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Mr. Jobs’s legacy will be ‘the blending of technology and poetry. It’s not about design per se; it’s the poetic aspect of the entire enterprise.’ James B. Stewart today writes about Steve Jobs’s passion for great design in a long article in the Business Day section of the NYTimes. If…
Read More »The Nashua Telegraph has an interesting article this morning about a former GOP Senate candidate’s plan to build a new media empire across the New Hampshire landscape – even dipping down into the Massachusetts end of the Merrimack Valley. The hot times of a New Hampshire presidential primary season may…
Read More »I picked this up from Cliff at Right Side. Virginia Postrel writing on bloomberg.com. A good read on Steve Jobs’ influence. For more of Cliff, go here.
Read More »Today’s NYTimes includes an article by Meredith Hoffman about Leymah Gbowee and the Nobel Peace Prize. Leymah heard the news while in New York promoting her book, “Mighty Be Our Powers.” Read the NYT report here, and get the paper if you want more.
Read More »Web photo by Jim Bishop, courtesy of Eastern Mennonite University. Winning the Nobel Peace Prize is a big deal. When I learned this morning that Leymah Gbowee of Liberia, now Ghana, had been awarded the Prize in a three-way share with two other women, the President of Liberia and a democracy…
Read More »NYTimes opinion writer David Brooks checks in today with one of his familiar big-picture think-abouts in column form. He’s being contrary today, blaming us collectively for a lack of imagination and daring. He claims we are in an innovation valley and that we better find some mountain climbers soon if…
Read More »Edgar Allen Poe Lowell, Massachusetts, late May to early June 1849 Daguerreotype On this day – October 7, 1849 – American author, poet, editor and literary critic – Boston-born Edgar Allan Poe died at age 40 in Baltimore. His tales include: “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Pit and the Pendulum” –…
Read More »bbc.com reports today that Leymah Gbowee is one of three women who this year will share the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize. Leymah was the 2011 UMass Lowell Greeley Scholar for Peace Studies and spent almost three weeks in residence here last April. She led a women’s movement to end a long civil…
Read More »Lowell Sun editor Chris Scott has a shocker of a story on the Lowell Sun “breaking news” site. According to Scott, the deal to be taken over by Steward Health Care LCC is dead! Instead Saints will be acquired by cross-town community health care “rival” Lowell General Hospital. The past few…
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