Month: March 2010

  • Collaborating with Pablo

    I’ve been using a project collaboration Web service called Teambox for several weeks. I was drawn to it, frankly, because it was free and seemed to meet my needs for a Web site relaunch project involving a committee of several people all in different cities. The Twitter-like design is intuitive for me. One night I…

  • A Pirate should take home Oscar booty

    I don’t do Hollywood as a blog topic, but here’s an exception. I do want Sandra Bullock to win an Oscar on Sunday. I really do. Image by fabbriciuse via Flickr Competing against Bullock for the best actress Oscar this year will be perennial favorite Meryl Streep, who won kudos for her portrayal of chef…

  • Traveling between Rockefellers and rural North Carolina byways

    The remarkable story of Nancy Sweezy, the woman who may have just saved pottery making in Seagrove, N.C. I had talked to her a couple of times, but knew little of her amazing life. The National Endowment of the Arts named her a “national treasure” in 2006. (Family photo via The New York Times)