I had a few minutes this afternoon with the PopTech 2009 Social Innovation Fellows to follow up on Beth Kanter‘s session yesterday on social media strategy. This is a group of younger social entrepreneurs, many of whom are quite savvy online, who use and will use social content to serve larger organizational purposes. Note: I’m [...]

As part of the faculty for the PopTech Social Innovation Fellows program (they are an incredible group) that is brought together before the PopTech conference, I am staying a little above Camden, Maine, near Lincolnville Beach. In the morning, it is quiet around our wooded cabins and quiet on the beach. Yesterday I drove to [...]

I’m in Camden, Maine this week and next for PopTech 2009, and yesterday I drove to Maine from Brooklyn, leading to this morning’s milestone of 100,000 miles on my car odometer—something I’ll celebrate on the way back to Brooklyn later this month. On yesterday’s drive, I stopped at the Maine Diner for very traditional Maine [...]

A splendid breakfast makes everything right. Two weekends ago, my sister Kat and her boyfriend Reid visited me in Brooklyn, filling the apartment with their energy, Kat’s vast knowledge of chocolate, and Reid’s curiosity about design in real life. I expect great things from both, of course, and they proved my expectation well-founded with a [...]

I’ve been thinking lately, while reading Richard Sennett’s The Craftsman (more on that soon) about the different cultural responses to replicants and robots in preparation for my favorite holiday of the year (at the end of this month). The podcast bifurcates, and there are a few new mixers included below that I’m following closely.

 

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