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2007

• 10/28/07 TMI

  TMI By Teresa A. Martin Oh, the beauty of the web, this 24x7 great library in the sky. This fount of instant access to data on any and everything. This source of information, a plethora of information, a mind-boggling overwhelming often-unsubstantiated well of everything about anyt...

• 10/27/07 Do You Skype?

  Do You Skype? By Teresa A. Martin I've been Out & About to a lot of different events in the past few weeks. STEM education summits. Cape demographic summits. It seems that summits are all the rage right about now. It's an interesting trend. It was all the more interesting b...

• 10/13/07 To Life

  To Life By Teresa A. Martin This past weekend I was Out & About to a wedding up in Brookline. Weddings are lovely things and can even make a cynic like me feel a sense of hope and belief in humankind. This one involved two families who are deeply involved in traditional Jewish ...

• 10/05/07 The Greatest Legacy

  The Greatest Legacy By Teresa A. Martin NASA was on my radar screen this week, in part from reading CNET's coverage of 50 years in space. I linked to those articles and photo-stories in Of Additional Interest at the end of this newsletter, if you'd like to explore them too. My r...

• 09/28/07 Linked

  Linked By Teresa A. Martin Every few days one of these messages pops into my inbox. No, no, I'm not talking about offers of enhanced lovemaking or free money from Dr. Istaljfizh of Nigeria! I'm talking about an invitation to join the network. The network in question is the Linkedin...

• 09/21/07 New Old Wonders

  Out & About...New Old Wonders By Teresa A. Martin When is it that you start to feel old? I'm starting to think it is when your kids marvel at technologies they've never seen ... but that were once part of your daily world. This week, I've been Out & Abou...

• 09/14/07 One Ringy Dingy

  One Ringy Dingy By Teresa A. Martin Of all the many electronic devices in our world, the one that I think has brought and will continue to bring the greatest transformation is the humble - and not so simple - cell phone. This week Verizon went to court to try to stop the FCC's rul...

• 09/07/07 L'Affair des poignees d'amour

  Out & About...L'Affair des poignees d'amour By Teresa A. Martin There are some things I never really wanted to think about. Like the French president Nicolas Sarkozy' s poignees d'amour. That is, the love handles around his middle. Ewww! Well apparently the...

• 08/31/07 Brand Babble

  Brand Babble By Teresa A. Martin OK, I keep bumping into BRAND this week. If you haven't heard, I'm a big believer in the power of brand - it is the one way we can set ourselves apart in the ever-expanding world. But brand isn't a new concept. It has always been around. We just ha...

• 08/24/07 Utopian Sustainability

  Utopian Sustainbility By Teresa A. Martin I was Out & About this week to the beautiful mountains and Great Lake shoreline of Vermont. It was a quick trip, but much needed. Along the way I heard the word "sustainable' used about a zillion times. Sustainable is very popular in...

• 08/18/07 Something Fishy

  Something Fishy By Teresa A. Martin So in my wandering Out & About lately, I seem to be on a bit of a fish and marine theme. It's awfully hard to understand the seas. They cover our planet, they feed us, they create commerce ... but our unaided human form can't enter their de...

• 08/10/07 Virtually Yours

  Virtually Yours By Teresa A. Martin Every day we move into a world that is increasingly virtual, one in which you and I can work together without physically being in the same place at the same time. This very cool. It has the potential to increase both productivity and the q...

• 08/03/07 Half Open Spectrum

  Half Open Spectrum By Teresa A. Martin Is the cup half empty or half full? In January, the US Government will auction off a new block of wireless spectrum. This 700 MHz block has, until now, been used for analog TV. Congress has said that by February 2009 all television will be di...

• 07/27/07 Web 2.0

  2.0 By Teresa A. Martin This week a recurring theme was the phrase "Web 2.0." It is a term that seems to be bandied about a lot, usually with some uncertainty. So, I decided to plunge into one of the archetypical Web 2.0 applications and take The Packet along on the ride. ...

• 07/20/07 Real Magic

  Out & About...Real Magic By Teresa A. Martin Harry Potter the movie and Harry Potter the book are appearing one after the other this month. I saw the movie and tonight at midnight I'll join the queue (ok, the somewhat geeky queue, but hey, it's fun!) to pick up...

• 07/13/07 Out & About...Tides of Change

  Out & About...Tides of Change By Teresa A. Martin While I was Out & About this week, I decided to take a walk along the beachfront. I was thinking about things and before I knew it, the walk had become a very long stroll. Unfortunately, I forget to notice...

• 07/06/07 Always On?

