THESE ARE DIFFICULT days for interpersonal communication. It’s not just that so many of us aren’t on the same page; increasingly, it seems, we’re not even in the same book. Add to that the slippery reality we’re all living through and it’s a wonder we can communicate at all. Just one month ago I began […]
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MEET AARON LANCASTER Age: 30 Hometown: Bentonville, Arkansas Apprenticeship: WEHCO Media MY BACK STORY I grew up in Bentonville and started getting into computers as a kid. I was actually into 3D modeling and animation for a while as a teenager. As for making my living with computers, I honestly didn’t know. I just knew
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THE NEWPORT INITIATIVEOne year in, and counting Jon Chadwell,Executive Director,Newport Economic Development Commission JUST SHY OF a year ago, G.B. Cazes of The Emory Group wrote compellingly in this space about a “crisis of regional imbalance” in this country’s tech and innovation landscape. “Much of Middle America is being overlooked,” Cazes wrote, “as big tech
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John Chamberlin, Tech Entrepreneur, Teacher, & Cheerleader for Arkansas’ Computing History, Part 2 JOHN CHAMBERLIN, FOUNDER (in 1975) of Arkansas Systems, Inc., is a diehard promoter of this state’s long, impressive, and generally underappreciated history of technological expertise and accomplishment. In last month’s newsletter, Chamberlin recounted how he, James Hendren, and their team turned Arkansas
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