Delta acquired Northwest Airlines near the end of October, 2008. Since then, Delta has been working on merging Northwest into the Delta brand. Planes are being repainted, gate signs updated, frequent flier plans merged, etc. But one area that seems to be resisting merging is which brand to associate with negative news. For example, the [...]
Back in February, I decided to run every street in the City of Minneapolis. I purchased a map of the city, which looked like this at the time: I started highlighting where I’d ran, starting this this 4-ish miler at the North end of North Minneapolis: As of now, the map looks like this: Optimistically, [...]
I’ve been thinking about how one could measure noise on Twitter. By noise, I mean people twittering without building an audience. If a person talks and talks and talks but no one listens, that’s just noise. At least, that’s my working definition of noise on Twitter. Working off that definition, I decided to take a [...]
I ask because of this headline: Paired with this description of where the accident occurred: 37th Avenue NE is the East-West border street separating Minneapolis (NE Minneapolis) from Fridley. It’s about as far as one can get from South Minneapolis and still be in Minneapolis. No part of South Minneapolis is on the East side [...]
Tom Elko traveled nine time zones East from Minneapolis to Doha, Qatar to take this TP shot at the La Cigale Hotel. That is some fine TP folding. Tom also pointed out that, while Qatar happens to be in the middle of the desert, they’re quite liberal with their use of their most scarce resource: [...]
Carly and I toured the Kingfield, Lyndale, and Whittier neighborhoods on Pleasant and Grand Aves S on Saturday. (FYI, today, Dec. 28th, just happens to be Carly’s birthday.) Lake Country School, at 38th & Pleasant, was our starting point. This school fosters some of Minneapolis’ greatest thinkers, based on my experience with friends who’ve attended [...]
Here are ten technology predictions I made at the start of 2009 over on Technology Evangelist. Did I get any right? 1. Google Docs will add Mail Merge functionality. This highly requested feature will allow more people to rely primarily on Google Docs for their office software solution. For example, organizations could build mailing lists [...]
As I mentioned the other day, Aaron Cocking isn’t much of a twitterer. Based on his Twitter profile pic, I assumed at the time that this may be because he’s stuck in a poorly lit basement (or, something like that). However, I noticed something over on Sally Jo Sorensen’s Bluestem Prairie blog that piqued my [...]
A recent comment on Minnesota Democrats Exposed helped me understand that there may be some misunderstandings between MDE readers and the reality based community when it comes to the size and scope of Minneapolis’ city budget. The latest example of this comes from a comment left from a commenter using the “Focused on 2010″ moniker. [...]
I mentioned on December 20th that Minnesota Democrats Exposed had been hacked, which can be verified by this Google search result for [Michael Brodkorb] where Google clearly sees a pharmaceutical spam site instead of Luke Hellier’s typical bloviating. Since then, things have taken a turn for the worse for MinnesotaDemocratsExposed.com. Now, not only are they [...]
@edkohler Tweets
