Or so they tell me.

ERIE COUNTY: LEVEL 3 EMERGENCY — ONLY EMERGENCY VEHICLES ARE ALLOWED ON THE ROADS. … THE VERMILION POLICE DEPARTMENT IS REQUESTING THAT ANY VERMILION RESIDENT WHO OWNS A 4-WHEEL DRIVE VEHICLE OR A SNOWMOBILE AND WOULD LIKE TO VOLUNTEER HIS/HER TIME, CALL (440) 967-6116.

Now, that sounds like a fun County! The drive from Akron to West Park in my Xterra was a blast! Most of it through the CVNP. Can’t wait to take Anna’s youngest out tomorrow for a little 4WD fun on the side streets. Too bad they had to close BM/BW. Nothing like some Spring POW! POW! And in Ohio…who would have thunk that?

MyFox Cleveland | List County Snow Emergencies

Got a pitch for a new business venture? Now you have a place online to make it and this startup appears to have some heavy hitters behind it. If Cleveland/NEO is going to make a name for itself in technology and innovation, let’s start getting pitches uploaded here!

Vator.TV is a new business-to-business site that provides entrepreneurs with a platform to make an on-camera pitch for funding. Peter Thiel, a founder of PayPal is another investor in the company.

MySpace Ex-Chief Funds Bambi Francisco’s Vator.TV

While reading about Vator.TV I also learned about this cool new venture for those without a pitch, but who want to build their own “personal channel”:

The release of premium names on May 1st was timed in conjunction with the introduction of www.me.tv, the first integrated suite of proprietary social media tools that allows anyone to own, program, and share their own personal video-centric website with social networking features and content completely controlled by them.

Here’s a link to the Press Release.

An interesting thought…on business surveys why do they keep asking where your place of business is located (enter your zip code here)? I always want to enter the “Internet” as my answer.

We have all the elements we need to compete.

From a C|Net series:

At USC, developing game coders
Interactive design blooms in NYU hallways

Remapping the Cuyahoga Valley? Cleveland? Akron? Youngstown?

In the current, initial phase of Remapping LA, students enrolled in UCLA’s Engaged Media Workshop fan out from a 19th-century ice factory near Chinatown, armed with advanced mobile phones, GPS devices, digital cameras and geographic information systems, to compile a database of photos, maps, videos and audio recordings that, when combined with historical material, will provide a comprehensive profile of the legendary Los Angeles State Historic Park, an incongruous tract of open land near the city’s first center.

UCLA’s Virtual Pioneers: Remapping Los Angeles

Web 3.0 has been something I’ve been thinking a lot about lately. Following is a definition I stumbled on and wanted to share. I know what George is thinking, “I’d be happy if we could just get more people around here to start using Web 2.0 tools like blogs, podcasts, etc.” Agreed!

Web 1.0 was primarily about pages and URLs. It was also about sloppy HTML and flash entry pages. The focus was on look and experience in the browser rather than content.

Web 2.0 is about user participation. But it’s also about a shift in focus from wild colors animations and design to simple, clean code and well-organized, tagged, searchable content.

Web 3.0 — as Mr. Scoble calls it — is about discreet chunks of content presenting themselves in various ways. It’s about freeing up that content to be viewed on multiple devices and found in a variety of ways. It’s about developing a standard markup language for content that is easily understood by computers and by humans like microformats.

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