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Quote: "Do not look back and grieve over the past for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful it will be worth remembering." - Idus Scott Taylor

Scrivener
Veropedia
For the Birds
Why did reporters for years end their stories by writing '- 30 -'?
OAuth Core 1.0 Final Draft is out — now build stuff!
The Future of Web Startups
Amazon.com's Dynamo internal operating system

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2554240.ece

Free dailies are reaching younger, urban market
Lucas County WIC Leads Ohio In Farmers' Market Coupon Redemption
Toledo liable for pension costs in collective bargaining agreement
Toledo 29th in big cities in rates of foreclosure
jerry rockwell's mountain dulcimer page - books
everything dulcimer discussion
Are You Being Gouged? - from a cyberjournalist posting
Political sites - From Meetup to MySpace
minti.com - parent to parent advice-opedia
Principles and Guidelines for the Modern Photowalker
7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails
Totally disappointed at a TPS High School Open House 9/12/07
sunset pic by another flickr user
hotest and coldest job markets - Sep 2007
Why the blogosphere white-out of Jena 6?
Progressive blogosphere MIA on Jena 6
1985 NY Times article about Hemingway
Brett Favre Touchdown Database
Happy 25th Anniversary! :-)

Great news headlines for Sep 18, 2007 :

Garden Fresh Gourmet - Jack's Special Mild Salsa - tomatoes, onions, green peppers, cilantro, jalapenos, vinegar, lime juice, salt, celery, cane sugar, garlic, spices, citric acid.

Southwyck mall principal owners, Bill Dillard of Dillard's Inc., of Little Rock, and Sherman Dreiseszun and Tom Morgan, of Dreiseszun & Morgan of Kansas City, Mo.

aug 26
aug 31, 2007

social sites in china:

Food Stamp Challenge

for dummies cover generator
Linux-based cell phones
Teach the People
TechCrunch 40 - 2007
Wordpress vs Drupal
Local Search Finally Living Up To Its Promise
Chrysler to Recall 300,000 Vehicles Over Potential Braking Problem - 156,796 model-year 2006-2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee and Commander SUVs; 90,383 model year 2007 Jeep Wrangler SUVs; and 49,371 model year 2007 Dodge Nitro SUVs.
Networked Journalism Summit
Getting Things Done - (43 Folders)
Civic Space
Mac in your top
NY Times gives MoveOn.org huge discount on full page ad
Clean Your Home in 19 Minutes
Search In The Year 2010: Part Two
Good Nature - Northeast Ohio organic lawn care company
Ohio Prairie Nursery - native grassland seed mixes
Aug 3, 2007 TFP story - Wiffleball field one of area's best-kept secrets
Ryobi 18 Volt Chainsaw
Writers Circle
The Perfect Pushup
Wiki Rage
Brown's Rootbeer and Sandwich Shop - South Lyon, MI
Kitty Todd photos by Wild Ones founder
What's Better to Build Community: Blogs or Forums?
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/games/bloxorz
http://www.testiphone.com
Opera Mini mobile browser simulator
Tumblr
Uh, why’s the official Tumblr blog on WordPress?
Blog of the future
LinkedIn vs Facebook
In Wiki-Politics, Ron Paul Leads the Field
Mobile phones for owl tracking
The Cheapskate Guide: 50 Tips for Frugal Living
Web 2.0 - What went wrong?
Typewriter Art
Digital photo art: Four Seasons, One Tree
A Brief History of Test Frameworks
SugarCRM - open source software company with a LAMP product planning to go public
loopt
Y Combinator
dmoz
bloggiest cities
Hey Nielsen! - story
Expanding mountaintop coal mining
My NY Times
YouTube-style Embeddable Google Maps
BarCampBlock
BarCampBlock recap
socialstream
open id spec
Python Tutorial - Guido van Rossum
http://www.diveintopython.org
http://www.ohloh.net/ - open source network that connects people through the software they create and use
http://www.fireflymediaserver.org
open id
my open id
pibb
janrain
global grind

Small World Labs - makers of social software
Oneupweb - Traverse City
Google's Business Referral Representative program - Google's Local Search Land Grab
The $200 Billion Rip-Off: Our broadband future was stolen
The Stingray Foldz Flat Pen
Google News add special comments - techmeme
FeedUp
Kosmix
EPA: Toledo area meets the health standard for smog
That's My King! YouTube video featuring S.M. Lockridge
http://fatdoor.com
http://www.rateitall.com
HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn't)
http://wifinetnews.com
Kids say e-mail is, like, soooo dead
WebArt to overhaul TPS Web site
Communica is retooling City of Toledo web site.
John Murtha, the king of pork in the 2008 military spending bill

William "Freezer" Jefferson " The raid was part of a 16-month international bribery investigation of Jefferson, who allegedly accepted $100,000 from a telecommunications businessman, $90,000 of which was later recovered in a freezer in the congressman's Washington home. Jefferson pleaded not guilty in June to charges of soliciting more than $500,000 in bribes while using his office to broker business deals in Africa."

