MercuryNews.com | 05/30/2006 | THE NEW MUST-SEE ON YOUR PC: YOUTUBE
(tags: youtube sjmerc)

The MP3 recording of the recent Skypecast I did with Chris Tolles of Topix.net and my colleague Pete Blackshaw is now available here. This was a tease to the Innovative Marketing Conference that Prof. Bernd Schmitt of Columbia University is producing with Francois Gossieaux of Corante June 8-9. It was a great discussion, though I [...]

Online Memorials Bring Strangers and Friends Together in Community of Grief
(tags: online mourning death)

MercuryNews.com | 05/29/2006 | Apple’s iTunes solo act is getting competition
(tags: iPod iDon’t iTunes)

Software to Look for Experts Among Your Friends - New York Times
(tags: collaborative social purchasing recommendations search)

Studios Turn Thumbs Down on Film Critics - New York Times
(tags: movies critics [...]

 
They say that mobile phones are making pay phones irrelevant, resulting in an eventual, complete phase-out. This Verizon pay phone at the Pelham Bay number 6 subway station in New York is being phased out for other reasons…only in New York. (Click on the image for hi-res image.)

There are three certainties in life: birth, death and annoying subway disruptions by the New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). Festered by the recent strike, the MTA’s unreliability and failure to communicate and alleviate disruptions is what may someday tempt me to leave New York. The F train, which is the main artery into [...]