I’m on the local police department’s email announcement list. Earlier today, a ‘suspicious activity’ alert went out possible attempted burglary. Just now, I received the clarifying email: “…we have determined that the attempted burglary was, in fact, an individual who went to the wrong address.” This message says so many good things about the police …
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
On the Trust-iness of the Media
In last night’s talk with MN ISPI on wikis, blogs, etc – the issue of citing Wikipedia as a source came up. Like citing the 1911 version of Brittanica is the same as citing the current version. A strawman argument. One based on false assumptions. Assumptions that established organizations don’t have biases, aren’t infallible, and …
Maps of Parallel Americas: Republik van Nieuw Nederland
If you’ve ever wondered what New York would be like if it remained a Dutch colony until the late 1700s? I’m thankful we finally have an answer. “New Netherland achieved independence in 1798, after the ‘old’ Netherlands were overrun by the French. Philip Schuyler, the last Director-General of the colony, became the first Prime Minister …
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Cullect.com for Curation
As I’ve mentioned before, our lives are multi-faceted. Each facet has its own community of trusted experts. Some are friends, other are colleagues, or simply authoritative in their field. If you’ve been following my development of Cullect, then you know early on, I switched from the label ‘Editors’ to ‘Curators’ to describe the people behind …
Twitter Updates for 2008-02-04
@CraigPratchett – my review of Born Rich from June ’06 http://tinyurl.com/2r3ugt # just got pulled into http://www.naymz.com/ – yah, even w/ it’s downtime, Twitter is my favorite and my best # is @ Kopplins for my first day back doing client work….well for the next 39 minutes of battery life. # @geniodiabolico, just wanted to …
Twitter Updates for 2008-02-01
potty training stats: hours to pants ratio; 3:5 # "treat your users as owners"…another principle behind @cullect – cullect/1: http://culld.us/687441 # "The slicker you make your show, the more it looks like a Pepsi commercial. It also gets less interesting to me " http://culld.us/687256 … # IL2: MPR’s rebroadcast of last night’s debates. Definitely not …
Twitter Updates for 2008-01-31
Guiliani’s presidential campaign was a manifestation of New York City arrogance. # is looking for people w/ blogs that they can add javascript widgets onto to test a new feature of @cullect. DM me. kthxbye. # proving the future is already here: "policy changes begin to affect the economy as soon as they are anticipated" …
Twitter Updates for 2008-01-30
after forgetting about it for ~2 years, one of the very 1st features for ‘feedseeder’ came back to me this morning. It now awaits deployment # @geniodiabolico – as both listener and a publisher I’ve found it overly complex and fragile. # http://tinyurl.com/34tcx3 confirms my feelings that the economy is only bad because it’s an …
Twitter Updates for 2008-01-29
MinnPost proves they’re ‘real journalists’ by speculating. Rad. http://tinyurl.com/yntbf4 thx @s4xton # @BaldGuyShow_AJ – I did – http://tinyurl.com/yp3rv5 – from http://TerraPass.com # @BaldGuyShow_AJ – why do you ask? # Powered by Twitter Tools.
Twitter Updates for 2008-01-28
@geniodiabolico inspired by one of your tweets, I heavily refactored @cullect all weekend. So heavily, I need a new MC. Who’s your favorite? # @gapingvoid, "hey, they’re Parisian literary purists – they’re going to bitch and moan anyway." Brilliant! cullect/1: http://culld.us/641081 # @geniodiabolico – Chuck D is works. I’m versioning w/ ‘MC’ or ‘Mc’ or …