This past week I took the train into NYC to attend my very first meetup for the Augmented Reality New York (ARNY). Due to a rain/traffic combo, I missed the earlier express train from New Haven and arrived at the Porter Novelli office on Varick Street just after the first presentation, a game demo, […]
Over the past 30 days I’ve been watching repeatedly the recent Ironman movie as well as Batman Begins and the Dark Knight. As I’ve written in the past, I am very intrigued by the idea of singular super-empowerment: the idea that one person can transform themselves into something greater, for good or for evil, […]
Pardon my take on an old Todd Rundgren song, but this past week I saw a lot discussion within Augmented Reality tweet-streams about the possibility of Apple making a head mounted display (HMD) that really looked dated. Five years ago, or so, Oakley began manufacturing a sunglasses/audio playback device, called Thump. I wrote them […]
Yesterday, Christmas Day, I read about Jason Calacanis‘ excitement about Blippy, a new social way for people to share what you’re buying with others. YIKES. I signed up for the beta waiting list of course, but started to think about the ramification of monitoring everything that I buy over time. Everything from […]
Here we are on the cusp of 2010 – less than three weeks away. Yet this week my attention was drawn to the fact that both the House and the Senate may be passing an expansion of the Low-Power FM (LPFM) Radio Service Act (Local Community Radio Act, HR1147 and S592) before returning home […]
A friend of mine just sent me a text message, asking about my satisfaction with the new Motorola Droid that I just picked up a few weeks back. My satisfaction with this little device, and continued excitement still today, can’t be emphasized enough. The last time I was this excited about a digital device […]
It’s not yet 5:30am, but since late last night I’ve been really focused on this idea of an individual as superempowered - thanks in most part to author John Robb and a few other sequence of events. While I’m certain that when I was younger I felt like I could do anything, even here at […]
This past week in my musical life has been interesting. Early in the week, I read a post on a great 80s Music blog – Slicing Eyeballs – about the release schedule for John Peel sessions featuring literally dozens of artists performing within the BBC studios at the height of their musical creativity. […]
I spent the better part of last month renegotiating my salary and title with my current employer and basically threatening to leave to start my own companies. I’ve promised my CEO all along that I would never leave his company to go work for another employer - only that I would create my own business(es). […]
This past Thursday, I was on a flight bound from Phoenix to Charlotte as part of my path back home to Connecticut. I had just co-presented a session on Social Media to over 200 franchisees. I was in the middle seat, relaxed and enjoying my iPod, with two females on either side of […]