Archive for September, 2006

Anderson! Lessig! Smackdown!

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

Great discussion at the New York Public Library. Professor Lawrence Lessig from Stanford (author of Free Culture, CODE and other laws of cyberspace) and Chris Anderson (author of The Long Tail and Editor of WIRED magazine) were going to sit down and discuss "The Rise and Fall of the Blockbuster". I ...

Linkblogging 09/27/2006

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

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New Flickr Set - Street Signs

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

Working on the east side for the first time in years (Who's On First?) I have noticed a neat set of brass plates embedded in the sidewalk on 41st street between Lexington and 5th Ave. I see these every day on my walk home, and decided to photograph some this ...

I love C-Ville!

Saturday, September 23rd, 2006

Found this while surfing at work today (yes, thanks to J O B, I will be working all weekends from now through early November) thanks to Adrants: Welcome to C-Ville - Where Choices Define You C-Ville is an all-Flash site that teaches kids/teens about the risks of smoking, why making good ...

Psyched - woodworking class kicks off today

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

My excuse to leave the office before 8pm started tonight - Woodworking/Furnituremaking class at SVA downtown. We got a tour of the studio, discussed safety and the equipment available and talked about the why we were there and what to expect from the class. Homework? Figure out what I ...

Social Media Club - Fun Event

Tuesday, September 19th, 2006

Got the chance to hang out this evening with the crowd for the first meeting of the NYC chapter of the Social Media Club (whose tagline is "if you get it, share it"). Chris Heuer (founder of BrainJams, Media Literacy advocate and Bloggercon/Gnomedex attendee) and Howard Greenstein (ex-member ...

New Design, New Committment

Sunday, September 17th, 2006

Thanks to the J O B I have been neglecting the blogging again. This has to stop. The good news is we have a new NA Director of Technology, my current client is ramping up for a big launch in the coming months, I have made some decent progress on ...

LA Times launches its own aggregator…

Friday, September 1st, 2006

PaidContent.org (required reading) is running a post about how the LA Times is rolling out its own RSS newsreader. The paper, which has about 5.2 million unique visits monthly, is calling this aggregator NewsPoint. The newsreader has LA Times feeds pre-loaded, includes Video from a local partner and it is open ...