Jake Berman makes better transit maps. I found this beautiful late-night subway service map of his on the New York City Subway Wikipedia article. It reminded me of the famous 1972 Massimo Vignelli map which hangs in my kitchen, but turns out it’s primarily influenced by the relatively obscure 1966 system map. That map is [...]
Posts on New York
Summer Remix
28 Jul 2008
A personal announcement: After more than four years immersed in all things web-, blog- and ecommerce-related at the 92nd Street Y (new look/season/brand launching Thursday)—a place I love and have had the privilege of contributing to while working alongside some truly amazing people—I’m moving on to another amazing place: Etsy. Specifically the product team. And [...]
Mixtape Blogging
29 Feb 2008
I posted some notes from last night’s Y event with Mos Def on the 92Y Blog. Turns out he’s not just for white people, though folks of all colors will love the new stuff he’s been working on with Madlib. It had Anthony DeCurtis nodding.
Mugging for the Camera
13 Feb 2008
The Y blog received a nice plug in MUG today. Given the number of performances, talks and events at the 92nd St. Y, you’d expect a blog about same to be compelling reading and viewing (lots of videos). And so it is.
Street Scrabble Training
11 Oct 2007
I didn’t want to admit it to myself before, but I’ve been in training for my street Scrabble debut in the northwest corner of Washington Square Park. Anagramming, stocking up on brain supplements, the works. Scrabulous on Facebook is wholly to blame. That and the movie Word Wars, which features Marlon Hill, my favorite Pan-Africanist [...]
Mining the New York Times Archives
19 Sep 2007
TimesSelect, the subscription pay-wall system that has enclosed premium content on The New York Times website for the last two years, expired at midnight last night. The gates have been torn open. Putting aside the liberated columnists, who I look forward to reading again, the truly great thing about TimesSelect was the access it granted [...]
Overheard at the NY Tech Meetup
05 Jun 2007
“Metadata is what you know. Data is what you’re looking for.” -David Weinberger, author, Everything is Miscellaneous “The Facebook guys are betting that the next fad or fun thing will be built on Facebook, not the internet.” -James Hong, co-founder, Hot or Not “I’ve been writing a blog comparing web 2.0 to hip-hop. The five [...]
