7:34 am
Went to gym alone. Karen is mending her ankle.
After breakfast spent time working on a mock up of a website for the Greenport Historical Society. ghs.markorton.com. They haven’t asked for one but I will propose it to them as my contribution. Continue reading
Went to breakfast at Bob’s early. The Mayor, Hallenbeck, was there. Then went to Price Chopper – the place was about as empty as can remember.
Left by melting snow in gutter in front of housr
The living room will go away shortly. Displaced by DOG
Went to gym at 7:30 am. Hope to get this into a routine. More work on tennis exercises.
Returned and worked on UTM and library projects. Talked with Jan about UTM plans for an hour. He remains concerned that David and Seth don’t really grasp the situation and opportunity they are in.
6:40 am Snow shower over night. 19 degrees this morning.
UTM work in the morning. Lengthy call with Jan. Planning for next six months or so. He told me that he is negotiating a contract with David to work full time and be CEO. Told him that I am supportive though dubious of getting David and Seth to march in a straight line or follow any line. Also told him that I want to take over the CMH and other customer operations so he can focus on investors. We developed a good beginning of an outline. Promised to get him a draft done today si that we can talk further about it tomorrow. Continue reading
5:32 pm
Worked on UTM contracts and other matters. Also trimmed down the marketing list for DOG. Regular weekly UTM meetings mid day. Worked in a few moments to start drafting overview piece for the library.
Spent the bulk of the day at the Economy conference at the Scandanavia House 38 Park Ave. Two very good panels, one on values in economics and the second on the Internet at economics. The discussions by Greta Brochman (U. Olso) on the Nordic welfare model was great. Richard Sennett who I remember from his 974 book Hidden Injuries of Class gave a very striking description of the career environment of today’s economy. Must work on this. Presentation by Shoshanna Zuboff (Harvard B School) was flashy but actually also substantive. Advocacy capitalism vs surveillance capitalism, this latter is winning. Google most obvious example.
Picked up Karen on Upper West side and returned to Hudson by 6 pm or so.
6:12 pm
Heard full story from Ed and Meredith about the altercation with Emma Xu and the resulting arrest. She charged up the stairs at Ed and grabbed him around the legs. In the ensuing struggle he grabbed her by the neck to get her off. She then retreated and called the cops. They took one look at the bruise on her neck and arrested Ed. Thus beginning almost 24 hrs in a Philly jail.
Big discussions of finding a good criminal lawyer in Philly. Next door neighbors came over to help out. They made suggestions of contacts. Karen, Meredith and Ed went to Philly to lock up the apartment and take pictures of the hallway where the fracas took place. Ed had to stay at a distance since he is under a restraining order. While there Meredith found a key to Ed’s apartment on a NIMH bangle in the closet. Ed’ thinks that Emma came in and planted it over night while the apartment was unlocked.
They also met the landlord, a Nigerian fellow who owns a bunch of apartment houses and a copy center. He seems to be on Ed’s side based on his earlier dealings with Xu. She hasn’t paid her rent and has been a pain in the rear. He will move to evict her.
I went into NYC for my economics conference, What’s Wrong with the Economy – and Economics sponsored by the New york Review of Books and held at Scandinavia House, 38 Park Ave.
What a great conference.
Can’t figure out why this image is upside down??? I’ve lost interest in figuring it out.
Met with Hudson Business Coalition people about marketing ideas for Hudson. Provided strategic orientation to the meeting. Sherry Jo Williams, Russ Gibson. Dave Colby from the Chamber and Branda ?? from HBC popped in. Good meeting. Done in 50 minutes.
Talked with Matt Almeida and Anita Harris in the afternoon.
Joe Keenan about the library marketing project. He will work on crowd funder and I will work on overall story. Continue reading
6:05 PM
Went early to go to Apple Store to pick up new iPad Air2. Then to UAlbany. Led discussion because Jan was attending an executive event at the Business School.
Left promptly at 1:30 to return to meet with Miranda Barry who is interested in the library. Gwen Gould also attended. Met at Cafe le Perche. Miranda is very dynamic, experienced educational media person. Long time with Sesame Street.Now with a new venture StarWalk Kids Media. She is very interested in participating in program development.
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3:28 pm
Met with Emily Chameides at the library in the morning. First time we had spoken at length since December. Reiterated to her the need to work on long term objectives.
HAL Board of Directors meeting and Annual Meeting at 5:15pm. Here is my report: Continue reading