http://newyork.corante.com/ en-us basulto@gmail.com 2005-11-02T16:53:41-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/11/02/what_starbucks_can_teach_you_about_the_pace_of_technological_adoption.php Venture capitalist Pip Coburn has an interesting post on the Always On Network, where he writes that "watching traffic patterns at Starbucks can reveal all we need to know about the future pace of adoption of the ubiquitous wireless broadband... 51289@http://newyork.corante.com/ Big Thinkers 2005-11-02T16:53:41-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/10/24/donald_trump_and_his_verbal_billions.php On the surface, Donald Trump would appear to be worth several billion dollars - or at least, that's what he'd have you believe. In reality, his net worth may be significantly lower. Forbes recently pegged his net worth at... 51267@http://newyork.corante.com/ Big Thinkers 2005-10-24T12:27:53-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/10/08/how_new_york_could_become_a_hightech_utopia.php Last week, The New York Times ran a fascinating piece on Korea's high-tech utopia - a man-made island off the South Korean coast, about 40 miles from Seoul, that has embraced the notion of ubiquitous computing. This city of... 51226@http://newyork.corante.com/ Big Thinkers 2005-10-08T14:24:28-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/10/05/why_bloggers_are_like_drug_dealers.php After reading through Freakonomics, the wildly popular New York Times bestseller that has edged economics into the mainstream, I'm reminded of a saying attributed to Mark Twain, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." Well,... 51218@http://newyork.corante.com/ Big Thinkers 2005-10-05T10:02:38-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/10/03/steven_johnson_the_web_is_a_rainforest.php Brooklyn's Steven Berlin Johnson (the author of Everything Bad is Good for You) explains why the current version of the Web is more like a rainforest than a desert. The Web 2.0, supported by a thriving blog ecosystem, "does... 51205@http://newyork.corante.com/ Big Thinkers 2005-10-03T15:13:00-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/10/03/the_origami_home_office.php As part of a special guide to Manhattan home design, New York Magazine profiles origami cabinetry - "a now-you-see-the-laptop-now-you-don’t approach to the home office." Here's the inside scoop on this Upper West Side original: "Some find solace in media,... 51202@http://newyork.corante.com/ Big Thinkers 2005-10-03T07:51:53-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/09/30/donald_trump_start_teaching_business_courses_in_high_school.php On his blog, Donald Trump weighs in on the need for high school business courses (some of them, presumably, offered by Trump University online). According to The Donald, these high school business courses could go a long way in preparing... 51193@http://newyork.corante.com/ Big Thinkers 2005-09-30T07:26:29-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/09/28/is_the_internet_still_bad_for_democracy.php Eli Noam, a professor of finance and economics at Columbia University, has penned an interesting column in the October 2005 issue of Communications of the ACM: "Why the Internet is Bad for Democracy." Point-by-point, Noam deconstructs the principal arguments of... 51181@http://newyork.corante.com/ Big Thinkers 2005-09-28T07:00:00-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/09/27/frank_gehry_to_design_tiffanys_jewelry.php As seen on Gothamist: "Crain's reports that Frank Gehry will be designing jewelry and tabletop items for Tiffany & Co. This is a big deal, as it's the first new designer Tiffany has "hired" in twenty-five years (Paloma Picasso... 51177@http://newyork.corante.com/ Big Thinkers 2005-09-27T07:16:13-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/09/20/six_new_york_city_geniuses.php The New York Daily News reports that six New York City residents have received $500,000 "genius grants" from the MacArthur Foundation. Among the winners: "a Bronx activist fighting to revive Hunts Point, a Brooklyn writer who waxes lyrical about Boerum... 51154@http://newyork.corante.com/ Big Thinkers 2005-09-20T08:36:29-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/09/16/donald_trumps_ode_to_small_business.php Donald Trump says that, at heart, he's really a small business kind of guy. Forget everything you've heard about billion-dollar real estate deals and huge corporations. Small business is where it's at: "I have incredible respect for small business owners.... 51141@http://newyork.corante.com/ Big Thinkers 2005-09-16T07:54:16-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/09/09/tom_friedman_feature_in_fortune_magazine.php Love him or hate him, New York Times columnist Tom Friedman is still an intellectual rock star with an international following. Fortune magazine explains: "He dazzles crowds. He brews conventional wisdom. He charms CEOs. And he drives some people... 51120@http://newyork.corante.com/ Big Thinkers 2005-09-09T07:08:16-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/09/06/unlike_french_women_wall_street_bankers_do_get_fat.php My guess is that the weekend edition of The Wall Street Journal -- coming to a doorstep near you on the 17th of the month -- will be a bit weightier than most people are predicting. Consider an article... 51105@http://newyork.corante.com/ Big Thinkers 2005-09-06T14:46:50-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/08/29/billy_shakes_shakes_mortgages_out_of_trees.php Terence Bradford is a Citigroup banker by day, hip-hop performer by night. He goes by the stage name of Billy Shakes and is out to inform lower-income youth about the importance of understanding personal finance and planning for the financial... 51060@http://newyork.corante.com/ Big Thinkers 2005-08-29T07:06:08-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/08/23/the_data_and_information_guru.php Looking for some tips on how to present data for that upcoming PowerPoint presentation? Edward Tufte will be in Manhattan from September 27 - 29 to offer a one-day course on "Presenting Data and Information." The Boston Globe has... 51034@http://newyork.corante.com/ Big Thinkers 2005-08-23T07:32:08-05:00