Archives for May 2012

Great progress on one of my favorite places, @GovernorsIsland. http://nyti.ms/JApJdx

Water, electricity, and a hammock grove — who could ask for anything more?

Jon Hamm! Mick Jagger! Who knew they were so funny @SNL?

Reminded me too of my almost-appearance on 10K Pyramid, back in the day.  I’m sure they whacked me when I used the word “mote” for “moat” and cited Tennyson in […]

First interesting #NYTBR in ages…especially @JohnSchwartz on Ready Player One audiobook!

Which I just happened to finish a few weeks ago, and loved from beginning to end.  I nearly spilled my breakfast coffee this morning reading Schwartz’s article, as I assumed […]

Somewhere, i still have NBC’s invitation to the Donna Summers “Last Dance” party at SuperBowl XXX??? when they lost the broadcast rights…was it Sun Devil Stadium in 1995? Anybody else there with me for the first superbowl.com??

Reconstituting the Ivy League in the 21st century? Nice shoutout to Fathom from Tamar Lewin @NYT. #highered

Today’s NYT coverage of the Harvard/MIT announcement. I am remembering a 2001 0r 2002 interview with a Yale student newspaper on whether Fathom was a success or failure. What year […]

I just love being right. Early, yes, but that’s the thing about pioneering. Timing is everything. Fathom showed the way. #highered #macaulay

Harvard, MIT Announce Online Learning Partnership   By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass. May 2, 2012 (AP)   Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have joined forces to […]