This Week in Sensors
and a few articles I’ve missed over the last few weeks: Robots with odor sensors alert you to bad breath not exactly sensor related, but an increasing number of airlines are looking at charging passengers by weight. Samoa Air is already charging by weight. With the broad digitization of everything, one could imagine that in the […]
The Future of the Newspaper and the Modern Colonial Tavern
There has been much written about how digital is broadly changing news dissemination, but beyond simple replacement of the paper alternative and an acceleration of “news” to satisfy an always-on consumer, I think there is a deeper change afoot. Yes, “traditional news” is undergoing significant change through the direct and indirect influences of digitization – […]
The Direction of Curation
Several changes are underfoot which could be shifting the direction of curation. Over the last 24 months major content distribution platforms have been steadily moving towards becoming more curation focused. Curation feels like the natural evolution of content. As companies try to move up the value chain they become more focused on curation. As they seek […]
How More Cameras Could Stop Terror
Jonathan Turley wrote last week that more surveillance would not likely stop the type of violence we witnessed in the Boston Marathon bombing. Turley writes, “as a thousand papercuts from countless new laws and surveillance systems slowly kill our privacy, we might want to ask whether a fishbowl society will actually make us safer or just […]
Assorted Links
The New York Times on the next Federal Reserve Chairman. I’ve had the opportunity to meet with Janet Yellen on several occasions. She is insightful and extremely pleasant. She is definitely a “small lady with a large I.Q.” During the first two years of the nation’s economic recovery, the mean net worth of households in the upper […]
Best Buy’s European Exit: Thoughts on What Scales Well
Yesterday Best Buy announced they were exiting Europe through the sale of the 50 percent stake in their European joint venture to their partner in the JV – Carphone Warehouse. The deal totals roughly $775M – 573M in cash at closing, $124M in common stock of Carphone Warehouse with a 1-yr lockup period, $39M in […]
Lessons from Little League: Motivation
With three boys playing baseball, I spend every evening on the baseball diamond and the hours after I get home are often filled with more batting practice in the basement. I’ve learned a lot about baseball, boys, and myself through coaching over the last 5 years. I thought I’d share a few of these life […]
April 2013 Travel Log
By the time I hit April and May, baseball season is in full swing (pun intended) so I’ve tried to limit my out-of-DC time during those months. Here’s a recap of my travel during the month of April: 1 trip 3 airports (IAD, NRT, HKG) 4 flight segments 17,189 total miles 1 red-eye 2 nights […]
Kids Coding and Why I’m excited about Tynker
I’ve written before about kids & coding. The programs I’ve tried with my oldest child (currently 9) haven’t been a great fit. Which makes me excited to try Tynker (see here and here).
The Great Promise of Technology
At rare times in our collective history a tech product is introduced – one that is so new it doesn’t have a market. It’s capabilities and functionality are largely undefined – left to others to uncover. These devices and services offer tremendous promise. They offer promise about what can come to fruition through the right application of […]