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• Garrick Speaking at Civic League’s Future of Policy Making in MN Series On August 22nd, as part of the Citizens Leagues’ 2006 Summer Policy Series, I’ll be joining Tom Swain, Jean LeVander King, Jen Alstad, and Steve Borsch for a conversation on the Future of the Web and Civic Engagement. Should be an interesting conversation - especially since it kicks off at 7:30am. Here’s my initial thoughts on
• From Podcast to Publish If you’re in the Twin Cities, head on down to your favorite coffee shop and grab the Sept. issue of the Rake. Then turn to page 18, second column. Yep, that’s an article by yours truly. Sure, you could stay indoors and click this Prairie Home Companion Production Assistant link, but it’s a beautiful late
• Fact Checking My Own Ass Google alerted me to MarketWatch’s Bloggers won’t keep a secret article where my mis-quote of Dan Gillmor got a mention. Some bloggers are almost proud of making a mistake. It gives them a chance to make a correction and appear oh, so humble and honest. Garrick Van Buren, who blogged about a showing of “Blogumentary” at
• True Thai is Our New Thai Place. Last night, Jen and I ate at True Thai down on the south side of Minneapolis. This was our second attempt at dining there. Attempt #1 was trying to seat a party of 6 on a Saturday night, without calling ahead = bad idea. I haven’t been real pleased with the Minneapolis’ Thai offerings. Sawatdee’s
• A Christmas to Remember I just finished shoveling the last couple inches of the light, fluffly snow that’s been steadily falling this past week. A perfect end to the best Christmas I’ve had in two decades. Some highlights: Having my immediate family all in the same room at the same time on Christmas day. This in itself made the day. To