For the past several years I've made a couple trips each year to NYC to see folks and to note trends in the internet business world. I got to visit a bunch of friends and tour the places they worked. Some places I visited and takeaways from each: Buzzfeed – I got to meet Matt Buchanan …
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GEL 2010 Conference trip to Dead Horse Bay
The highlight of the GEL Conference was an amazing trip to Dead Horse Bay, which is on the outskirts of Brooklyn towards JFK airport. You can read about the place on wikipedia and here's a google map of the place. Anthropologists Robin Nagle (her 2009 GEL talk was amazing) and Howard Warren took a group …
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GEL recap
Last week, I attended my third GEL conference in New York City. Like previous versions of this conference, it’s a day of talks from speakers that have a variety of stories to tell about “good experiences.” The diversity of the speakers’ backgrounds is the strength of the conference and this year didn’t disappoint. In a …
Cirrus SR20 crash in Manhattan
Philip Greenspun, owner of a Cirrus SR20 himself has a great post speculating on what happened in today’s crash in Manhattan. What many assume was terrorism or suicide might have just been a couple minor mistakes resulting in the bad crash.
A Whole Lotta Nothing 