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Is Foursquare “Past Twitter”–and Facebook and email and…?

Two weeks ago or so, I clipped an arti­cle from the NY Times that I saved for reflec­tion because it records a phe­nom­e­non of tech­no­log­i­cal and pop cul­ture his­to­ry in the mak­ing. A good sum­ma­ry of Brad Stone’s arti­cle “Old Fogies by Their 20’s” is the sto­ry’s sub­head: “Gen­er­a­tion gaps span just a few years, E‑mailers […]

When a talk became a roundtable…

Last Sat­ur­day, I shared an event with my good her­mani­ka (sis­ter, in Ladi­no), Kath­leen Alcalá, at Book Woman Book­store in Austin. Before we began, there was time to browse the shelves and exhibits. The com­fort­able atmos­phere and good vibes led me, as first speak­er, to turn the chairs, set up in rows, into a circle […]