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Tuesday – 11/1/2016

Helped Karen pack up car. She is off to Griffin Museum. Then to hospital for blood tests by 8am. Spent morning at library working on Husdon Creative. Afternoon in office also working on H-C. Walked down to Promenade for sunset K. Returned at 7

Monday – 10/31/2016

UTM – meeting with two Swedish guys, Fredrik Florberg and Niclas Fjälltoft.

Spent over four hours in discussion. Fredrik really liked the simplicity and robustness of the product. He is envisioning how to implement it in the healthcare sector in Sweden.

Lunch at Wunderbar.

Dinner with Dave Drake at New York Restaurant in Catskill.

borrowed from Google Earth

Saturday – 10/29/2016

After breakfast, went to farmer’s market. Then walked back and stopped to look at Lynn Davis’s series on Warren St. taken 20 yrs ago. Very well displayed at Mumford.

Paul Gennis and Janet Moline, friends of Harvey and Betsy, showed up in gallery. Sat and talked for a bit. Then Emily Chameides and Michael showed up with a rather bubbly young women known to them from Poughkeepsie who is visiting from her home country Haiti.

James Baldwin’s America Workshop Final Panel
6 – 8:15pm. Full house in Community Room

See notebook for notes.

http://hudsonarealibrary.org/2016/10/final-focus-on-baldwin/

Panel participants include:

Donna Ford-Grover, Bard professor in 19th – 20th century American Literature
Wesley Brown – Literature professor at Bard College at Simon’s Rock
Lisa Arrastia – Lecturer in Writing and Critical Inquiry at SUNY Albany
Kaya Weidman – co-founder & co-director of Kite’s Nest, co-founder of WGXC 90.7-FM

Friday – 10/28/2016

Leftover snow despite rain most of the night.
Mtg w UTM. Worked on UTM collaterals.

Drinks and sides with Dave Drake at Rive Gauche, Athens, NY

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Thursday – 10/27/2016

Second day back after road trip. Breakfast at Bob’s, then shopping at Price Chopper. Cleaning out car. It is snowing out!

Meeting at HAL – discuss new branding with David Murphy, Emily Chameides, and Brenda Shufelt.

Worked on photos from trip and UTM matters.

Saturday – 9/24/2016 – Fluff Festival – Somerville, MA

Cambridge Weekend 0924-25/2016, Fluff Festival Sommervile MA

Thursday – 9/22/2016 – NYC

Art Jaunt – NYC

New Museum

A big exhibition of collections.

NYC and Brooklyn 09222016

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E-Books Flatline; Books (Paper) Return Like Zombies

As the Web was becoming ubiquitous in the early haze of the 21st century the wonders of Google search displaced Altavista and other engines in the search wars. Web wags declared that the age of books, actually all paper-based media, to be over. The Web would quickly provide universal access to all of human knowledge on your computer. This even before the iPhone and Android brought the Internet to our hand and thumbs. Amazon and Apple launched their tablet reading devices, Kindle and iPad. Others followed. The numbers are truly amazing. Over 2 billion tablet computers were sold between 2010 and today. The sale of e-books rose enormously.

On the way to the funeral books proved to be the zombies of the paper media world. Newspapers and magazines have continued to decline. Continue reading →