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Darryl Swint's thoughts on mobility, marketing, convenience and e-commerce

Thanks to a germinating, ongoing merger of mobile smartphones, GPS-based, social media marketing and a tech-savvy consumer base comfortable with broadcasting its whims, movements and activity through satellite social media sites, the new economy is finally taking [...]

Losing time on the Dan Ryan Expressway

Chicago commuters are familiar with the minutes, hours and ultimately days annually lost while sitting in northbound rush hour traffic. A recently released report identified one stretch of the highway as the second-worst traffic bottleneck in the country. [...]

Where is Chicago's coolest movie theater?

Chicago’s critical cinematic eye drew global respect as Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert became household names. Ebert now blogs about movies, but where he screens them — the Lake Street Screening Room — is one of the city’s hidden [...]

Chicago is well-represented in Bravo's Top Chef Masters competition

On the heels of last year’s win by Frontera Grill’s Rick Bayless, this year, five Chicago chefs — the most contestants from one city — are in the field of 22 for Bravo TV’s Top Chef Masters. For this week’s Chicago Explainer story, I created a culinary tale of the tape of Second City’s five local [...]

Social media and the sports scene

Fry’s article caught my eye because the debate has been an issue of interest. In December 2008 while writing for stltoday.com’s Speaking Visually graphics blog, I briefly discussed the impact of Lance Armstrong’s embrace of Twitter. [...]

NFL helmet logos redesigned at Fast Company

This year, I’ve come across Ken Carbone’s Fast Company blog where he redesigns what he calls “the worst NFL helmet graphics. Carbone gives credit to what he considers the best NFL helmet logos: Dallas, St. Louis, Philadelphia and [...]

Chicago Explainer: How does Illinois certify its election results?

There’s nothing quite like Illinois politics.

Tuesday’s Election Day turnout was much lower than expected, but three statewide races (the Democratic and GOP governor’s race primaries and the state comptroller race) were so close they are currently decided by less than one vote per [...]

New mobile devices change the game

Nexus One. The rumored Apple tablet. Droid. Netbooks. iPhone 3G.

It’s an amazing time from a technological point of view. The exchange of information and ideas is being revised and adapted to new technologies. Media in particular, having taken their share of lumps over the past two years, have mobile and possibly tablet-formats on which to [...]

Thoughts on the SND Chicago meetup

I had a great time at the 05.16 SND-Chicago meetup. It’s great to discuss innovation possibilities in multimedia with a diverse range of journalists, marketers and [...]

An official response to the City Beat article

Unfortunately, the first thing I learned was even with good intentions to address a problematic facet of the media industry, “gotcha” tactics can easily mischaracterize someone. It dismisses credibility, hinders dialogue and undermines well-thought [...]