September 2009
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Drinking beer with a purpose, a civic purpose that...
Lot’s of talk regarding this little issue of the public servant sector moving forward with utilizing a more social web. Where I think we lose ground is by attaching the proprietary names of Twitter and Facebook. Try to think concepts and not solutions just yet. I hate when peeps try to force the square block through the circle hole. Just getting on Facebook is not the answer. In fact I...
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The City is my new favorite search engine
I just got done (well I have about 40 more pages to go) with the futuristic sci-fi novel by Vernor Vinge Rainbows End. I was prompted to read this novel when I posted my intrigue regarding the augmented reality feature of the Yelp iPhone application, by my buddy Greg Bahr. I don’t usually read the sci-fi genre of books, but I was pleasantly surprised with the tight plot structure and swift...
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Where is the conversation?
First and foremost, a shout to my fellow blogging gang homey, @slickdiaz, who shouted out the brewery33 voice over on his turf. He fights the good fight of intellectualism while staying fresh with brevity. If I am giving props to one of the Stockton peeps then I can’t leave out the one and only @podcaststockton. Matt puts an actual voice to the plight of “most miserable” City...
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Stay searchable in 2009
Think of Twitter as a loud room where a bunch of self centered people are incessantly updating us about the trials and tribulations of their otherwise boring lives. As we have all read, the Twitter community has the doors wide open and people are filling the room at a break neck pace. With more people filing into the already acoustically challenged space, the conversation becomes muffled and...
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Movie night, take two
It’s movie night folks. I have finally talked my co-owner of my profitless micro-microbrewery to let me engage in another movie night. This month will be special because we will have some of @brewery33’s wares to taste. I will not promise that the beer will be out of this world, as we have only recently re-taken up the hobby, but I will say that it will probably get you drunk. Our...