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• Cullect.com - “takes the web2 out of feed readers and I love it.” Arik Jones, one of the people I’ve asked to try Cullect.com for a week, wrote up his thoughts two-days in: “Unlike Google Reader it doesn’t inundate you with useless UI elements….What I like the most about Cullect is the ability to recommend feeds and then being able to give friends a dead simple url. It takes
• Cars Shouldn’t Smoke. I’m Sure of That. Last Thursday, as I come to the end of the exit ramp off Hwy 100, the Neon started smoking. Knowing this is generally a bad sign, I called up Stinson Auto and they sent over a tow truck. The tow truck driver took one whiff of the car and frantically disconnected the battery. “I don’t want it
• Cullect Demo, 10am April 4th, U of M’s Emerging Digerati Week 2008 As part of the U of M’s Emerging Digerati Week New Media Showcase, I’ll be demo-ing Cullect.com at the Weissmann Art Museum, 10am Friday, April 4th. That’s just Friday. The entire rest of the week is filled with presentations on technology innovations from throughout the university (traffic management, virtual reality environments, etc).
• Apple’s Weather Dashboard Widget Won’t Go Below 28F? As you might have heard, we finally got winter here in the upper Midwest. Not the Christmas-fluffy-white-snow-perfect-for-skiing-and-hot-cocoa-winter, the death-to-all-who-venture-out-of-doors winter. Both weather.com and accuweather.com say it’s a brisk -2°F (one degree lower since my last post). Strangely, Apple’s Weather Dashboard Widget tells me it’s a tropical 28°F and snowing. It’s way too cold to snow and
• 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