A recent post by Charles Laughlin on the BIA/Kelsey Local Media Watch blog takes a look at legislation moving through the California State Senate that would put some teeth into print white pages opt-out systems. Basically, it holds directory publishers accountable if they don’t walk their own talk about having opt-out systems in place, which [...]
I ran the Big Sur Marathon on Sunday: The race follows Highway 1 along the Pacific Ocean from Big Sur to Carmel, California. While the course has some incredible panoramic views of crashing waves, it also has a few hills: The downhill start was interesting. In fact, the start corral is so steep that it’s [...]
David E. Kaplan penned at article on April 1st about St. Paul’s strange use of individual trash collecting contracting at the household level for the Daily Planet. In that piece, he profiled a woman, Mary Hamel, in St. Anthony Park who got organized and managed to get everyone on her block to consolidate their trash [...]
Between volcanic interruptions, baggage fee increases, and booking fees beginning to resemble TicketMaster, it’s not like we don’t have a shortage of travel related topics to gripe about these days. However, I’m not going to let that stop me from throwing my own pet peeve onto the heap: Crowding the Baggage Claim: Why do so [...]
Garrick Van Buren posted a recent post about URL shorteners where he suggests that “URL Shorteners Are So Last Year” where he runs through a variety of examples to make his case. To me, this generated enough yeah but responses that I decided to respond here. For those not familiar with URL shorteners, they are [...]
Every once in a while, i get in a debate with someone regarding whether municipal or private trash hauling is a better option for a city’s residents. The video below breaks down my position on this never ending debate: To be clear, the municipal proposal doesn’t necessarily mean that the trash collectors are city employees. [...]
Hardcover Yellow Pages, originally uploaded by edkohler. My friend Barbara is showing off Vancouver’s latest print yellow pages found in the lobby of the Sheraton Guilford Hotel in Surrey, BC. This is a hardcover edition. Yes, that is correct. A hardcover yellow pages. That’s going to give the web a run for its money.
Looks like Minnesota Democrats Exposed has either been hacked (again), or they’re getting into the male enhancement pharmaceutical business. Here is a screenshot of the beginning of 803 lines of code that currently resides at the bottom of every page of that website: Searching Google for pages of MDE that mention one popular blue pill [...]
Back on March 3rd, Luke Hellier penned a blog post at Minnesota Democrats Exposed that was so inaccurate that Luke actually got around to including a public apology for what he wrote. Hart Van Denburg covered Luke’s apology at CityPages where Luke admits to making a mistake and apologizes to Senator Al Franken for the [...]
Back on March 26th, I showed an example of Luke Hellier completely hosing up a story by attributing a comment to the wrong person, calling a comment a blog post, and saying that the opinion of one anonymous blogger is the opinion of Democrats in general. And, doing nothing to correct this once it was [...]
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