Boston, Day 3; Eavesdropping, Neat Receipts, and Climbing

Today was spent mostly tying up loose ends and getting settled in work-wise. I spent a good part of the day in Harvard Square.  After realizing that all of the coffee shops were probably completely packed, I settled on a Starbucks since I’ve got tmobile account. This led to overhearing “ketamine, DXM and PCP” in a conversation between a guy and a girl who appeared to be of college age.  It...

Boston: The First 36 Hours

I’ve been here less than 36 hours and am already having a phenomenal time. Last night, after a quick nap, I met up with Wayne Sutton (@waynesutton) and Chris Owens (@ocell). If you’re in online marketing, especially social media, and you don’t know Wayne Sutton, get familiar with him.  He not only gets it, he also puts the work into it.  If someone were to hire him to let him loose on the social...

Leaving for Boston on Saturday

So, I’m leaving for Boston on Saturday morning.  I expect to get in to my new place in East Cambridge pretty late at night. Sunday, I’ll be tooling around, finding coffee shops, getting familiar with the areas, and perhaps buying some running shoes to add another option for fitness.  I was hoping to get out on the bike, but it looks like it’s going to rain.  Which isn’t necessarily a bad...

The “Summer of Love” for Communications Technology?

A very good friend of mine recently brought up the idea of a communications shift like we’re having now with Twitter, Plurk, etc, and related it to the Summer of Love. Obviously, there are significant differences, but I don’t think that the fundamental idea is too far off. Here’s my response to him: I definitely think there’s something big going on right now that’s growing unusually...