Random Articles

• February - One of My Two Least Favorite Months. February and August are my least favorite months in the upper Midwest. For the same but opposite reasons - uncomfortable weather. February is when the cold and depression of winter finally sets in (11°F as I write this). The snow turns mean in the cold; short-sheeting the dormant brown grass and grating like fingernails on a
• Citywide WiFi Needed in the Twin Cities, As Is Symmetrical DSL I grabbed lunch with Leif Utne earlier this week. As you might expect, it was a pretty intense conversation on podcasting, technology, politics, and the overlap. First order of business, I’m down with Minneapolis going with a private company to run citywide WiFi network for the two reasons cited in the Strib article: Startup CostsThe faster
• Sharing is Caring  Like yourself, I travel in a number of personal and professional circles; dad’s open gym night, neighbors, this project team, that project team, peers via podcasting, peers through information architecture, peers through visual design, etc. Each circle has different values and finds different things relevant. The chances of something I find interesting being relevant to
• I’m Covering Nat’l Conf. for MEdia Reform 2008 The 2008 National Conference for Media Reform will be held here in Minneapolis a weekend from now June 6-8. I’m excited to have a press pass to the conference. These 3 sessions that jumped out to me immediately: Minnesota Model: Countering Corporate Media (while I’m concerned we’ll be beating a dead horse, I can’t miss this one) Raising
• 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