Archive for August, 2007

A Time To Plug
Thursday, August 30th, 2007

It’s been quite a ride to get here, to this point in cyber-reality. I’ll spare you the soppy Grateful Dead-quoting high-school-yearbook blather, but I will say that one of the most rewarding parts of stumbling into this whole blog business has been the people I’ve met along the way. Two of whom happen to have […]

Evolution
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

It’s an idyllic Saturday afternoon and I’m sprawled on a wicker chaise in Westchester, having tagged along with a friend on house-sitting detail. It’s easy to get nostalgic for an actual house — a foreign novelty after months spent condensing your existence into a New York-scaled diorama. We shrink and compartmentalize to fit inside apartment […]

Gotta Move With The Times
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

Apologies for the impromptu hiatus - I’ve been plugging away on the newest project, slogging through the primordial cyber-ooze of HTML and various web lexicon. As reported here and here and here, Freakonomics.com has been revamped, republished and incorporated into the New York Times web site, making us an official NYTimes.com blog (and me an […]