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Project Launch: Minnesota Judicial Branch Website
I’m happy to see the new Minnesota Judicial Branch site launched this month (old one’s available for a while here if you want to compare and contrast). Looks like it’s a somewhat ‘soft’ launch – as they migrate content from the old to the new. Last year, I helped the Court Information Office with the …
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What’s Wrong with Most People?
I remotely participated in a couple BloggerCon IV sessions this past weekend. I’m still a little in awe of how immersive the combination of IRC and streaming audio – kudos to the Dave Winer and the other organizers for bringing in the rest of the world. Somewhere in the Niall Kennedy-led ‘Standards for Users’ session …
Treasure Hunters Not an Amazing Race
Of course ever-anxious Tivo recorded NBC’s response to CBS’ Amazing Race – Treasure Hunters. Off the bat, I have my reservations about a program that so obviously is the television version of the 2004 Nick Cage car-accident National Treasure and the Tom Hanks-starred Da Vinci Code. Unfortunately, it’s much, much worse than that. Aside from …
RSS Puts Identification in the Hands of Your Customers
I’m listening to the Individualized-RSS podcast over at Marketing Edge podcast. The conversation is an attempt to bring the weakness of email into the strength of RSS (or verse-vica as the case maybe) – unique reader identification. This is what I alluded to in this post from a couple months ago. There’s nothing in the …
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Wanted: High Efficiency Washer / Dryer Recommendations
Like Shel‘s, our current washer and dryer is ancient. More ancient than the one we left at the last house. So, our washes aren’t as washed as we’d like and well, damp is not a synonym for dry. I checked. We were going to wait a year and do a huge home appliance upgrade (fridge …
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6 O’Rocket News Boom
A pretty big storm passed through town last night. Thunder, lightening, complete down pour for hours. Kinda thing that makes you glad to be inside (we weren’t when it started). I flipped on the TV, to get some idea of what we should be expecting. This is the first time I’ve watched the local news …
The Bottomless Feed and the Need for Now Context
“I’ve punted on trying to catch up on 19,000+ updated posts in Bloglines. I don’t have the time, or interest, in trying to sift through them all. I picked out a few blogs from a few categories that I’m absolutely interested in and skimmed through them and then marked all as read.” – Ed Costello …
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The Old House Has Been Demo’d
This morning we grabbed some coffee, put Cooper in his stroller, and took a walk up the block to watch the old house get knocked down. Hopeful is the only word that comes to mind. More photos here and here on Cooper’s site.
Applications and Features I’m Interested In
Shared read/write calendar – so multiple people can change the information on a specific event. Shared presentation application – so a group of people could easily see the same thing, controlled by a single person, sans-projector.