Jihad the Musical'Jihad+The+Musical'%3A+'Tasteless'+show+about+Islamic+terrorism+comes+to+the+UK/article.do
Wikimentary
Yahoo! Top 10 properties
etsy.com
Bubble 2.0 Coming Soon
College Wikis
Hill-Terry bill
Numsum
Al Qaeda's smoking ban plan
Jimdo - Pages to the People
Public Radio’s Social Media Experiments: Risk, Opportunity, Challenge
Oscar, the cat of death
Creative Loafing Inc.
NJ Voices
iPhone v. BlackBerry: Side By Side, Two Week Comparison

Ithaca:

http://www.compete.com/
Jerry Seinfeld's productivity secret
How to Write and Publish a Novel
Nonprofit Technology Network
Underscores are now word separators, proclaims Google

Of course, Carbon Neutral Web sites get to display one of the official logos. A couple:

Fisher Space Pen
Should Newspapers Become Local Blog Networks?
Work Together: 60+ Collaborative Tools for Groups

Dulcimer

Shoes:

Oregon Biking - Permaculture & Sustainability Tour
Bike Friday
Bike Friday - tikit bike

Hendrix in Woodstock (Voodoo Child)
NY Crater
Truthout
Dialect Survey Maps and Results
Iraq War Spending Vs. Education Spending
OpenID site directory
$298 Wal-Mart PC features OpenOffice.org, Windows Vista Home Basic
A guide to the best independent Ohio bookstores
WaPo's new hyperlocal site --> LoudounExtra
Wither the Enterprise Wiki?
Wikidot
YAML
Basecamp API
Paul Rand - graphic designer
The future of the Web as seen by its creator - Tim Berners-Lee on the Semantic Web.
Google Mapplets - blog posting - YouTube video
Parker Wallace web development and consulting
Motorola PEBL - less phone
Iced Coffee? No Sweat
Cold-brew coffee
I can haz cheezburger
Take Control of Your Community's Food Destiny
35 Perspectives on Online Social Networking
Ron Paul Has More Cash On Hand Than John McCain!
Scissor Sisters Live - Take Your Mama YouTube video
Scissor Sisters - Take Your Mama Out another YouTube video
All the News That’s Fit to Print Out
Russ Lemmon Fla columns
Apple's iPhone Dissected -We did it, so you don't have to
White House Caught Doctoring 'Mission Accomplished' Videohttp
A list of iPhone dissapointments.
First idiot to drop iPhone!
10 Things that 'Absolutely suck' about the iPhone.
Initial review of iPhone
Flip video
Gridskipper - Google maps mashups
TCP Hildo essay Rethinking local government structure
Crybaby Voinovich can't handle simple questions from Hannity.
Watch Your Foodometer
Grassroots Gardening

San Fermin Wikipedia article
San Fermin Web site

Inhabitat
DEAN KOONTZ Answers Your Questions--Part I
DEAN KOONTZ Answers Your Questions--Part II
Bush's spectrum boss shouts down network neutrality supporters

Foxmarks

Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace
Odds Given on iPhone Failure
New Journalist Program

Factoid about new movie (Jun 22, 2007) "1408"
Stephen King never intended on finishing the short story that this movie was based upon; it was part of an appendix in his nonfiction book On Writing. In the preface to the story published in the compilation "Everything's Eventual," King says that he wrote the first three or four pages as an example of draft evolution, then was "seduced" into finishing it.

Discourse DB ... interview
Zack Exley
The Echo Chamber Project
Blog rating
Newt Gingrich of American Solutions attempts to ‘rewrites 9/11 history
Florida Progressive Coalition

Toledo Web design companies:

Only two new car dealerships in Toledo, Brondes and Charlies? Most are in the burbs because Toledo has an inventory tax?

