by Whitney | May 20, 2009 | Uncategorized
My project, The LD Podcast, is all about learning, and how we can help kids learn better and more effectively. This has meant I’ve done a lot of reading and research on subjects like attention and motivation- because if you can’t capture a kid’s attention, or help...
by Whitney | May 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
We were in DC the other day, and a movie in the Capitol Visitor’s Center reminded me about the Rural Electrification Project and bill passes by Congress in 1936 as part of the New Deal legislation under Roosevelt. While it turned out that as a Works Project...
by Whitney | May 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
Lenscrafters, owned by Italian eyewear company, Luxottica, now also owns Pearle Vision centers. This amounts to almost a monopoly in our local area for eyewear, especially when coupled with their famous one-hour service guarantee. Well, they used to work that way. I...
by Whitney | May 10, 2009 | Uncategorized
I think we all have proverbial Canaries in the Coal Mine- signs, harbingers of good tidings or doom, indicators of larger trends- things we look to or for to tell us what’s happening on a more macro level in the world. I certainly have my own- the things I look...
by Whitney | May 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
Chris Brogan has talked about cafe-shaped conversations, and how conversations between businesses and the public need to become a bit more intimate, like the kind of conversations you might have in a Parisian cafe. Having just come from a trip to Paris, Spain and...
by Whitney | Apr 15, 2009 | Uncategorized
I got this email from Comcast today: Dear Comcast Customer, We owe you a big apology. On Saturday, April 4, 2009 we experienced a significant disruption of our email service. While you may or may not have been affected, we want to explain what happened. The problem...
