It’s a good thing Steve showed up today and is letting me use his laptop. The WiFi @ CASE is making it happen. There’s a group of us here in 02 talking about Sustainability here in Cleveland. There’s people from NEO Bio, Hotel Bruce, Entrepreneurs for Sustainability, and Sustainable Cleveland talking about all of the action going on around the issue. Maybe next week you’d like to join us?
Another month, another mention of our metropolis in Otis White’s newsletter:
“Here’s an easy question: Who owns the sidewalk in front of your house? If you say the city owns it, it’s clear you don’t live in Cleveland. There, property owners are responsible for the sidewalks, and when the city repairs them it sends the owners a bill. Not surprisingly, many are not pleased to learn that they are the proud owners of a sidewalk. Take Nick Biel, who recently got a bill for $960 for repairs. ‘Everybody thought the sidewalks and curbs were the city’s (responsibility), because that’s what we pay taxes for,’ he said. That attitude (it’s the city’s sidewalk, not mine) is so widespread that the city is, by stages, doing just what Biel wants: Taking responsibility for the sidewalks. Since the 1970s, the city has set aside money to pay for some of the repairs. Today, the government pays roughly half the cost to fix your (repeat: your) sidewalk. This is so important to city council members, who get an earful from constituents when sidewalk bills are sent out, that they threatened recently to vote down Mayor Jane Campbell’s proposed $27.4 million bond issue because it didn’t have any money for sidewalk repairs. The mayor got the message: There’s now $2.1 million for sidewalks in the bond issue. “
On a positive note, he does mention the Civic Innovation Lab.
I’m not sure if I catagorize Sterling as a humorist:
“Some technologies are so blatantly obnoxious that the human race would rejoice if they were summarily executed. A humorist and science fiction writer offers some candidates.”
I’m down with 9 of them, but DVD deserving to die is pushing it.
Michael asked for feedback on a project of his. It kicked of a discussion and I’m linking the title of this post to a comment by a poet who recently returned to Cleveland. Check it out.
Jack looked at me like I was crazy when I mentioned using a satelitte dish for WiFi access in areas that don’t have it:
“While it’s not uncommon for rural communities to tinker with Wi-Fi Internet access, Beaufort has taken Wi-Fi in a whole new direction: Rather than offer the service in a building, the school equipped a van with a satellite dish and 20 Wi-Fi-enabled laptop computers to bring the Internet to students.”
Thanks John for bringing this to my attention:
“Listen for Eric on WCPN Next Tuesday at Noon. In my never-ending quest to keep putting bloggers and blogging on the local media map in slow, steady and sustainable fashion, I gave some thought recently to a simple question: who’s the best, smartest and most probing media interviewer in Cleveland? The answer presented itself almost as soon as the question was formed: why, Ideastream’s Dee Perry of course. Long a staple for her unhurried, gracious interviews on WCPN’s Around Noon show, you may have grown to like her for the charity of her tone, for the way you can hear that big splitting smile in her voice. More recently, with the entry of the Ideastream merger of WCPN and WVIZ, she also gets in some face time on the equally good Applause TV show.Anyway, I figured that we ought to pitch Dee on interviewing a blogger or bloggers. But in doing a bit of background prep before calling her with that suggestion, I found out that she’d already beaten me to the idea. A week from tomorrow, Tuesday the 30th of September, Dee is scheduled to have our boy Eric Olsen of megasite Blogcritics and the microsite Clev-Blog on After Noon. Do make sure to tune that in. As anyone who was at the May Blogfest knows only too well, his verbal pyrotechnics are well worth the price of admission.”
Funny. Eric didn’t mention it @ Taco Tuesday. I’ll have to call in with a question about blogging.
That rabblerouser Kenn Louis linked me this article. I guess I don’t read many of the “best” bloggers, but Eric and Dawn speak highly of J Glenn Reynolds, so I paid particular attention to his advice:”
A-ha! Just the excuse I’ve been looking for to buy that camera.
It was a busy week for the Creative Cleveland Coalition. Thursday was the Task Force meeting at Karamu. I have to confess, it was the first time I’d ever been to that Cleveland landmark of culture. C3 met before the 3:30 Task Force meeting, and had a lively conversation about funding and the Creative Commmunity in general. You can check out the notes I posted to the Yahoo Group here. I think Megan and Julie did a good job presenting models of funding from 10 different locals. There were more people attending this meeting and sharing there opinions to the Task Force in addition to Thomas presenting our notes from the meeting beforehand.
Friday, was the Cultural Roundtable at SPACES Gallery. It’s quite a gathering of representatives from the cultural institutions around the area. In both cases, there’s a lack of creative individuals representing themselves. I’m sure Cuyahoga County Commissioners Jimmy Dimora and Tim McCormick were impressed when they walked into the room. Being a Lake County resident and someone not prone to politics, it was the first time I’d seen either one in action. I like Commissioner McCormick’s style. I can relate to his blue-color upbringing and the fact that he churns about making decisions. My advice to Commission Dimora is, leave the stump speech at home. I thought he was much more approachable during the Q&A then while he was orating. I’ll leave you Creative Cleveland individuals with a plea to get involved with C3 and words from Commission McCormick:
“Stop waiting around for Commissioners, Mayors, Poobahs, and Bushwackers. Be strong yourselves. Talk to the community, build your own momentum.”
