From the monthly archives: May 2010

Local Business, Google & Chapel Hill

By On May 26, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Here’s video of the Google press conference in Chapel Hill that occurred May 25. Thanks to the folks at RTP for capturing this. AGAIN they provided more detailed coverage than the local media.

He’s the link to the Google Economic Impact info. This is the PDF of data for North Carolina.

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The face and future

By On May 25, 2010 · 1 Comment

Internet search giant Google held a official press conference in downtown Chapel Hill, North Carolina today. You can read more about it in these news stories.
Herald-Sun
News and Observer
Triangle Business Journal

If I may I’d like to add a bit of personal commentary to this [...]

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VW Diesel Golf 1986

By On May 20, 2010 · Leave a Comment

http://raleigh.craigslist.org/cto/1747161314.html

A friend of a friend is selling this diesel VW. I haven’t seen it or driven it. But it looks cool. Run biodiesel!

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Energy Ted talk by Richard Sears

By On May 20, 2010 · Leave a Comment

About this talk
As the world’s attention focuses on the perils of oil exploration, we present Richard Sears’ talk from early February 2010. Sears, an expert in developing new energy resources, talks about our inevitable and necessary move away from oil. Toward … what?

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RIP Ronnie James Dio

By On May 17, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Goodbye Rocker!

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Ring of Fire Voodoo Style

By On May 17, 2010 · Leave a Comment

One day before I die I must sing this song in front of a lot of people. If I did it would probably come out like the Wall of Voodoo version. (You know them. They did that song Mexican Radio.)

Believe it or not I’m kinda a purist about this song. [...]

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The Unleashing

By On May 16, 2010 · Leave a Comment

More on our transition town unconference soon.

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Yellow Cargo Bikes

By On May 11, 2010 · 3 Comments

When i was in Mexico last I saw these yellow tricycles everywhere. They where used for all kinds of street vending. I wondered what models they where. Just a bit of googling later and I discover the word Mercurio on a yellow frame. It looks like Mercurio sells the Triciclo de Carga.

Then [...]

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web 3.0 a doc by Kate Ray

By On May 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Web 3.0 from Kate Ray on Vimeo.

A story about the Semantic Web

Interviews with:
Tim Berners-Lee
Clay Shirky
Chris Dixon
David Weinberger
Nova Spivack
Jason Shellen
Lee Feigenbaum
John Hebeler
Alon Halevy
David Karger
Abraham Bernstein

Thanks to

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Social Networking Software Alternatives

By On May 8, 2010 · 2 Comments

I haven’t tried all this software yet. So I can’t endorse it exactly… But when I do give it a shot I’ll write a review. I hope to add more to this list as I find them.

OneSocialWeb The purpose of onesocialweb is to enable free, open, and decentralized social applications on the web. [...]

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