  Out & About...Always On? By Teresa A. Martin After several weeks of postcard-perfect weather we were due, weren't we? This week we had wind and thunder and lighting and all those great performances of the sky god. And someplace in there on Thursday mornin...

• 06/29/07 In a Business State of Mind

  Out & About...In a Business State of Mind By Teresa A. Martin Last week I was Out & About to Suffolk University's breakfast, featuring Sen. Therese Murray. The group was surprisingly subdued with question time left unfilled. But there was one moment that cr...

• 06/22/07 Scrabble Anyone?

  Out & About...Scrabble Anyone? By Teresa A. Martin This week I've escaped the stress of the real world around me by diving into an alternative overnight existence of online Scrabble. As you might guess, I'm sort of a word geek. It's that writer thing, I guess...

• 06/15/07 Red Sox in Many Media ... Or, Convergence Calls

  Out & About...Red Sox in Many Media ... Or, Convergence Calls By Teresa A. Martin The Red Sox won tonight, this first night that we actually have television reception in years and years. The cable TV package entered our world because I have a nine-year-old ...

• 06/08/07 Ubiquitious Wireless

  Out & About...Ubiquitious Wireless By Teresa A. Martin Wireless access may not be ubiquitous (yet!) but talk about it sure is. This week I was Out & About to the New England Muni Wireless Conference that was held at the Newton Marriott. Both CCTC member Dan Gallagher and I wer...

• 06/01/07 Quilted Commerce

  Out & About...Quilted Commerce By Teresa A. Martin It all started with a harmless request: Could I help find a replacement quilt? The quilt in question was old, antique, vintage. I love vintage objects. I love fabric. Of course I couldn't say no! Several yea...

• 05/25/07 Memorial Memories

  Out & About...Memorial Memories By Teresa A. Martin Memorial Day is for remembering. Which got me thinking about how and what it is we remember, and how technology plays a role in all of this. You see, from the earliest days of humanity, the ability to rem...

• 05/18/07 Click, Snap, Share

  Out & About...Click, snap, share By Teresa A. Martin Sharing is good, right? At least that's what we all learned in kindergarten. It isn't always easy, though. And sometimes it's the logistics of doing sharing that get in our way. One of the things the wo...

• 05/11/07 Debunking Database Myths

  Out & About...Debunking Database Myths By Teresa A. Martin Frequent readers know that topics often cluster together in my world. This month databases seem to be a recurring theme. I love databases because I have lots of bits and pieces of information in my l...

• 05/04/07 Medical Records Transformed

  Medical Records Transformed By Teresa A. Martin Electronic Medical Records have been around in one form or another for dozens of years. Back in the late 1980s I worked on documentation for a product in this category - those attempts, while hinting at the promise, were pretty klunky...

• 04/27/07 Searching for the Good

  Searching for the Good By Teresa A. Martin How do you merge business and good works? How do you do good by doing well? These are questions that a subset of entrepreneurs have debated and explored for years. Last week a CCTC member pointed me to one more example of this exploration, a company called GoodSearch, http://www....

• 04/20/07 Teleradiology and Beyond

  Teleradiology and Beyond By Teresa A. Martin I spent much of my Out & About time this week in the hallowed halls of medicine. Waiting. In waiting rooms. This provided ample time to observe the activity and think about the ways the medical business has gone digital. It all...

• 04/14/07 Love Fest

  Love Fest By Teresa A. Martin It feels like I was Out & About over every square inch of the Cape this week. Lots of regional road time and lots of regional interactions. And throughout it all, there was a dual reminder of two things: first, nothing replaces personal interac...

• 04/06/07 Insults & Commonsense

  Insults & Commonsense By Teresa A. Martin This week’s tempest in a teapot involved YouTube, a poster named paddidda and the government of Thailand. It seems that in Thailand, mocking or in any way defacing an image of 80-year old King Bhumibol Adulyadej or other member...

• 03/30/07 Lesson in Time & Tech Management

  Out & About...Lesson in Time & Tech Management Maybe I should have called this column "How I Missed My Mac." That's because I was out and about all week without my usual white appendage attached firmly at my side. Mac was out sick. If you know me, you probably can’t picture me without my digital sidekick, but there I was - riding solo. I joke a lot about having the machine ...

• 03/23/07 Networking of the Social Kind

  Networking of the Social Kind By Teresa A. Martin We’ve been having some interesting conversations about the nature of business and professional community and how to make it work on many levels. That discussion has only just begun and, as always, our goal is to try and create ...

