by David | Jun 29, 2009 | design, transportation, urbanism
Last week I spent some time in NYC, almost all of it on the West side, upper, middle and lower. As usual, I took the subway, and along the way I noted two ends of the lifecycle of transportation: the birth of a new station on the 7 line, and the rebirth as a park of...
by David | Jun 27, 2009 | design
The problem with a lot of good design is that it’s a pain to clean it. Great design includes forethought on the cleaning department, if you ask me. So every few months, I find that despite my best borderline OCD hand washing, my Apple wireless keyboard needs a...
by David | Jun 26, 2009 | technology
Dad wanted a phone “with a camera and internet and keys that aren’t too small to see”, so for Fathers’ Day I picked one up, a 3G flip phone from a major manufacturer with T-Mobile’s mobile web thing. What dad wanted most was to be able...
by David | Jun 24, 2009 | photo, urbanism
The Flatiron Building is an iconic landmark in New York City. When I chanced to walk by this week, I saw many people taking pictures of the building, some tourists snapping themselves next to it, some more serious looking photographers looking for a new angle on the...
by David | Jun 23, 2009 | economics, working
I was having a great discussion about all things marketing last week, and it got on the topic of the difference between B2Band B2C marketing approaches. I jumped out on a limb and claimed that they are in fact the same – in each case, the goal is to deliver the...