Ludwig von Mises Institute
Google Public Policy

Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America

events:

Toledo hostel
The Wealth of Networks

A couple sites powered by MediaWiki software:

How the Presidents Stack Up
Web 2.0 interview/presentation
Online Map Craze Helps People Visualize Data
lcrp eo google cache

Ron Paul opposes Gold Medal for Reagan

I must, however, oppose the Gold Medal for Ronald and Nancy Reagan because appropriating $30,000 of taxpayer money is neither constitutional nor, in the spirit of Ronald Reagan's notion of the proper, limited role for the federal government. To me, it seemed a particularly good opportunity to demonstrate one's genuine convictions by spending one's own money rather that of the taxpayers who remain free to contribute, at their own discretion, to commemorate the work of the Reagans. It is, of course, very easy to be generous with the people's money.

Blackwater Heavies Sue Families of Slain Employees for $10 Million in Brutal Attempt to Suppress Their Story
Ron Paul's Speech on House Floor
Wiki Creole
WaPo Local Explorer
World Changing
Blackwater
LiveDeal
Do Obama and Lieberman think the internet is dangerous?
http://www.ross.ws
10 obvious things about the future of newspapers you need to get through your head
Medill offers journalism scholarships to programmer/developers
Honda Civic VX hatchback discussion
Scenes Through the Eye of Google

Things to investigate :

Johnsongrass - I use glyphosate (Razor Pro is cheapest) in my yard to kill clumps of Johnson grass that seeds into my lawn grass. I take a two liter bottle and cut it in half. The half that has the bottle neck is put around my backpack sprayer nozzel. I walk around from clump to clump and don't worry about overspray. The area with the Johnson grass is killed while yard grass is not.

Reddit passwords
Reddit hacked

The man who owns the Internet - making fortunes by owning domain names
oqo 2
Stokes Birding Series
Ron Paul article

Mashups - Low-barrier, high-velocity integration

Ubuntu Linux Vs. Windows Vista: The Battle For Your Desktop
S & G Endeavors
MAPLight.org
Web Mashups Turn Citizens Into Washington's Newest Watchdogs
Triblocal

dkos tagging :

50% Good News Is the Bad News in Russian Radio

Cracks in the House of Rove

1990 Shadyside Flash Flood :

Severe Weather in Ohio
Coastal Ohio
BrasilWiki
Suite Two
News future is tied to the Web
Harnessing High Altitude Wind Power
France: Vive Les Nukes
Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning?
How a Small Newspaper Won a Big Award
BostonNOW
Blogger's Code of Conduct

http://unionfacts.com/
http://consumerfreedom.com/

http://www.venturacountystar.com/vcs/business/article/0,1375,VCS_128_5456730,00.html
http://www.toledofreepress.com/?id=5258

Ballhype
Ban the Bulb?

I got a really interesting book called “Ernest Hemingway on Writing.” I’ve given about 100 of those away. I find that if you’re stuck on a story, you can just read around in there and find something that jump-starts you. So, it’s useful. I’m not sure what the magic is, but it seems to work for everybody that I give it to.

http://www.zaadz.com/
The future of UserLand
Linux Makes For Greener Computing
Backfence.com woes - Down And Out In The 'Burbs'
How to Save Newspapers
Mitch Kapor vs. Mark Zuckerberg
Hamilton County Planning and Zoning
Blogs can top the presses
web 3.0 when web sites become web services
scrappy small-town journalism
dKosopedia
Conservapedia
MyMilitaryClassifieds.com
George Orwell - Politics and the English Language
Instant Beer Freeze - YouTube video
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/3/4/135310/0946
http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/porting.html
Port80 - Real-Time Compression Check
Gapminder
Squaw Valley Community of Writers

Movie: Amazing Grace - Release Date: February 23rd, 2007 (limited)

William Wilberforce led efforts as a member of Parliament in 18th-century England to end slavery and the slave trade in the British empire. Wilberforce was elected to the House of Commons at 21 and took on the issue of slavery, successfully assembling a diverse coalition that went up against the most powerful men of the time.

