Archive For The “Blue” Category
I was having lunch at Clyde Common with my friend and fellow techie Amanda Plyley today and over her shoulder I saw a guy who I thought looked familiar. And yep, sure enough it was Reggie Watts. How do I know Reggie Watts? – through a video on Vimeo. I introduced myself and told him [...]
I write about Zipcar periodically on this blog for the simple reason that I’m a passionate customer. When Scott Griffith, the CEO, says “Forty percent of our customers either sell their car or halt a purchasing decision of a car,” he’s talking about me. I sold our second car when I became a Flexcar (which [...]
The official reports on Davos were interesting. “But if the luminaries hoped for strong policy prescriptions from Ms. Rice, they were disappointed . . .” But I prefer the reports from participants, bloggers, who tell it like it is and give their opinion. “Seeing Condoleezza Rice speak was dreadfully painful – I hadn’t think it [...]
Deep, revealing piece in The Atlantic online version about HBO’s The Wire and its creator, David Simon. HBO is creating some of the most provocative TV out there, and it’s worth trying to understand why. “Dickens takes the byzantine bureaucracy of the law and the petty corruptions of the legal profession, borrows from the neighborhoods, [...]
I want bought one of these because WordPress is a great publishing (not just blogging) platform. Link. It’s what the Web is all about.
Someone who just friended me in Facebook, who I met at a party last Friday, has 289 friends in Facebook. That’s about 5x my network. And I think she knows/interacts with them all ( . . . pictures tell a thousand words). That’s just a massive amount of connectedness. It’s a great example of what [...]
My email inbox is “0″ this morning. Why because I use a lot of other tools for messenging, and the emails I do get I send on their way pretty quickly. Oh, and I also unsubscribed from every single email list I was on. So, I’m going to try checking my email every other day. [...]
I met this young lady this morning. She approached and said this is my ipod and this is my cell phone. She’s four, so give her about fourteen years or so to take on Zuckerberg.
I skyped my friend Brian Mulvaney, someone who knows something about everything, the other day and asked him what he was reading. He said William Gibson’s two books “Pattern Recognition” and “Spook Country.” He also said “I learned more about marketing from these two books than anywhere else.” That caught my attention. Then he said [...]
First Slate writes about Portland’s indie rock scene (“The Indie City“) now the NYTimes has a three-pager about the food (“In Portland, a Golden Age of Dining and Drinking“). Next up, tech.
I was browsing through a copy of Dwell this morning and saw a one-paragraph piece on Cyclocity, a public bike-sharing system by the French firm JCDecaux. You pay a yearly fee that gives you access to bikes around the city. Unlike Flexcar or Zip, which makes you bring your car back to the parking spot [...]
From yesterday’s Oregonian (front page): Chris Walla spent a month in Portland, walking to work at a church-turned-recording studio in Northeast and to Wild Oats for meals. It was the first time in his adult life that Walla, a member of indie darlings Death Cab For Cutie, didn’t need a car to get around. Then [...]
Vanilla Bicycles is a small shop in Portland where Sacha White handcrafts bicycles for people all over the US (and I think they’ve even shipped internationally). I met Sacha two weeks ago at a wedding of some mutual friends. But before the wedding, because the wedding couple had asked for one as their wedding gift [...]
If you read Dwell you know they’ve been a key player in the prefab construction movement. Prefab homes are built in modular pieces in a factory and then shipped to the construction site. For many years prefab has been associated with low-quality construction, trailer-home-level kind of stuff. But in the last five years or so [...]