About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
Tyler Patterson just finished up a Masters Thesis project investigating adding all the University of Minnesota Twin Cities’ campus energy sources into the Chicago Climate Exchange. In this numbers and stats intensive conversation, we discuss: The methodology of the measuring the campus’ carbon footprint The economics of the carbon trading and energy efficiency The trade-offs …
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Matt Thompson (Snarkmarket, vita.mn) and I discuss one of Matt’s most compelling memes – telling stories over time. via: The rise and fall of monoculture Newspaper circulation – 1967 to 1991 Future of journalism and the power of hyperlinks Joshua Micah Marshall vs. Trent Lott Google Finance Listen to Time Traveling Journalism with Matt Thompson …
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The last hold-out in the Twin Cities commercial ‘alternative’ radio dial succumbed to Love today. “Every mini-van driving soccer mom with a 15 year old will be pleased as punch when she turns on her radio and hears this festival of shit pouring forth from her speakers.” – Sornie Two choices remain; The Current, or …
Peter Fleck is asking about content guidelines for Minneapolis’ wireless portal. My initial thoughts….. Some of you may know I worked on a similar project (same idea, but in the private sector) back around 2000. All the problems we struggled with then are non-existant now (syndication formats, wireless equipment, etc). Since the U of M’s …
We catch up with Twin Cities coffee legend Jeremy Raths and talk about: Moving The Roastery from a coffee shop in the middle of St. Paul to delivering coffee from an abandon convent. The history of the speciality coffee market – nationally and locally. How the coffee market is changing to benefit the small, local, …
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Jeremy Raths, from The Roastery, teaches us how to cup – the traditional process for tasting and choosing coffee. He walks through: The cupping process How he teaches others how to cup The need to be emotionally self-aware when cupping How to get the cupping experience at home The responsibility and integrity of a good …
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Anyone know a good source for downloading, local, independent music. Specifically, I’m looking for Minnesota-based or MN, WI, NoDak, SoDak, IA music. Thanks Update 27 April 2007: I’ve Googled for answer to this question and come up with a number of local music directory projects – some clearly abandon, others just useless. All of these …
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This is a test of posting through the feedseeder project. Something I’ll be demo-ing @ Minnebar, check the schedule for when. MinneBar 07 Schedule Is Out – J Wynia Update: “…or an information architect saying things like the browser is dead, I’m looking forward to catching up on your version of crazy.” – Aaron Mentele …
“…my fear on this one is that no one will want to drink [the beer] for fear they will be implicated, or worse yet, sympathetic to the kidnappers.” – Bongo’s slightly regretful kidnapper.
Dan Haugen and I talk about Northeast Beat, his citizen journalism project covering my favorite part of Minneapolis, and hyperlocal journalism. Listen to Dan Haugen on Northeast Beat and Hyperlocal Journalism [14 min].