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• Punch Pizza No Knock Out Last night Jen, Jer, Sam, and I went for a leisurely dinner at Punch Neapolitan Pizza. Punch Pizza is continually declared the best pizza in the Twin Cities. The City Pages included Punch on their Best of Lists in 2003 and 2004, the Mpls.St.Paul Magazine also ranks it highly. On this particular Saturday night, the space was
• Notes from Bob Garfield’s Chaos Scenario 2.0 Talk at Macalester Bob Garfield’s Chaos Scenario 2.0 presentation on Monday night felt like the opposite of the Blind Men and the Elephant. He’s just one of the many people from different angles, proclaiming that Advertising is dying and it’ll kill media as we know it. “That horrible crashing sound you hear is a gravy train derailing.” - Jeff
• Quoted in APM’s ‘The Pork Wars on YouTube’ As part of APM’s Public Insight Journalism program, I was interviewed as about the use of sites like YouTube for political issues (vs. campaigns) - specifically in the context of the recent tennis match between animal rights groups vs farm industry groups. Here’s the bit of my interview they used on-air and online. “Garrick Van Buren is
• Another Reason I Can’t Support Minnesota Public Radio First off, I never contributed millions (or even thousands) to public radio. A couple hundred bucks here and there. And I know a couple people employed by the Minnesota Public Radio. Heck, I even helped them usability test their site a while back. Kinda fun sitting on the other side of the desk. That said, I
• Italian-American Comfort Food at Cossetta’s Last night, Darrel and Mark W. from MNteractive.com and I grabbed a bite at Cossetta’s in downtown St. Paul. When we were in Evanston, IL, Jen and I lived right next to Panino’s Italian Cafe. Panino’s is a little takeout italian place with decent pizza, soggy italian beefs, and overdone onion rings. All 5 minutes past