Everyone is entitled to my opinion
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 30th, 2010
My friend Steve Woodruff tweeted this intriguing question earlier this morning. I’ve decided to answer this here because it needs more than 140 characters.
You see, Steve has unknowingly stepped on a trip-wire in the jungle that is my brain regarding social media technology. It regards centralized services. Sites like Twitter and Facebook are proprietary, top-down controlled [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 21st, 2010
My wife and I have been looking forward to visiting the completely reconstructed Ocean House in Watch Hill, RI for a couple of years. This is a project that was several years and $140+million in the making. The “old” Ocean House was originally built on a spectacular piece of oceanfront property in 1868 and served [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 9th, 2010
I may have a bit of a contrarian view on print media and advertising. Many have been predicting the demise of print and advertising. I would agree that this may be true on the web, because it is a different consumption experience. But print and advertising are still a good match. Print is still a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, food on Feb 4th, 2010
I’ve had a number of requests to post my tomato sauce recipe. I actually started with a published recipe, “Sally Colucci’s Gravy” (in some families, it’s called “gravy” as opposed to “sauce”) that I modified, and which has continued to evolve over time to be quite good. It generates a big quantity including about 15 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, food, social media on Nov 25th, 2009
One of my Boston social media buddies, Todd van Hoosear (@toddvanhoosear), set me off on a rant a couple of days ago by retweeting this from Jon Silk (@prgeek) in London.
I responded with a string of tweets, about how restaurants should put their actual street address in a prominent place so I can enter it [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 5th, 2009
What’s funny about this one is Laura (@pistacho) Fitton saying, “I only have about 200 followers on Twitter.” How times have changed. Now she has over 41,000!
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 5th, 2009
Back in August of 2007, in Twitter’s infancy, I had a cook-out at my house. One of the conversations revolved around the need for “groups” on Twitter. Since this feature, now called Lists, has finally been added, I thought it might be fun to see what people were talking about way back when. It seems [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, ecology on Jul 30th, 2009
Click to Play
Today I in the mail, I received a dose of the financial reports that I’ve come to expect from various funds and stocks that I’m invested in. The one from Barclay’s Captial just offended me. It’s as thick as a local phonebook and has densely printed prose, tables and graphs on every [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, technology on Jul 29th, 2009
I recently sent some form email to my congressional representatives and the FCC regarding the battle over wireless handset exclusivity agreements between the large carriers (ATT, Verizon, Sprint, T-mobile) and the phone manufacturers. These agreements are what force you to use ATT to get an iPhone, or other types of phone from other manufacturers. Like [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, food on Jul 4th, 2009
In honor of July 4th, Independence Day, I am going to school all of you in the preparation of a proper New England Lobster Roll. To the visitor to New England (”from away” as you’re known here) I will warn you that there are dining establishments that claim to serve lobster rolls, but most are [...]