It’s not often than I stumble across a street in Minneapolis that I’ve never heard of, such as Oak Park Ave & Dorr Drive. Finding two at an intersection was even more surprising as I pulled up to the East side of the tracks near Theodore Wirth Golf Course. This was the starting point for [...]
The Red Roof Inn along the interstate in Madison, WI proves that you don’t need to charge high end prices to provide high end TP folding. This comes to us from my parents. I don’t know which one took it, but my mom is better at email attachments so it came from her.
Dear StarTribune online advertisers. I think it’s great that you support Minneapolis’ major online media source. But, I think it’s worth understanding where some of your money is going. Earlier this week, I clicked on a link to a StarTribune.com story from a Tweet or something. I’m not sure how I got there, but the [...]
Google became the most valuable website in the world by linking OUT from their website to OTHER websites. People find the site valuable because they provide fast and easy access to valuable information on other websites. Give that, why would you think it’s a good idea to force visitors to open a new window (or [...]
I had a little chat about my latest obsession, the Google PowerMeter service, on Quick On The UpTake with Mike McIntee this afternoon. Good times were had. The theme of the hour was energy conservation starting with my segment at 15 minutes into the segment embedded above (that a live studio shot of Mike doing [...]
Justin sent in a scan of the door hanger Qwest Dex left at his home this week, proving that Qwest is capable of honoring opt-out requests. They don’t always get it right, but they do appear to be making an effort. This seems to occasionally work. For example, Aaron received a similar alert from Dex [...]
Jamie Thingelstad raised what is likely a common privacy concern regarding Google’s PowerMeter service in the comments of my previous post: Knowing someone uses 2x the “neighborhood” average of electricity would be a great targeting opportunity. For whatever reason, I find that data crossing a boundary that makes me a little nervous. I don’t know [...]
Based on the underwhelming feedback that came in tonight, I get the impression that none of you watched FOX 9 tonight. Or, if you did, you blinked while I was on. Be patient with this clip if you can’t get enough of me. FOX 9′s Maury Glover was a really nice guy. We talked about [...]
Google announced last week that they had formed a device partnership with a company called T.E.D. to provide hardware to power their PowerMeter service. (Amazon appears to carry it as well.) For those of you unfamiliar with the service, it’s a real-time energy monitoring service with a web-based interface, so you can see exactly how [...]
This has probably been around for a while now, but it’s the first time I’ve seen it. During the Gopher football game on Saturday, Goldie Gopher held up an oversized TCF Bank debit card to the student section while the announcers asked students to whip out their plastic. Are the students holding up TCF cards [...]
