From the monthly archives: May 2007

NC HB1587 is still bad

By On May 31, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Yesterday the NC House Utility Committee [excel file of emails] meet and discussed HB 1587, “The Local Government Fair Competition Act”. Turns out lots of people showed up and spoke in favor and against the bill. So the committee vote was delayed until Wednesday June 6 at 10am. Here is a synopsis of the [...]

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Library Thing

By On May 30, 2007 · Leave a Comment

I just learned about the neat book cataloging site Library Thing. I love how it grabs book info from so many sources. Who knew that the UNC Libraries allow external websites to grab data! Yeah UNC! The person who showed me the site today said that it works with the Duke library but the [...]

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Google Maps Street View

By On May 29, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Uh… wow… this is pretty cool. Warning video contains super geek in orange spandex! Check Street View out for yourself.

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Wilson, NC builds fiber network and fights HB1587

By On May 29, 2007 · Leave a Comment

I found this cool blog called The Fiber Optic Files – Wilson, NC today. Its written by Brian Bowman, the Public Affairs Manager for the City of Wilson. He linked to my post about the bad bill NC HB 1587. From there I learned more about the fiber network Wilson is constructing [...]

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What are people Twittering about?

By On May 27, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Maybe Tweet Volume can help answer this question. What are people Twittering about?

Some more questions… Are these answers valuable? How accurate are they? How do we display the change that comes about over of time?

Hat tip to Biz on the Twitter blog.

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Listening to “Spirits in the Material World”

By On May 27, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Got my record player hooked back up. The first album I randomly selected to listen to was The Police’s Ghost in the Machine. The first song Spirits in the Material World strikes a cord with me. Here are the lyrics.

There is no political solution
To our troubled evolution
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Why you should care about the Carrboro Citizen

By On May 25, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Jock Lauterer has a straight to the point bit of witting in this weeks Carrboro Citizen called Why we should support our hometown newspaper. My fav part:

So why is this new paper special? How is it different from the others? And why should you care about whether The Citizen fails or [...]

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$599 Dell laptop with Ubuntu

By On May 25, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Yep. A pretty dang good deal. Dell laptop with Ubuntu for sale. I think this is a wonderful deal for non-profits. There is little reason left now for NGOs to be shackled to Microsoft products.

Hat tip to Justin.

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Bora got a job at PLoS

By On May 24, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Congratulations Bora Zivkovic! He got a job at the Public Library of Science by applying from his blog and getting a ton of recommendations in the comments. Paul Jones put it best,
He got his job in an unusual way; he used his blog and his social networks to provide recommendations. [...]

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Stop NC HB 1587: Prevent Big Telecom from killing Muni WiFi

By On May 24, 2007 · 1 Comment

As I write this NC HB 1587 is before the Utilities Committee for consideration. Big Telecommunications companies want to prevent democratically elected bodies from bringing broadband Internet access to everyone.

Please ask your NC state Rep to vote No or ask their colleague to vote No!

Here is a Microsoft Excel document [...]

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