My dog is for sale
I love the custom manufacturing business models of Zazzle, GoodStorm and CafePress. They blend made-to-order JIT manufacturing with UGC, seemingly as effortlessly as ABC. Example: upload…
Super Tuesday
Going to the polling station always makes me happy. The obvious reasons are the same as everyone else’s: I am happy to live in a democracy…
Raymond Loewy: Father of American industrial design?
There’s a great exhibit at the National Heritage Museum in Lexington; “Raymond Loewy; Designs for a Consumer Culture.” It’s full of visual interest (it’d be a…
1977 JC Penney Catalog
They say that the first rule of creating a good blog is to be consistent and focussed. Alas, I consistently trample all over that rule because…
Cultural overload
Going to the Connecticut Forum this week highlighted the appeal of small to medium size city living. I could imagine that, if I lived in Hartford, I…
Craig, Jimmy, and danah, unplugged
I went last night to a very stimulating panel session “The Technology Revolution” sponsored by the terrific Connecticut Forum, in Hartford. Jimmy Wales and Craig Newmark…
Bonding in the aisles of Target
The day before we left our newly minted college freshman son at university, we made the ubiquitous Target run in his chosen city, Pittsburgh. Even in…
Community Service: further pondering
Update: I’ve been thinking more about the funny experience my son had with the soccer camp. The British coach really thought this mandated community service idea was…
Community service? You must be daft!
My fifteen-year-old just spent a week as a volunteer assistant in a local kids’ soccer camp. Why? He loves the sport and he needs 40 hours…
Tree mugged by plastic bags
Shortly after moving there, I commented on the appalling litter in Dublin to a Canadian friend. She replied, “You should have seen it when I first…
Jules Pieri 