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...
by David | Jul 11, 2009 | economics, technology
Boston is not known as a late-night town. I met up with fashion blogger and journalista A for some bag shopping (more on my utter failure therat later) and sushi. She wanted to get an iPhone, too. Knowing that the Apple store was open later than the others –...
by David | Jun 23, 2009 | economics, working
I was having a great discussion about all things marketing last week, and it got on the topic of the difference between B2Band B2C marketing approaches. I jumped out on a limb and claimed that they are in fact the same – in each case, the goal is to deliver the...
by David | Jun 17, 2009 | eating, economics
There are some blog posts that can be published only when all the participants are dead, or at least only when one has moved on from that particular job. This is not one of them. I was browsing the aisles at a local big box store and spied something I had never seen...
by David | Jun 11, 2009 | eating, economics
I was chatting with J about her new venture, CSA Cookbooks (wherein farmers or CSA operators collaborate with her to create a cookbook customized to the ingredients available from that farm or CSA), and I wondered aloud, “does anybody ever pay for a single...
by David | Jun 4, 2009 | eating, economics, reading & writing, technology, working
Tonight the estimable Ken George, social media powerhouse at WBUR and impresario of Public Radio Kitchen, hosted a food blogger microconference in the lunchroom of the station. I suppose I was a bit of an impostor, as limeduck is only about 30% about food, but I was...
