I find it fascinating that I can say "New York is my favorite city!" and half the responses will say "No! New York is a terrible city because I like rural areas better than cities!" Now I will say, "Justin Timberlake is my favorite contemporary pop musician!" And people will say "Pop music sucks!" and I can be reminded why weblogs are evil.
But I digress. My intention, now that I've explained some of the reasoning behind my recurrent posts on New York City, is to list some of the other topics which tend to attract my attention, particularly on my list of daily links. I think it might be useful since many of these topics are ones that I don't address in lengthier posts. Feel free to point out if I've missed any of my own obsessions.
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Blogs, blogging, and all that kind of junk
New York, Manhattan, and all that kind of junk
the production and promotion of popular music
the coming world war over potable water
the fight against the theocratization of the United States
Prince, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, their peers, and the neo-soul artists they've influenced
the history of the personal computer software industry
social software applications and their attendant bubble
cool projects my friends are working on
examples of socially-responsible entrepreneurship
new urbanism success stories
innovations and trends in mass transit
usable large databases of public data
efforts to advance the political power of the hip hop nation
thong underwear as a wearable meme
advances in air travel customer experience
the underreported successes of Microsoft research
maps and cartography
freshdirect and the potential for web groceries in general
That's the list so far. What am I overlooking?
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