3 Stories About Paying for News
The New York Times I was intrigued when The New York Times started their paywall. I thought the price was high, but I figured "well, I'll cross that bridge when I come to it." It's been almost two full months since they launched it and the thing is–I've never triggered it. I am a diligent consumer of news, including of The New York Times. I thought. Mostly I read their stories via Facebook, Twitter, and Google Reader. And I read it on a variety of different browsers. Not only an iPhone or iPad browser, but the browser inside the Reeder Read more…
Final Post on Creativity
I haven't read Eat Pray Love, but Elizabeth Gilbert is really compelling in this video about creativity and genius at a TED conference. Really worth your 18 minutes if you have them. http://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html
Creative Blogging Round Two: Arts and Entrepreneurship Edition
Last week's post on creativity was mostly about the personal side of creativity, talking about both engineers and artists. I want to touch on the economic side of creativity, and talk some ideas about what the Internet means for creativity in a city like Tacoma. The Internet is Really Really Great (for creativity) Consider this hypothetical, but very common, example of why the Internet is great for the arts and creativity: An artist wants to sell her art as greeting cards, posters, t-shirts, etc, to make some extra income. She can use the web as a virtually unlimited and virtually Read more…
Wright Park. Yesterday afternoon.
Gorgeous.
Good weekend! (Despite the rain)
It was a really fun weekend. Things started on Friday night with the Be the Spark event at the Dome. Saturday I had my commencement ceremony from the American Leadership Forum, a group I've been involved with for the last year. After that, we went out to the Lake to help my parents clear some brush and get the cabin ready for the summer. Of course, eventually the rain hit. We escaped it on Sunday and saw Bridesmaids (a pretty funny movie with only a few missteps) and then got some work done around the house after that. I'm glad Read more…
I am very happy to announce that I am running to keep my seat on the Metro Parks Tacoma board!
Ever since I was appointed to the Park Board in January 2010, I have loved my work with the park district. The quality parks we have are essential to our high quality of life, but during hard economic times even more so, when people are looking for fun activities that are close to home. Making this announcement on my blog is somewhat fitting, since it was the park system that made me want to start blogging back in 2005. During that year Mary, my dad, and I visited every single Metro Parks facility–every playground, every beach, every ball field. It Read more…
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