Over the Rhine - KB

SQL Injection Cheat Sheet
MySpace Impact - politics
Citizen Tube - politics
Global Warming: Moving Towards Metrosexualshttp
SXSW - Where old and new media collide
Advomatic
Discover the Network
Charity Navigator
Toledo Better Business Bureau
Triangle.com Community Sharing - operated by the Raleigh (North Carolina) News & Observer
The 50 Most Important People on the Web
Rob Curley - Lawrence, Naples, WaPo - tech dude working with media

Filson Mackinaw Coats

Knight Citizen News Network is an initiative of J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism, a center of the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism. It is funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

Chi-Town Daily News : Features original daily reports from a cadre of local journalism students (the "Medill News Service"), plus citizen reporters and bloggers, as well as a photo gallery, sports podcast, and other creative uses of online media, has one especially cool interface trick: The home page features a "neighborhood report" box -- a Google Map that links to specific current local stories.

Wikinomics

Site with pleasing colors

Argument/Debate sites

http://www.wikicreole.org/wiki/Elements
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Markup_Language
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Ideal

SocialMoth
Couchville
2008 Race Tracker
satirical publication created in New Orleans
Globe and Mail forum tips
Council on Foreign Relations
Progress and Freedom Foundation
Google maps shows traffic conditions
Hope Is Emo: Chapter One 'The Words Are Dying'
BEK Designs - local web design company
Secrecy News - from the Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy
Microsoft creates Digg-like sites in Norway and Belgium
Yahoo! Suggestion Boards digg-style
The Failure of We (the) Media - But, like nearly every News 2.0 venture so far, Dan's Bayosphere was a failure.
Groupvine
Google Moon
Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us
The Mommy Blog
My thoughts on mathematics
Top Ten Lessons I’ve Learned About Managing an Online Forum - digg discussion
2007 Recent Changes Camp
CSS layouts
Local bloggers are the future - Daily Kos posting about the influence of local political bloggers.
Starting a Software Company Outside a Startup Hub - The startup "hubs" are in order: Silicon Valley, Boston, Seattle, Austin, Denver, and New York.
Truth in Advertising
Poems-for-All - poems on business cards
Ward Six - literary blog
MediaWiki user's guide's_Guide
Rye Reflections - Independent monthly website is part of citizen-journalism movement
Enthusiast Group
Useless Account
Are you watching this - sports site
CitMedia Sites are Here to Stay
Cake PHP
Web Developers: 13 Command Line Tricks You Might Not Know
Planet Perl blog
Netscape developer
Flixster
Digg employee blog
Edwards compound another story
Molly Ivins Tribute ........ Texas Observer
Yahoo! Our City
Top Digg User Interviewed About Digg Removing Top Users List
Atlassian
Coworking
Active Media Architects, Inc
Interactive Raven "Interactive Raven," a look at the vocabulary and literary devices in Edgar Allan Poe's famous poem, The Raven.
10 Shopping Tricks That Stores Hate
Conservatism is Dead, and it's Not Coming Back (Daily Kos)
The 2007-2008 GOP Scandal Treasure Map... (Daily Kos)
MyClaySun - hyper-local newspaper site
Milk meets Coffee
real-world postgresql vs mysql benchmark
Firefox extensions discussion
Dojo - the javascript toolkit
OpenID
Yahoo! Developer Network
WordPress “File-based Posts” Plugin v1.04

Rawganique - hemp products
Craigslist anomaly
McDonald's Tops Starbucks in Coffee Taste Test
Interview with Wikipedia Admin
Zoho Wiki
YouTube clone script
The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines
scaling data on the cheap
the D Programming language
Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman
Open Source Networking products
Fatherly Advice To New Programmers
A Linux distribution where ALL programs are written in perl.
Find Lisp blog
media 2.0 workgroup
Do The Right Thing
Open Document Plugin for Word 97-2007 proves Microsoft wrong
Cincinnati Subway
MorePerfect.org
TPS report card stats 2002-2006
ProductWiki
Amapedia
Citizendium
CapitolAlert.com
Electrolicious
USAJobs.org
object-oriented programming
Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple And Fast
Wikio
Paper Prototyping
Decentralized Information Group
Reader Mini - Google Reader alternative for portables
'Deconstructing the newspaper' January 18, 2006 Toledo Talk thread
Smalltown
Scratch - new programming language that lets you create your own interactive stories, games, music, and art.
too many starbucks
Wikiseek
Ma.gnolila.com
Pageflakes
Mullings
Netvibes
The Top Social Networks of 2006
DailySource.org
HeadwatersNews.org
SimplyHeadlines.com
Sunlight Priorities 2007
John McCain’s War On Blogs
15 Best Places to Waste Time on the Web
Never store passwords in a database!
Fun eye test
Border Fence Firm Snared for Hiring Illegal Workers
The coming collapse and rebirth of newspaper journalism
Web Boom 2.0 - Is it different this time?
Search Wikia
memcached
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/
Penguin Batting 323.4 207.6
http://www.jacksonpollock.org/ - Art flash animation

Sunlight Priorities 2007

1.) Contemporaneous online filing. The currently required public reports required of lawmakers should be filed electronically and shared online within 24 hours of their filing.

