by David | Aug 23, 2009 | culture, eating, reading & writing, urbanism
I ventured to South Boston today to meet up with Fashion Blogger A. I was waiting in a cafe near the Broadway T and noticed a tragic typeo writeo error: Here’s the deal: Arugula is lettuce. Italians call it rucola. Rugelach are delicious pastry of Ashkenazic...
by David | Aug 19, 2009 | culture, economics, reading & writing
I’m a big proponent of the rights of authors to profit from the sale of their work, but I’m also a fan of the first-sale doctrine that lets me give away, lend or sell my copy of that work once I legally acquire it. So, while I am mindful that when I buy a...
by David | Aug 8, 2009 | culture, design, economics, media, reading & writing
The estimable Len Edgerly who produces a weekly podcast on all things Kindle ran a podcamp session called, “Will the Kindle save reading?” in which a group discussed the pros and cons of Kindle reading compared to paper book reading, and touched on some...
by David | Aug 4, 2009 | culture, economics
Podcamp Boston #4 is coming this weekend. It’s an “unconference” which means that anybody can give a session. If you need proof, look no further than the fact that they’re letting me present. I’m doing a discussion session with the...
by David | Jul 28, 2009 | culture, eating, urbanism
I had been tipped off to the opening of a new deli in the North End, and despite being rather skeptical of a new business that calls itself “famous,” I checked out Nick Varano’s Famous Deli at lunch today. I ordered pastrami. Hot, on rye, no funny...
by David | Jul 25, 2009 | culture, economics, reading & writing
I feel bad for whoever it was in the Amazon organization who first realized that they were about to remove 1984 from peoples’ kindles. “Why couldn’t it have been The Bridges of Madison County or something?” they must have wondered. They took...
