by David | Apr 4, 2010 | culture, media, technology
I started the passover season with the first five plagues of social media, and despite a considerable transportation delay incurred by of all things a flood, I’m back with a few more plagues this Sunny Easter morning. To refresh your memory: Spam Corporate...
by David | Nov 3, 2009 | culture, design, economics, media, reading & writing, technology
I watched with interest as Barnes & Noble released the Nook, an electronic book reading thing that’s pretty similar to Amazon’s Kindle. I immediately thought of Microsoft’s Zune music player, released well after Apple’s iPod had pretty...
by David | Nov 2, 2009 | media, photo, reading & writing, technology
As you may have noticed, October was a pretty poor month posting-wise here at limeduck world headquarters. I was therefore quite excited to see a new inbound link in my dashboard. I followed it and found another example of an all-too-common blogging phenomenon:...
by David | Jul 30, 2009 | technology, transportation, urbanism
I was excited to hear that Google maps had finally added Boston’s public transit system. Now you can get directions around Boston for driving, walking, and public transit. Of course, the MBTA website has been providing a trip planning service for some time. ...
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 26, 2009 | technology
Dad wanted a phone “with a camera and internet and keys that aren’t too small to see”, so for Fathers’ Day I picked one up, a 3G flip phone from a major manufacturer with T-Mobile’s mobile web thing. What dad wanted most was to be able...
