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Sunday, May 16th, 2010Very interesting PHD proposal coming up Monday at the iSchool on cyberprotests today. We have a growing public space, the Internet where it is tough if not impossible to protest other peoples websites. In meat space it is easy to protest outside a Walmart or the Deans Office, but how do you protest Amazon or [...]
Supreme Court Commission Assessment Project: Day 2
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010Today I am at day two of the Washington State Supreme Court Boards and Commissions Visioning Process. During the first day of the committee, we did not make a lot of progress, but It looks like that will change. The project as been basically restarted with significantly more focus and direction. This first meeting is [...]
MOMA Interactive Peoples Choice
Friday, May 7th, 2010Check out MoMA Popart an interactive way to explore 198 MoMA paintings. I have been to MoMA several times in the last few years and this flash based website (I usually hate flash!) is more fun in several ways the visiting the actual museum. You can browse by tags and create your own collection of [...]
Road to Master: Endgame Books
Monday, May 3rd, 2010Finding good endgame books to study is tough. There are a lot of useless endgame books out there that cover esoteric position you will never see in a real game. There are also a lot of endgame books that do nothing to explain what is going on. They will simply have long strings of moves [...]
Speed Geek Talks @ Jigsaw Renaissance: June 5th
Thursday, April 29th, 2010Flash Talks coming soon! What: Ten five minute talks on a wide variety of subjects in an hour When: Saturday, June 5th at 5pm Presenters – this is your opportunity to float new ideas or get help and feedback on a project. It’s also a great opportunity to test out your elevator pitch without having to prepare [...]
Ignite Seattle is Looking for Speakers
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010Within an hour of posting my updated goals list I was pinged that Seattle Ignite is now accepting speakers /cheer . The next Ignite Seattle is going to be June 14th! I hope to see people there.
@JR’s New Space / JR Needs a Kitchen
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010The new JR space is amazing it is right on Madison across from Virginia Mason. Apparently Virginia Mason owns the space and really likes having a community based center at the locations and thus is giving them a very reasonable deal on rent. There is street access right on Madison and the people here are [...]
Goals! Sharing for Success P.2
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010It has been about a week and a half since my last goals post. Overall this is working well, I am making a lot of progress on stuff I have been meaning to do for too long (with only two failures). Time to update and see where to go next. Short term goals: 1. Visit [...]
1st Amendment Tote Bag @ Archie McPhee
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010Sarah and I were out buying eyes this morning for a how to blog training she is doing later today and I came across the coolest tote bag: They are for sale at Archie McPhee one of the coolest stores around!
Bad Website Design: World Chess Championship Site
Monday, April 26th, 2010Quick rant on a really bad website: anand-topalov.com My problems with the website: Link named Information… is not the whole site information The Information link takes you to a blank page… (well technically the page has 5 small links that I dis not notice the first 2 times at the site) The copyright policy tells [...]
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