In February 2014, Hoboken, Jersey City, and Weehawken announced plans to jointly launch a bicycle share system using bikes from Nextbike, a German company that operates bike share systems in Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Hungary, Latvia, New Zealand, Poland, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom. In June 2014, the Wall…
In 2010, Hoboken adopted a Complete Streets policy to make streets throughout the mile-square city meet federal and state standards for multi-modal street design and traffic control, ensure compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) guidelines on public rights-of-way, and balance the needs of pedestrians, bicyclists, transit users, and motorists. At a public meeting…
Jonathan Harris thinks the Internet is in the midst of a crisis: The Internet is causing mass homogenization of human identity, making us all look the same. We use the same tools and social networks, fitting into the same templates, designed by companies to maximize page views and profits. Most online experiences are made, like…
John Lanchester: There’s a romance attending on those jobs, the ones that keep things running all night long: it’s part of the fascination of big cities, the sense that something is always going on somewhere, even in the smallest of small hours. Bakers and police and nurses and cab drivers and market porters all belong…
Throughout the arrival and aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, I gathered photos posted on Twitter of the storm’s impact from above New York. The pictures paint a portrait of a deeply resilient city preparing, withstanding, and recovering from the devastating effects of an unprecedented storm. Fri 11/2, 2:28 pm – Getting Back to Work View of…
Those are the words of Miep Gies—who died yesterday at 100—when she gave Otto Frank his daughter’s diary on his return to Amsterdam from Auschwitz in 1945. His wife, Edith, and daughters Margot and Anne, died in Bergen-Belsen, but Anne’s diary is our window into her family’s life while hiding from the Nazis in the…
Steven Walling of ReadWriteWeb polled the site’s readers on the perceived value of technology pilots. A comment on the article suggested the generally small size of pilots makes them irrelevant to large organizations: Interaction among workers in a tiny subset of your organization isn’t a fair test. However, of the 84 responses to Steven’s poll,…
Steve Jobs, speaking at the D8 conference, explains how Apple chooses the technologies to include in their products: Apple is a company that doesn’t have the most resources of everybody in the world, and the way we’ve succeeded is by choosing what horses to ride really carefully – technically. We try to look for these…
In Grok the Gestalt of Teams, Diego Rodriguez says effective teams often have common approaches to work habits: An effective innovation team is composed of people who are really good at what they were put on earth to do, but also share a common way of getting things done in the world. Princeton WordNet defines…
Pete Blackshaw, executive vice president of NM Incite and author of “Satisfied Customers Tell Three Friends, Angry Customers Tell 3,000” (DoubleDay), explains why your website is still the most important digital asset you own amidst the rising drumbeat of social media: A smart website feeds and refreshes the brand stands. It anchors the brand database,…
Look around the next time you’re in a coffee shop or airport terminal. You’ll see laptops, cameras, and cell phones with nothing more than the manufacturer’s name as an identifier. By contrast, any device made by Apple has only the iconic, instantly recognizable apple with a bite taken out of the right side. Even though…
Joshua Becker on seeking a life of significance: Live a life worth copying. Live with character, integrity, and morality. Your life should look the same in private as it does in public. And while no one is perfect, just begin striving for a life of integrity. It will be noticed.
In a 2007 interview, Gothamist asked Michael Hertz, designer of the New York City Subway Map, “What is the one thing that you are most proud of about your 30-year-old design?”: That it IS a 30 year-old design. This kind of longevity is virtually unheard of in the transit business with the exception of London….
Dr. Richard Jackson, author of the book Urban Sprawl and Public Health, on the health value of good urban planning: At the annual meeting of the Congress of the New Urbanism in Atlanta, [Dr. Richard Jackson] informed a roomful of planners and architects, “You who create places that promote and protect health are probably doing…