the holiday season approaches, and with it, crazed consumerism tempered by a sagging economy. this is a piece for circuits/basics/personal tech about strategies for successfully shopping on black friday, cyber monday, twitter tuesday, renegade wednesday, and tropical drinks thursday.
nytimes: black friday calls for a strategy session, by marty katz.
a piece about the average joe attempting to upgrade to the biggest and baddest tv, only to find out that his components and cables no longer work together, the expenses rise, and in the end, the best upgrade is a return to the original setup.
nytimes.com: basics, by alan schwarz
while working on this piece, i mucked around with silhouetting. this wasn’t used for the final piece, but turned into an interesting experiment. mayhaps there will be more of this in the future.
malcolm gladwell has a new book coming out called, outliers: why some people succeed and some don’t, and the internet is already a-tizzle about it.
more important than mr. gladwell’s book, however, is that this is the final what’s online column. it’s been a great run, 3 years, 140 illustrations, and a whole lot of good times. i would like to take a moment to thank dan mitchell for his great writing over the years, also mickey, nick, james, phyllis and the rest of new york times bizday team for all their stellar work editing, art directing and general upstandingness.
fear not, i will still be working with the times, just this column is ending. stayed tuned to this blog for a best of (possibly a worst of as well). and to answer the question that hasn’t been asked, this week’s what’s online is NOT a self portrait, malcolm gladwell also has curly hair. once again, not a self portrait.
nytimes.com: what’s online, by dan mitchell
science is now capable of producing a diamond that is indistinguishable from one pulled from the ground. diamonds in fact aren’t that rare, but exceedingly tightly controlled, which gives them their value. the article talks about the various possibilities technologically, economically, and politically that could occur due to manufactured diamonds.
nytimes.com: what’s online, by dan mitchell
nytimes: letting your grad student go
a spot last week for the new york time’s education life section about parents letting their grad student child go. seems obvious enough, but these are parents who are still helping their kids get into grad school, going on interviews, etc. uh…
nytimes: letting your grad student go, by amanda m. fairbanks