The Other Mike and I biked near and around Lake Pepin two weekend ago. Great riding. That’s me above somewhere in Sconie along the Eastern shore of Lake Pepin. If my memory serves me right, that’s somewhere after Maiden Rock. Here is what we covered over two days: Day 1: We drove to Lake City, [...]
It’s hard not to pick on Scott Johnson over at the Powerline blog when he publishes a post, then later updates it with a new final paragraph like this one: CORRECTION: Luke Hellier has corrected his MDE post to reflect that the affidavits were removed from the court file by the attorney for Dayton’s wife, [...]
Mike Masnick has a piece up on Techdirt talking about the ridiculousness of the 17 state attorney generals who are attempting to shut down Craiglist’s Adult Services category. Masnick’s take on this is that law enforcement officials that are interested in actually preventing crimes should use Craigslist to their advantage rather than push Craigslist’s advertisers [...]
MPR has been doing a great job maintaining a Google Map of Minneapolis’ 2010 homicides. Here’s the map, as they present it on their site: View 2010 Mpls. Homicides in a larger map Each marker links to a story they’ve done related to that homicide. This is an excellent way to help people access archived [...]
In boardrooms of yellow pages companies around the country, conversations like this are taking place: PR: We’re getting flak about all of the waste our books generate. People are taking pictures of directories rotting outside foreclosed homes. It’s not good. CEO: What can we do to create the illusion that we’re a green industry? CFO: [...]
Pete Warden put together an interesting data visualization by plotting startups listed on Crunchbase by their zip codes. Not surprisingly, the found that the top zips for startups (and startup capital) are in or near Silicon Valley, Seattle, Boston, or New York City. Since he plotted the entire country, I drilled down to the Upper [...]
If you haven’t been on Lowry Ave N lately, you may be surprised by how much things have changed. But don’t take more word for it. Here’s the perspective of someone who’s tracked the street walking scene over the years: Lowry Avenue near the Library was once one of the city’s most popular ho strolls. [...]
Yellow Pages industry insider, Ken Clark, once again proves that he has no clue how to deal with changes to the yellow pages landscape by insulting people who complain about the costs of yellow pages disposal: The link in his tweet goes to this post on The Deets where I tried to break down the [...]
One of Minnesota’s GOP districts (SD56) has published what is the strangest videos I’ve seen coming out of a political party this year. I’ve embedded it below. In case you can’t handle the entire thing, the first three minutes show attractive pictures of women associated with Republican politics, and the last two show the worst [...]
One of Tom Emmer’s trackers (the people who stalk Emmer’s opponents on the campaign trail with video cameras), Abby Michaud, seems like quite a character. Here’s her LinkedIn history: On her Twitter account, she mentions that she’s a “professional stalker”: Which does seem like a more accurate description than Research Analyst. She also maintains a [...]
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