Carly and I ran 27th and 30th Aves N on Sunday. But, before getting to those two blocks, I had to finish up the Eastern end of 26th Ave N starting from Bryant. That’s where I took myself out while running with The Other Mike by spraining my ankle in March 2009. I couldn’t find [...]
WCCO’s new site at minnesota.cbslocal.com has neighborhood pages, including this one for Longfellow. Is CBS hopping on the hyperlocal train? Mashing up APIs? Going Web 2.0 (or is it 3.0)? Syndicating RSS? Call it what you will, but in practice, it’s not fit for hyperlocal consumption. They appear to be pulling content from sources including [...]
Question: Name someone who would be Minnesota’s Governor-elect in if his party hadn’t moved so far to the right on social issues.
While you can’t tell from the picture, this was a smoking room at the Super 8 in Red Wing, MN. Mike and I tend to wing it when we bike tour, and this was one night when winging it had a flaw. That being said, the TP was great, so things could have been worse.
Jeff Severns Guntzel is doing some interesting work with the murder data in the City of Minneapolis. After aggregating much of the publicly available data surrounding each murder and putting it into a Google Fusion Table, it’s relatively easy to get a feel for what’s happening when, where, with what, and to whom. For example, [...]
Dick Larkin of YP Commando has an interesting list of “hillbilly logic” in his newsletter where he presents yellow pages industry positions on a lot of hot topics in the news these days. He starts out by insulting politicians who’ve attempted to respond to concerns from constituents regarding over delivery of yellow pages directories, then [...]
I unsubscribed from Yellowbook’s printed directory in 2008, but still received a directory from them in both 2009 and 2010, showing that the company is not capable of living up to its own promises. So, this year, I decided to take a different approach to dealing with Yellowbook: I invoiced them for littering on my [...]
The Comfort Inn in Crystal Lake, IL walks the walk with this TP presentation. Nothing fancy, but . . . comfortable.
Two weeks back, I attended a meeting at UROC to discuss the plans to expand the NiceRide bike rental program further into North Minneapolis through the roll-out of additional bike kiosk locations. Here are a few nuggets with commentary. NiceRide is hoping to double in size in 2011, including moving into St. Paul Regarding the [...]
Sara Duane from Twin Cities Spark interviewed me last week about The Deets. Check it out.
