As an antidote to my other posts this week, which have been a bit abstract and philosophical, I offer this little oasis of web-based whimsy: Joel A. Friesen Why you should continue to date me: a series of charts and graphs The author was attempting to convey a compelling case to a possible future ex-girlfriend […]
Archives for 2006
The potential of sense-making research
When you think you’re forging a new path through old ideas, it’s both annoying and exciting to find a whole bunch of people ahead of you. It’s annoying because it means your path wasn’t new at all (paths rarely are). It’s exciting because it means you can learn from smarter people, rather than hacking through […]
Can the same person sit in the same concert hall twice?
New York Times critic Anne Midgette muses on the idea that nobody hears the same performance in a concert hall (registration required), even if they are there on the same night. Says she: We think of concerts as fixed entities. In our age of mechanical reproduction, live performance has become — like a book, a […]
Rebelling against the bait and switch
Public radio listeners in Detroit have become openly cranky about one station’s decisions to radically rethink its daytime format. WDET-FM switched from a mix of local programming and music to more nationally syndicated talk programs in December. But a few who gave money during the prior pledge drive consider this change a bait and switch. […]