• 03/15/07 You Waved

  You Waved! By Teresa A. Martin My, my, my, I didn’t have go Out & About anywhere to figure out that I touched a nerve last week! If you remember, I wrote about the Cape Cod Young Professionals and the notion that an important part of changing the perception of our regi...

• 03/09/07 Stand Up and Wave

  Stand up and wave By Teresa A. Martin I was Out & About this week to a networking event that belies one of the myths of Cape Cod. Yes Virginia, there is a vibrant professional community comprised of people who aren’t planning on retiring any time soon! One evening last ...

• 03/02/07 The Slow Wheels of Revolution

  The Slow Wheels of Revolution By Teresa A. Martin After this First Friday breakfast ended, I stayed at Mass Maritime to go Out & About on a tour of the academy’s training ship, the Enterprise. Originally built as a cargo ship in 1967, this freighter features more stairs a...

• 02/23/07 Elephants

  Elephants By Teresa A. Martin I’ve been Out&About all over the region this week. I don’t know if it is February malaise, the grey skies, or the feeling of winter lingering but there seemed to be a lot of droopiness in the air. And I kept hearing the rumbles of the e...

• 02/16/07 Wicked Cool

  Wicked Cool By Teresa A. Martin Last week, just before our annual dinner, we hosted the second Jr Tech Expo. Just a short flight up the stairs from the networking and keynote was our very own future. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education is a hot topic these...

• 02/09/07 Playing to the Future

  Playing to the Future By Teresa A. Martin Frank Moss, director of the MIT Media Lab and keynoter at this week’s CCTC Annual Meeting & Dinner, showed lots of wonderful projects at this past Thursday’s event but what caught my imagination more than almost anything els...

• 02/02/07 Bons Mots

  Bons Mots By Teresa A. Martin Maybe it was the Paris global warming report news (grim) or maybe it was the sound of the electric meter going into warp speed as the temperatures plunged this week, but I felt especially open to the concept of alternative energy. It would seem I&rsq...

• 01/26/07 Deval's Podcast

  Deval's Podcast By Teresa A. Martin Newly elected governor Deval Patrick has posted his first podcast. His staff says this isn’t a one-time deal; as part of his communications plan he’ll be doing a weekly 4-5 minute podcast. The podcasts are available at the Mass.gov site....

• 01/19/07 Time Travel

  Time Travel By Teresa A. Martin I love history and history’s stories and all the threads of the past, and that’s why I so enjoyed being Out & About in virtual time travel this week. One of the great benefits of our online world is the resurrection of musty old doc...

• 01/12/07 iBuzz

  iBuzz By Teresa A. Martin Two events this week grabbed my interest and I wish I’d been Out & About at either of them, but at least we can all live vicariously online! CES, the annual Consumer Electronics Show, has been running this week in Las Vegas. This is biggest, co...

• 01/05/07 Online Identity

  Online Identity By Teresa A. Martin Those of you have seen me lately know that my new nickname seems to have become ‘gimpy’ – let’s just say that my middle name is certainly not Grace and that I am now very careful to take stairs only one step at a time. ...

• 01/01/07 2007

  Here are the Out & About columns for 2007

2006

• 12/22/06 'Tis the Season

  'Tis the Season By Teresa A. Martin 'Tis the season. Yes, 'tis the season to reflect. Celebrate. Remember. Feel sorrow. Feel joy. Whatever holiday you embrace, may you embrace it well! Since the dawn of time, we've been embracing this time of year as a mystery of our world. The ...

• 12/15/06 Participatory Power

  Participatory Power By Teresa A. Martin As frequent readers know, words sometimes pass through my world with great frequency and I’ve learned to pay attention to them as they do. In the past two weeks “participatory” has been showing up with noticeable repetition. ...

• 12/08/06 Lost

  Lost By Teresa A. Martin Do you ever have something in the news that you follow almost against your will, that you don’t really want to know the ending to but you can’t pull always because you always hope that somehow it might end up happy? Me too. But it doesn&rsq...

• 12/01/06 Tech Transfer Trigger

  Tech Transfer Trigger By Teresa A. Martin When I’m out and about somewhere and people are chatting about a topic as it were an old friend and I’m clueless ... well, that’s sure sign research girl is going to swing into action. And that’s what happened this we...

• 11/24/06 Giving Thanks for Wonder

  Giving Thanks for Wonder By Teresa A. Martin As I type this, the turkey carcass lies processed into stock, the last bit of coconut custard pie wiped off the fork, and the holiday buying season officially kicked off. Did it feel like Thanksgiving to you? It didn’t to me, eit...

