The StarTribune smeared a story about Minnesota Public Radio over 4 auto-refreshing pages on Sunday night that included stats comparing the number of page views and unique visitors of minnesota.publicradio.org, startribune.com, and minnpost.com. In the story, they cite the following page views and unique visitor stats from Nielsen (a reputable source for website traffic reporting). [...]
Starting from the NE corner of NE Minneapolis, I did a run through the Waite Park and Columbia Park neighborhoods. Heading West along 37th, bordering Columbia Heights, I the Korean First Baptist Church. At University Ave NE, I stopped to check out the view of the Minneapolis skyline. Hi-View Park, at Main St & 35th [...]
The exit to the Cub grocery store on Lake & Hiawatha in Minneapolis has a good example of opt-in phone book delivery in practice. Notice the neatly stacked books on the bottom shelf of this display. Thousands of people use this grocery store every day and can easily toss one of those books into their [...]
Yes, those are baby bottle shape candy items called Baby Bottle Pop on display at the Lake & Hiawatha Cub grocery store. And, yes, they are displayed at eye level for small crawling humans.
The MPD sent out this look at year over year crime statistics for the neighborhoods making up Sector 2. That’s basically the section of Minneapolis just Southwest of the corner of Lake & Hiawatha. On nearly all counts, things seem to have improved over the past year: While this is cool information, the City of [...]
As regular readers of this blog know, I occasionally get interviewed by news sources to discuss things I either know something about, am passionate about, or claim to know something about. To me, this is good humor, helps people add some depth to their stories, and occasionally lets me gain greater exposure for topics I [...]
Being a Longfellow Community resident, I’m running out of streets near my home in my Run Minneapolis project due to convenience. However, there were two nearby in need of attention last night: 45th & 42nd Aves. I was joined by Carly, Meg, and Carolyn, (actually, it was me joining them) as they ran down to [...]
Ryan asked the following question in the comments of my previous post about Emily Kaiser’s return to Digg.com: That graph represents her diggs of VVM stories exclusively? That’s a fair question. What if, upon Emily’s return to Digg, she started using Digg for something other than pimping VVM stories? Just for Ryan, I pulled the [...]
Back on Feb 5th, I posted a story about how Village Voice Media’s various online properties work together to cross-promote each other’s stories on Digg. That happened to be the same day that CityPages’ Emily Kaiser stopped using Digg. At least that was the short-term case. Two months later, she Dugg two things, took another [...]
Key West is as far as Katie can go in the continental USA to capture a TP shot for The Deets. An upscale fold in an upscale hotel. No word on whether you can see Cuba from your Key West hotel room.
