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…
I can’t find the reality line
I went to the super-well-done Cyberposium at Harvard Business School Saturday. A highlight was having the founder of Second Life, Philip Rosedale, explain his virtual world…
Facebook and MySpace release targeted advertising.
I absolutely believe that social network advertising potential has only barely been realized. These targeted advertising moves by Facebook and MySpace advance the ball. But I…
Open Social or Open Warfare?
clipped from http://www.nytimes.com On Thursday, an alliance of companies led by Google plans to begin introducing a common set of standards to allow software developers to…
Design School must mean something different to BusinessWeek
I’m really astonished at BusinessWeek’s current global survey of the best design programs in the world. (The Top Design Schools) It does indeed include many of the best,…
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…
The less buttons the better
In today’s NYT, David Pogue extolls the virtures of the new at-home movie box Vudu. He writes, The remote rocks. It has only four buttons……[it] is…
Facebook opens profiles up to search engines
This week, Facebook announced it will open up its profiles to search engine spiders. What does that mean? At a practical, detail level, it means a…
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