February 2009
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Oft-rode vehicles
Back in the summer of ’05, I put up a post that ran down a list of all the cars I’ve owned. Since then I’ve added one more car to that list. Since it’s giving me trouble lately I thought I’d copy over and update the original vehicular C.V. and add a few more words… Continue reading
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Sony Hit With a Clue-By-Four
This Onion Video may be the best thing that ever happened to Sony. Continue reading
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Just asking
Has President Obama made a single appointment that says “change”? Here’s his latest. Continue reading
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Visting a Late Lake
Not long ago as geology goes — nine, ten, twelve millennia — one of the world’s largest lakes covered most of Minnesota, plus much of North Dakota, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Ontario and a corner of South Dakota. It’s called Lake Agassiz, named after the scientist Louis Agassiz, who figured out the Ice Age (continental glaciation, basically),… Continue reading
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Great memories
Ruth Dwyer was married long and happily to my father‘s cousin Jack Dwyer. Even though she was Pop’s cousin-in-law, we still called her Aunt Ruth. Jack was Uncle Jack too, as was his father, who was married to my grandma Searls’ sister Florence. I pulled this picture of Ruth from this family shot here. She’s… Continue reading
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Quote du jour
To my amazement, the hashtag had been established by the governor’s staff — who were tweeting major points of Granholm’s speech as she made them. — Dave Poulson in Poynter E-Media Tidbits. Via @JoeTrippi Continue reading
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Toward understanding the MIddle East
I don’t write much about war, mostly because I’d rather write about stuff I can do something about. As a young man I opposed the Vietnam war, wrote about it, protested against it. If I hadn’t lucked into a medical deferment, I would have been a conscientious objector, like some of my good friends. Stephen… Continue reading
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Dine on, whoever you are
The Identity Community is getting together for dinner, the invite says. This coming Monday, at Mifune, an Asian fusion cuisine place on Mass Ave, about 2 miles north of Harvard Square. (Easy on the #77 bus.) I just signed up. Continue reading
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I was overheard to have once said…
Modern Marketing: A few years ago I saw Doc Searls make a presentation in which he noted, ‘In networked environments, the demand side supplies itself’. It’s a statement that sums up nicely what is happening in today’s TV industry – all beyond the legislators’ gaze. I heard recently that a station in a big… Continue reading
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The New York Mash
Just noticed Blogrunner, which looks like a mash of Technorati and Google News. The brief About: Blogrunner is a news aggregator from The New York Times that monitors articles and blog posts and tracks news stories as they develop across the Web. Below that is a link to its blog. Here’s the FAQ. Continue reading
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Getting rained out in a brainstorm
In a meeting yesterday, somebody on the IRC shared links to “Re-identification of home addresses from spatial locations anonymized by Gaussian skew” and “Bregman divergences in the (m x k)-partitioning problem“, from Science Digest. Sez the abstract of the latter, A method of fixed cardinality partition is examined. This methodology can be applied on many… Continue reading
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Renaissance Twitter Reading
Reading David Armano from Marcus Brown. Wicked, but funny. Wish I could embed videos here, but I haven’t mastered that yet. Continue reading
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Lay-on
That would be the opposite of a lay-off, no? Anyway, my friend Brian Benz is one of the too many people recently laid off from IBM. He tells the story here. What matters: I have until February 23 to find another position at IBM, so if any one knows of an opportunity inside IBM… Continue reading
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Smaller print
I love the Onion Mobile ad here. Great headline: “The Onion Just Got Smaller and More Difficult to Read.” Perfect. Continue reading
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Hypeless hyperlocal
Keith Hopper started a good thread with A Brief History of Hyperlocal News, written to focus attention on the category, separate from the hype around it. Good observations, questions, answers and more questions, both in the post and the comments. And lots of helpful links throughout. Continue reading
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The advertising bubble
continues to pop. The money ‘graphs: Market research company eMarketer recently cut its estimate of advertising spending on the social networking sites, including Facebook, MySpace and Bebo, this year by $455 million to $1.3 billion. It said US advertising spending on Facebook will fall by 20 percent to $602 million. IDC said advertisers… Continue reading
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Tired of sucky AT&T Wireless coverage at home?
Me too. Which brings up the subject of this post here. Continue reading