The Dayton’s Bluff Neighborhood is hosting a vacant home tour this weekend for people interested in investing in the neighborhood. Real Estate Snippets: Vacant Home Tour If you’ve ever considered doing rehab on an old St. Paul home, this might be a way to check out your options. The tour starts at 798 East 7th [...]
I believe I’ve had at least one conversation regarding the effectiveness of meta keywords in search engine rankings every week for the past 10 years. For some reason, it’s a sub-topic of SEO that inexperienced website owners hear about and suddenly latch onto as if they’ve suddenly discovered the keys to high search engine rankings. [...]
A new site from KARE-11 is launching tomorrow called Metromix (link not yet active). Probably the shortest description I can come up with is that it’s KARE’s answer to the StarTribune’s Vita.mn site. KARE-11 uses the following description on their job board: “A new local entertainment site aimed at 18-to-34-year-olds.” They also offer $5 for [...]
The opposite of a drive by: 6th/Cedar Av: Approx 9:15 pm, man shot while driving near intersection; he drove short distance after being shot, crashed into unoccupied parked car; another man was seated in car with victim when shooting occurred; victim died at scene according to attending paramedics CID investigating Another sniper: 1400 blk E [...]
According to local tech blogger and surfer Graeme Thickins, former WCCO weatherman Paul Douglas is working on a startup called, WeatherNation that will provide weather reporting to mid-size markets. Very interesting concept. Douglas offers some more details on his LinkedIn profile: This summer we launch WeatherNation, syndicating, “central-casting” weather reports for web sites, cable channels [...]
The Other Mike was right when he said that I may be in need of an intervention when it comes to my tissue habit. Problem solved: Paper towel folding: it’s the future. You’ll only find this in finer kitchenette enabled hotel rooms. This comes from a Denver TownePlace hotel. Luckily, I haven’t spilled anything so [...]
Last week I blogged about Marriott’s premium TP display where they use TP stickers: Katie suggested that this is wasteful, while Gabe explained that someone is supporting their family making these stickers (not to mention that someone is likely getting paid hourly to stick those stickers on the rolls). Jeremy’s only concern is that they [...]
One problem I’ve been noticing more and more as of late is that certain archived posts on blogs tend to become magnets for comment spam. One way to deal with this is to automatically close comments on posts after a set amount of time. That’s not a bad thing, but I think there can be [...]
Excessive Exclamations!!!!, originally uploaded by edkohler. This seems a like a little much for concrete block sales. Menards exclaimer, this is something that should be saved for your great deal on salted Nut Rolls.
Facebook’s new Lexicon feature (free Facebook membership required) graphs the popularity of terms used by Facebook members over time. For example, a search for the term “hangover” shows an unsurprising spike on January 1st: Looks like there is a recurring weekly hangover problem as well. And additional spikes for the days after St Patrick’s Day [...]
