Articles Posted in the " Life " Category

  • Buy local–for the right reasons!

    This image appears on Facebook every so often, and it makes an appeal to “buying local” by, in part, disparraging the “big chains” as being greedy, and implying that all the money goes out of town. While there is “truth”...


  • Are special use facilities a waste?

    This article in the Wall Street Journal is quite interesting, highlighting people now living in empty office buildings in London.  I have always looked at empty office buildings, and even empty strip malls, and wondered what it would be like...


  • Private Rights vs Public Good–who should win?

    Private Rights vs Public Good–who should win?

    Update:  The Citizen, Bobby Maguire, was given permission to use a 33′ right of way.  In exchange for his use (not ownership) of 1/2 an acre of land, he has voluntarily given to the state 1 full acre, and $15,000....


  • Content and Delivery entwined?

    Content and Delivery entwined?

    Must content and delivery be inextricably entwined? For centuries our ability to gather content and disseminated wirh tide is not just to the content but to the media and the physical media that was used for delivery. If you wanted...


  • Your life, as Venn (Diagrams)

    Your life, as Venn (Diagrams)

    One of the challenges I face is figuring out how to share my various [work interests/hobbies] in a way that shows the relationship between them.  Especially as an academic, trying to show how my various apparently dissimilar research efforts were related posed...


  • Seth Godin’s Un-Internship

    Seth Godin’s Un-Internship

    Wow–talk about game-changers. Seth Godin has a reputation among marketing circles (new and old media types) for shaking things up and helping us see the world “different.” He has written some amazing books that challenge our thinking (my favorite “All...