• 11/17/06 Systems Integration

  Systems Integration By Teresa A. Martin This week I was Out & About to the Regional Innovation Summit at MIT, an event that looked at New England as a competitive region, with a focus on the innovation economy and technology transfer as part of the engine of growth. It was pret...

• 11/10/06 Kodachrome

  Kodachrome By Teresa A. Martin You may have spotted me Out & About the past week or so with new digital camera in tow. This isn’t my first digital camera, of course, but it is my first that has really crossed the line to leave behind some of the user interface assumptions ...

• 11/05/06 Vote Early and Often

  Vote Early and Often By Teresa A. Martin Barry Levinson’s Wag the Dog left me with a sort of squirmy feeling inside. The movie was a black comedy that mated a frustrated and fading Hollywood producer to a political machine in need of driving public opinion for a president i...

• 10/27/06 Happy Five

  Happy Five By Teresa A. Martin Quick Quiz! It’s a cultural icon. It’s the size of a deck of cards and always shrinking. And it turned an industry on its head. That’s right, it’s Apple’s iPod and it’s a whopping five years old this week. It&...

• 10/20/06 Stop Before I Shop

  Stop before I shop By Teresa A. Martin Yup, I’ll admit I don’t exactly have a life. Which is why I find myself drawn again and again to Ebay. I have been fascinated with EBay since its inception. It’s always reminded me of my favorite childhood Saturday morning ...

• 10/13/06 You(Tube) to Many

  You(Tube) to Many By Teresa A. Martin Back in the ancient days of the late twentieth century, Don Peppers and Martha Rogers wrote a book called the One to One Future. It talked about the end of mass marketing and of the role that relationships would play in the new marketplace. The...

• 10/06/06 The Literacy Project

  The Literacy Project By Teresa A. Martin This week the Googleplex released its newest effort focused on ... literacy. That’s right, good ole basic reading. The target market? Anyone “interested in reading and education.” The newest offering, at http://www.g o...

• 09/29/06 We Hold These Truths

  Out & About ... We Hold These Truths By Teresa A. Martin Sometimes there are days when you just need to take a deep breath and look at yourself. And where you are. And where the world is around you. Between watching the fur fly and the fallout from dubious decisions at the top of HP’s power structure to the sens...

• 09/22/06 School Tech Too

  Out & About ... School Tech Too By Teresa A. Martin Last week we paid a virtual visit to Philadelphia and the Microsoft High School there. This week it only seemed fair to take a real visit here on the Cape. While we might not have a Microsoft High School, we do have one of Microsoft’s own elite group of educat...

• 09/16/06 MHS?

  Out & About ... MHS? By Teresa A. Martin Last week an interesting new concept school opened up in Philadelphia. The School of the Future, designed by Microsoft, is taking a new look at learning. The West Philly school has no textbooks. No paper. No #2 lead. In a grand social experiment, this school is assigning students ...

• 09/08/06 LEEDing Technology

  Out & About ... LEEDing Technology By Teresa A. Martin This afternoon I tucked myself under a big white tent on the Cape Cod Community College campus for the dedication and “cable cutting” of the brand spanking new Lyndon P. Lorusso Applied Technology Building. The building may be housing academic technolo...

• 09/01/06 A VERY Mobile Office

  Out & About ... A VERY Mobile Office By Teresa A. Martin So, here we are, me and a couple of other CCTC members and we are carpooling our way back from a meeting in Westboro. The morning session has been presentations and discussions around issues and models of broadband access...

• 08/25/06 Techno Love

  Out & About...Techno Love By Teresa A. Martin For some time now, I’ve been watching the metamorphosis of one of the worlds oldest industries as it enters the online era. I’m talking about matchmaking and love seeking, surely one of the base drivers...

• 08/18/06 Portable Pitfires

  Out & About...Portable Pitfires By Teresa A. Martin The past week’s laptops-flambé was a reminder again that not all technology is sexy. Dell recalled some 4.1 million batteries and we were all reminded again that some of the most important ele...

• 08/11/06 Unwired is Up

  Out & About...Unwired is Up By Teresa A. Martin The Village is Unwired. Ten months after its official development began, the first pilot project in Orleans is up and running. I was out and about in the wee hours of the night this week, pulling my car over ...

• 08/04/06 The Connected Studio

  Out & About...The Connected Studio By Teresa A. Martin Is art a solitary pursuit? I traveled to Boston this week to get a glimpse into a world that says art is most definitely collaboration, a world where some powerful projects are being created, where express...

• 07/28/06 DOPA-ey

  Out & About...DOPA-ey By Teresa A. Martin FUD is amongst us. That’s Fear, Uncertainly, and their cousin Doubt. And once again we see proof that this trio is a master of legislative acumen. I’m referring to, of course, to the piece of legislatio...

