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Inside Business list Thomas Mulready as one of the Power 100 again this year and refers to Cool Cleveland as "a low-tech weekly email". You have no idea how much this offends me. Cool Cleveland is built every week using open source collaborative web tools and distributed using the best platform we can find. I've customized the open source software we're using for our events, and done some fairly cool mods for the next event we sell tickets for. So while the email you get in your inbox appears to be "low tech", Cool Cleveland is one of the most sophisticated publishers around. Did I mention the collaborative software? Thomas isn't the editor, that's Tisha Nemeth-Loomis' job. Thomas is the creator and curator of Cool Cleveland. There's a whole bunch of people involved in it, thats get listed at the bottom of the newsletter every week. So watch who you're callin' low tech.

Got this email and thought I'd pass it along:

Dear Brewed Fresh Daily, Can you help us out with this notice regarding the Daniel Thompson Poet Stone Fund. Maybe you could add it to your daily. If you knew Daniel then I am sure it is a done deal. Maybe we'll see you there.

Join us on Saturday, February 12th, 2005, at 7:30 p.m., at algebra t-house in Cleveland's Little Italy for an evening of poetry, polemics, and performance to benefit "The Daniel Thompson Poet Stone Fund." This absolutely free event is being held to raise donations for a tombstone in Lakeview Cemetery for Cuyahoga County�s late, great poet laureate, Daniel Thompson, who passed away in May, 2004. The evening will feature scheduled readers and performers as well as an open mic session. Alegebra t-house is located at 2136 Murray Hill Road in Little Italy. Checks should be made out to "The Daniel Thompson Poet Stone Fund" and sent to: Mac's Backs Paperbacks 1820 Coventry Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44118 To participate or for more information, contact Mark Hopkins at 216-231-7894 or by e-mail at safhop216@aol.com

Indeed. It is a done deal. I didn't "know" Daniel, only through hearing him on WCSB back in the 80's. I'm grateful that BFD readers are entrusting me with spreading the word on their events. I hope more people go out and be apart of the things I post here. Who knows, I might even be there...

Laura Hummer dropped me an email requesting I post JumpStart's upcoming event for BFD readers:

Venture expert John O. Huston, founding member of The Ohio TechAngel Fund LLC is our key note and will be on hand to share his wealth of knowledge. Individuals from JumpStart's portfolio companies (Ayalogic, Day Day Ltd., Embrace Pet Insurance, PreEmptive Solutions, and Stanton Advanced Ceramics) will also be present to share their entrepreneurial experiences of how they took their idea and turned it into a reality... Come and meet serial and aspiring entrepreneurs, supporters of entrepreneurship, community leaders, business leaders, deal makers, and investors at Northeast Ohio's premier networking event. Make new contacts and connections while enjoying an assortment of drinks and hors d'oeuvres while listening to the cool blues rhythms of Cleveland's own - The Bar Flies.

I'm 50% Eastern European and this explains a lot:

"Since the 1500's, coffee drinking in Hungary was a community event. A large number of people could enjoy cups of coffee brewed over an open fire in a large kettle of boiling water. Coffee beans were freshly roasted, ground and mixed with salt and a whole raw egg, including the shell. This mixture was then placed in the boiling water and briskly stirred. The protein in the egg caused the coffee to foam and then cold water was added to reduce the foaming. No filters were needed then or now, as the grounds, egg bits and shell pieces settle to the bottom of the kettle. Coffee was then drawn off the top and collected into smaller kettles for serving..."

I seem to recall one of my friends who came from Hungary describe this, but I appreciate INeedCoffee.com for reminding me of it and my ancestry.

Jeff Hess clicked through to Jay Yoo's blog, and in turn, read the Wired article His reaction:

"The question I have is, what makes Pink think that foreigners can't do creative cheaper? The notion that they can't is ludicrous. In the 20th century we struggled with the idea of a global village. In the 21st century it's going to be a global hut. The only thing that matters now is simply this: can you deliver the desired product more cheaply than your competitor. The key word there is, of course, desired. Nothing else matters."

Maybe one of our economic development expert bloggers (Don Iannone and Ed Morrison) or authors (Jim Gilmore) are working on what comes next after the creative class is old and the experience economy has come and gone. It would be nice to get ahead of the curve instead of playing follow the leader...