2.) Ending secret legislation. All earmarks, bills, and amendments should include an identification of the proposing Member's name. All non-emergency legislation should be posted online, in its final form, at least 72 hours before a vote.

3.) Meaningful lobbyist disclosure. All who are paid to engage in direct issue advocacy with lawmakers and their staff should be required to register, and all registered lobbyists should disclose all legislative contacts, all legislation and regulations discussed, all contributions they make and coordinate to Members and organizations affiliated with members, all prior government employment, and any relationship to a current Member of Congress, staff member, or executive branch employee. All lobbyist reports should be filed online within 24 hours of any meeting or contribution.

Sunlight Priorities Drafting Wiki located at another Sunlight Foundation project : MorePerfect.org .

Dec 14, 2006 NY Times editorial titled Congress and the Benefits of Sunshine :

The Web is increasingly wielded by both campaign donors and bloggers clicking and tapping as wannabe muckrakers. Politicians would be wise to catch up. Local citizens were enlisted to track pork-barrel abuses in the last campaign by a new watchdog organization, the Sunlight Foundation, which enlisted Ms. Gillibrand’s disclosure pledge. It aims to have voters use the Internet as an engine of political information.

McCain’s War On Blogs

John McCain has made clear that he doesn’t like the blogosphere.

Now he has introduced legislation that would treat blogs like Internet service providers and hold them responsible for all activity in the comments sections and user profiles. Some highlights of the legislation :

– Commercial websites and personal blogs “would be required to report illegal images or videos posted by their users or pay fines of up to $300,000.”

– Internet service providers (ISPs) are already required to issue such reports, but under McCain’s legislation, bloggers with comment sections may face “even stiffer penalties” than ISPs.

— Social networking sites will be forced to take “effective measures” — such as deleting user profiles — to remove any website that is “associated” with a sex offender. Sites may include not only Facebook and MySpace, but also Amazon.com, which permits author profiles and personal lists, and blogs like DailyKos, which allows users to sign up for personal diaries.

15 Web Time Wasters

Cincy Theatre
Know Theatre
Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
Gompers by Adam Rapp
Stone Cold Dead Serious: And Other Plays by Adam Rapp
"Blackbird" a play and movie by Adam Rapp
"Winter Passing" movie by Adam Rapp

too many starbucks

If you stand on the corner of Regent Street and Wigmore Street in central London, you are within five miles of 164 branches of Starbucks. Starbucks is a long-time practitioner of clustering, whereby the chain opens outlets so close to each other that it ends up cannibalising its own business. At first glance, this doesn't seem to make any business sense. "But that's because they're in it for the long game, which is market share," says Andrew Simms, of the New Economics Foundation, which has published reports condemning the "cloning" of the British high street. In other words, cannibalisation is worth it, if the overall effect is to solidify your position as the first name anyone thinks of when they think of coffee.

Like Wal-Mart. Starbucks is the Wal-Mart of coffee shops. Starbucks's goal is to bury other coffee shops and to make sure that nearly every cup of coffee you drink outside of the home or office is from Starbucks.

“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.” - Plato.

http://www.mindtouch.com/

Wikinomics
Digg.com built on a $200.00 investment

Thanks to the Futon Report for the heads to this Fark posting about the Photoshopping of Patriots CB Asante Samuel who mocked the Chargers by dancing on the field after the Patriots victory.

Helium community site. Review

Helium hopes to be a knowledge oriented community which is not full of just hot air. About, Yahoo Answers & Wikipedia All Rolled Into One.

Google Apps for Your Domain

Google Apps for Your Domain lets you offer private-labeled email, instant messaging and calendar accounts to all of your users, so they can share ideas and work more effectively.

TT 4th B-day

Toledo Talk begins four years ago this minute, 11:38 P.M. EST, January 17, 2003.

created by jr on Dec 14, 2006 at 07:19:37 pm
updated by jr on Oct 30, 2007 at 12:14:37 am     Comments: 0

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