• 07/21/06 Baseball, Part 2

  Out & About...Baseball, Part 2 By Teresa A. Martin Baseball has been on my brain a lot. Perhaps it was hearing our July speaker show the way the baseball industry is using technology tools to improve player development. Or maybe it’s just because, lik...

• 07/14/06 Beanies Meet the Sims

  Out & About...Beanies meet the Sims By Teresa A. Martin This week we’re going out and about into the web, into the land of the Webkinz. Webkinz, for those of you have haven’t met them, are stuffed critters with an online life. The story might b...

• 07/07/06 In the Ballpark

  Out & About...In the Ballpark By Teresa A. Martin The "in game" technology is tried and true. No virtual swords, no magic cloaks, and no three-pieces of gold! Just a ball and bat and glove that are pretty darn similar to those in use a 128 years ago ...

• 06/30/06 Taming a Tiger?

  Taming a Tiger? By Teresa A. Martin Can technology be legislated? I’m not sure it can, but the US Congress is sure trying. There was a lot of legislative activity this week – much of it of resembling the "sound and fury signifying nothing" variety. All ...

• 06/23/06 Together We Will Stand

  Together we will stand By Teresa A. Martin This week I was out and about to the Open Cape Summit. It was held this past Thursday at the Cape Cod Community College and was sponsored by The Cape Cod Economic Development Council, The Cape Cod Five Charitable Foundation, MECNet, Atrion...

• 06/16/06 Never Too Old to Blog

  Never Too Old to Blog By Teresa A. Martin When you think about blogs, you tend to think about hormone filled teens or angst filled college students or passionate political partisans ... but it turns out that an awful lot of bloggers out there fall into the category of elder-blogger...

• 06/09/06 Flexing It

  Flexing It By Teresa A. Martin Have you ever seen a bus kneel? That’s what the Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority calls the technology that lets the new Outer Cape Flex busses dip gracefully low to the ground to enable wheel chair and disabled access. This week I was Out ...

• 06/02/06 Nonlinear Ride

  Nonlinear Ride By Teresa A. Martin It is always interesting to me how certain ideas seem to cluster. For example, in the past week I’ve had multiple conversations – unrelated to each other – with very different groups of people about the same topic. I wasn’t...

• 05/26/06 Committee Appointed to Study Memorial Day Formation

  Committee Appointed to Study Memorial Day Formation By Teresa A. Martin Hey, Happy Memorial Day! I always wonder if it is appropriate to append “happy” to something that should be serious and sober, don’t you? Memorial Day is for us to remember those who have s...

• 05/19/06 Lights On

  Lights On By Teresa A. Martin Last fall we announced plans to develop a pilot project in Orleans, to create a public zone of free wireless broadband access. Well, the lights are about to turned on. In case you’ve not been following the story, let me recap. During each era ...

• 05/12/06 SWEET

  SWEET By Teresa A. Martin This week I was out and about to Fall River, where I was invited to the end-of-year presentation by a an amazing group of young women, high school students who developed engineering solutions at companies like Texas Instruments and Invensys. Six teams ...

• 05/05/06 Themes and Threads

  Out & About... Themes and Threads By Teresa A. Martin I’ve been out and about a lot this week (and at $3+ a gallon I don’t even want to think about that too closely!) Some of the events were seemingly unrelated, but I’ve always noticed that...

• 04/28/06 Net Results

  Out & About...Net Results By Teresa A. Martin This week, the notion of Net neutrality failed to move forward in the US House of Representatives. The Net neutrality amendment, which was before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, had backing from software ...

• 04/21/06 One-Two Wireless Punch

  One-Two Wireless Punch By Teresa A. Martin Wireless has become quite the buzzword lately. And, like a lot of buzzwords it seems to have picked up some extra fuzz around the edges. Here on the Cape we are on the leading edge of deploying two complementary pieces of the broadband ...

• 04/14/06 Orphan Works

  Orphan Works By Teresa A. Martin It is no secret that once content is in digital form, it more mutable, transferable, and multi-purposable than it is in its analog state. Digital music, digital video, digital photos, digital text ... it takes just a few clicks of a mouse to grab it...

• 04/07/06 Marine Forecast

  Marine Forecast By Teresa A. Martin This week I was out and about ...to a hearing at UMASS/Dartmouth. The hearing was for Congressmen Barney Frank and Bill Delahunt and was designed to demonstrate the issues around marine tech and inform the congressional delegation about bot...