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...
by David | May 20, 2009 | reading & writing, working
People like to beat up on CEOs. I figure it’s part of the job, but recently in a short span of time, I came across one article saying that CEOs don’t matter that much at all, and another suggesting that they should be boring. The Atlantic trotted out some...
by David | May 15, 2009 | economics, technology, working
I was mucking out my spam folder (where lots of not-quite-garbage bulk or automated email ends up) and accidentally opened this message which I ordinarily would have deleted on the basis of the subject line alone: Interesting. Some outfit that thinks I’m a...
by David | May 7, 2009 | culture, economics, working
Entrepreneurs rightly see turbulent times as opportunities. I’ve noticed a lot of attention lately being paid to co-working (not cow-orking) space, a form of low-key office rental for individuals, entrepreneurs, and increasingly, job seekers and small-time...
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 | 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...