On Thursday, Yahoo changed their protocol in an effort to prevent spammers. As a result, Trillian’s connectivity is also affected. You may get a crash in Yahoo.dll or an Invalid Login error when connecting to the Yahoo Messenger network. Cerulean Studios is working on a solution for this problem and will post an update here when a fix is available.
If Trillian crashes when you load it, preventing you from shutting off your Yahoo autoconnect, follow these steps:
* Close Trillian. Locate your Yahoo.ini file. Press Windows-F or click your Start Button then Search -> All files and folders -> Yahoo.ini. If you can’t find it this way, look in C:\Program Files\Trillian\Users\Default or the Trillian Settings directory under your current user’s C:\Documents and Settings folder.
* Edit the file by double-clicking or opening it in Notepad. Replace all occurences of ‘auto connect=1′ with ‘auto connect=0′ and save the file. Now reload Trillian and it won’t try to autoconnect to Yahoo, which causes the crash.
Good thing I’ve got three other ways you can IM me.
Saturday October 4th
4:00 to 6:00 p.m.- free!
Orlikowski Manor
6502 Chambers at E. 65th
Featuring:
Kristin Ohlson
Vince Robinson
Kathy Walker
J. Scott Franklin
Christina Vernon & Carl Wendorff
Michael Ceraolo
Denise Dee
Broadview
and more to be announced….
St. Stan’s Polish Festival will be going on that whole weekend, so there will be a lot of good food and polkaing available right arond the corner.
I dig SynthCleveland’s new look.
Looks like I’m not the only one who thinks Daylight Savings Time isn’t the greatest idea:
“[A]study of traffic accidents throughout Canada in 1991 and 1992 by Stanley Coren of the University of British Columbia before, during, and immediately after the so-called ’spring forward’ when DST begins in April. Alarmingly, he found an eight percent jump in traffic accidents on the Monday after clocks are moved ahead. He attributes the jump to the lost hour of sleep. In a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine, Coren explained, ‘These data show that small changes in the amount of sleep that people get can have major consequences in everyday activities.’ He undertook the study as a follow up to research showing that even an hour’s change can disrupt sleep patterns and ‘persist for up to five days after each time shift.’ Other observers attribute the huge spike in accidents on the first Monday of DST to the sudden change in the amount of light during driving times. Regardless of the reason, there is no denying that changing our clocks has a significant cost in human lives.”
It would be cool to have a Cleveland artist in this show:
Announcing the fifth edition of the competition on ‘art and artificial life’ sponsored by the Telefonica Foundation in Madrid. We are looking for outstanding electronic art projects employing techniques such as digital genetics, autonomous robotics, recursive chaotic algorithms, knowbots, computer viruses, embodied artificial intelligence, avatars, evolving behaviours and virtual ecosystems.An international jury — Daniel Canogar, Chris Csikszentmihalyi, Machiko Kusahara, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Jane Prophet and Nell Tenhaaf — will grant four cash awards totaling 20,000 Euros.
The competition’s website has the guidelines, application form, and information on the previous award-winners, including texts, videos, images and links.
Deadline: Friday, October 31, 2003.
This guy is getting a little silly with the byMarcusTM. Not to mention he doesn’t know how to set the height on the div element in the template of his blog…
Added Todd Emery to the NEO Blogroll:
“These are the perils and prosperities of a twenty-three year old man’s life as he navigates it through Cleveland, Ohio. “
Found it on the Weblogs page at Cleveland.com.
Maybe there’s hope for the Madstone in Coventry?
Digital media evangelist Mark Cuban — the serial entrepreneur behind Broadcast.com (sold to Yahoo!), HDNet, and owner of the Dallas Mavericks — just bought Landmark Theatres. Cuban and longtime business partner Todd Wagner purchased the chain for an undisclosed sum, and say digital projection systems will eventually be introduced in an effort to influence every aspect of filmmaking, from production to display.
I was poking around waypath and got goosebumps when I realize how powerfully cool it is:
What is it?Waypath is an attempt to network the weblog community, connecting weblogs that share common themes, ideas, and topics.
How does it work?
Waypath’s Related Weblog Navigation engine analyzes weblog entries to determine their core conceptual makeups, compares them with one another to find out how related they are, and presents you with its best guess as to what’s related to your original input. This is done all automatically, using available technology.
Want to find other blogs that are posting on topics similiar to you? Plug your URL into WayPath. Filter out the blogs you know. You’re left with blogs that share common thoughts. Best of all, do a search, then save it as an RSS!
A quick check finds RedBeard atThe Whimsical Cynic (nice name!) linking to BFD. Since he’s a Clevelander, I’m adding him to the NEO Blogroll.
Jack Ricchiuto writes:
“When we consider the traditional role of leader, we realize how much of the leaders’ power was based on their privileged and often exclusive access to knowledge. Knowledge made the difference between the leadership haves and have-nots. Without exclusive knowledge, the ‘leader’ has no power to effectively lead. The key word here: effectively.Today, with the unleashing of social and technology networks, we are seeing the democratization of knowledge. Leaders no longer have exclusive domain over knowledge. In fact, an informal, virtual network of people can have more shared knowledge about almost anything than any single leader could ever have. “
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