Quit spending so much time commenting on BFD and go to Pittsburgh to find out why they got $1B in investment and Cleveland didn’t:

Last year, the research corridor near Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh attracted about $1 billion in public and private funding, twice the amount of five years ago.

“Pittsburgh was hit harder than any other American city in the change from an industrial economy to the new economy,'’ says Don Smith, vice president for economic development at the Mellon Pitt Corp., a partnership coordinating research at the schools…

Bloomberg.com: U.S.

• Team NEO Board Strengthened
  “The addition of these new trustees clearly advances our Mission: Uniting the Region to Accelerate Business Growth.” A GM, a VP, and a Managing Partner. Explain how that’s “uniting the region?”
  (tags: leadership)
• Slot machine opponents begin airing TV ads
  (tags: ohiolearnandearn)

A good name for it, because that’s what I mean it to be. If your want your feed added or removed, please contact me. It’s actually a pretty cool tool. AJAX, PHP, and MySQL. Create a login for yourself. That let’s you keep track of what you’ve read, flag it and tag it.
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A link from Rob Hawkins:

Shapiro says he is “fascinated” by what he calls the “community voice. The reason I invented rosetimes is that there are so many people in this world with important things to say, but who will never be invited into mainstream media. Their ideas are worth hearing, and the most powerful way for them to express their ideas is in video form, via interviews with each other.

“My highest hope is that the community voice will start drowning out the shoutfests on television. If people start turning off their televisions and listening more to each other, then I know I’ve done my job. We can only reach understanding when we listen to each other a lot more.”

Thoughts?

NewsForge | The Internet is for interviews

WOW. Most people never carve a pumpkin like Rob Hawkin’s wife did on her first attempt.

Jack O’Lantern（コンテストに応募してみよう）ー3ー — NeoHAWK

This isn’t a reminder to vote on 11/7, though that’s a good idea. The purpose of this post is to encourage you to use the voting system I set up here on BFD. Help me by providing feedback on the posts you like/don’t.

Also, please remember that BFD is open to anyone who take the time to sign up to be an author. But BFD won’t just write itself. If you’re a contributor, by all mean, login and post something. Anything!

With jokes about how we do elections:

Six years ago the world watched dumbfounded as the Florida 2000 fiasco exposed the messy underbelly of U.S. election administration. Since then states have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on new electronic voting equipment to ensure that the nation would never experience such mishaps again.

But two recent and lengthy reports examining this year’s May primary in Cuyahoga County, Ohio — a pivotal state where the electoral votes gave President Bush his second win in 2004 — make it clear that Florida-like fiascos are far from behind us.

The reports, totaling more than 500 pages, paint a disturbing picture of how million-dollar equipment and security safeguards can quickly be undone by poor product design, improper election procedures and inadequate training. From destroyed ballots and vote totals that didn’t add up to lost equipment and breaches in security protocols, Cuyahoga’s primary is a perfect study in how not to run an election…

Wired News: Ohio Election Portends Trouble

Not once, but twice today have people contact me about taking down photos. Flickr allows you to specify whether you’ll allow people to do this:

Specifying who can blog your public photos will hide the “Blog This” button from anyone who doesn’t have permission.

Flickr also lets you specify a creative commons license. If you use that and think someone’s violating your license, you probably should mention it…

Flickr: Who can blog your photos?