The Deets

Goose Blogging, originally uploaded by edkohler. A family friendly goose post. That is all.

Geoff Daily, a Minnesota native living in DC, and Christopher Mitchell, the Director of Telecommunications as Commons for the Institute for Local Self Reliance discuss the role of municipalities in the growth of broadband with a Minneapolis perspective: Key lines from Christopher: “Here in St. Paul and Minneapolis they’re building a $1 billion light rail [...]

Google AdSense is a remarkably powerful ad platform for websites that happen to write about topics that have high value ads. For example, tech, travel, legal, and personal finance sites tend to connect with high cost per click ads. The context used for contextually based ads today is largely based on the context of the [...]

The EPA has decided how clean is clean enough when it comes to arsenic levels in South Minneapolis. The verdict: 25ppm (parts per million) in residential soil: 56% higher than the naturally occurring 16ppm level – a level the EPA has previously cleaned residential soil to in other areas of the country. Another way of [...]

Google Analytics has a ton of interesting reports, but at times it can be tough to separate the signal from the noise. One report I like to run that helps me gauge whether a site is heading in the right direction is a monthly view of organic search traffic from Google. While some forms of [...]

Apparently, my bro-in-law Quinn is popular enough to earn his own sweatshirt on Amazon: Although it’s a bit amateurish. You don’t need to write love on a a shirt with a heart. That’s totally redundant.

Gary has some great tips on Eat, Drink, or Die on how to remember what wines you’ve like in the past so you can provide good information to wine experts on your next visit to a wine shop. A cork is not enough since that will generally just have a brand listed (and you can [...]

A guy in San Francisco has created a form of Graffiti where he selectively cleans walls that are covered in soot, leaving artistic cleanliness behind. He makes interesting statements and doing an extraordinary job pointing out just how dirty cities become. This made me think about how my lungs deal with the soot that he [...]

Back on April 1st, I decided to “unfriend” Facebook friends of mine who didn’t use their real names or include a photo of themselves with their profiles. One of my Facebook friends I unfriended (only in the world of Facebook) was Greg Swan, who happened to notice over the weekend that I’ve refriended him. Did [...]

Photo by Lulu Vision I’m not a big fan of unsolicited mail in any form, including letters, email, and phone books. If you want it, fine. But having an address should not be permission enough for marketers to carpet bomb your home with marketing messages. Greg at Metblogs recently took a look at the phone [...]