Across a nearly frozen tundra of Southie parking lots lies a new museum

by JS on December 30, 2006

We checked out the freshly-opened ICA museum the other night. The building is gorgeous, the views of the waterfront from inside are really something, and the Wolfgang Puck-branded café served up extremely tasty (if a bit pricey) sandwiches. But yes, (…)

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merry geeky christmas

by JS on December 25, 2006

Cramming too much crap into PowerPoint isn’t handholding, it’s assault

by JS on December 20, 2006

Last week at work, I was asked for my opinion about a deck-in-progress for a meeting. My coworker was pretty sure she knew what my answer was going to be — it is generally a variation on the theme of (…)

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Sometimes you need to wander off the path to find your way

by JS on December 16, 2006

I monitor feeds to detect patterns, see how conversations are evolving, and discover sparks worth further investigation. One signal I’m picking out of the noisy web lately seems different somehow. Here’s what I’m hearing: change fear losing mojo making mistakes (…)

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Twelve favorites on the twelfth

by JS on December 12, 2006

It’s that time again — I post my annual schizophrenic eclectic list of the media bits I enjoyed most in the last year. Same ground rules apply for this, my fifth list: things have to be new-to-me in the last (…)

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