigate it well, use the menu options in the footer. By default the footer is turned off, so you’ll probably want to click on the “show footer” link at the lower right corner of page. The footer links are really pop-up menus to different ways of [...]
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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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THE FIRST week in January is traditionally a time to look back – hmm, let’s review top 10 trends of 2010? Or maybe a time to predict – top 11 trends of 2011, anyone? Or maybe, just maybe, it’s the perfect time to make a grand gesture. I’m going with the third. I started thinking [...]
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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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JUST BEFORE THANKSGIVING I was Out & About to the Park Plaza in Boston. Ahh, who doesn’t love that wonderful old hotel, especially when its curved wooden banisters and classic lobby gleam with timeless holiday decorations? Such a welcome change from the generic and sterile event venues! But I digress. This column is about technology, [...]
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