by David | May 2, 2009 | culture, design, eating, media, photo, urbanism
but it’s awfully nice nonetheless. I’m sitting in True Grounds coffeehouse after an excellent breakfast at Sound Bites with Prof. M, passing time and blogging while waiting for Somerville Open Studios to open their doors. Sound Bites offered up a satisfying classic...
by David | Apr 28, 2009 | culture, design, eating, media, reading & writing, urbanism, working
It’s not every day you go to a social media event in a cargo container sponsored by a shoe company and hear somebody invoke Thoreau when talking about Twitter. Today was just such a day. But first, I’ll back up to last night, when J (have I mentioned...
by David | Apr 22, 2009 | culture, design, media, urbanism
Last week the Young Members of DeCordova (YMOD) massed on Newbury street for a gallery walk. Both L and Professor M joined me and up to 75 other YMODers for a tour of nine Newbury street galleries. Honestly, we managed to visit only eight of them, and I’ll...
by David | Apr 20, 2009 | culture, design, economics, media, urbanism
Despite Professor M calling Shepherd Fairey some bad names, or perhaps because of it, I ventured to the ICA again this weekend. Adjectival museum buddy L joined me. I went prepared to really love or hate the work, but ended up feeling left a little cold by it, and...
by David | Apr 12, 2009 | media, technology
First Sunday each month Boston Media Makers at Doyle’s in JP. This April only It was the second Sunday to keep us alert. I brought my netbook, hipster PDA and cards. What’s with the mermaid? Lots of great people, some serious geeking out. Here are some highlights:...
by David | Mar 30, 2009 | media, technology, working
I’ve been doing webinars for a while as marketing vehicles and occasionally just for meetings. You can see some of them on Vimeo. As telepresence goes, a screen-sharing session with audio and sometimes video is pretty good. I’ve used a few different...
