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Ryan said:
I helped fund this Oakland Local story by donating via Spot.Us.
Quote: At 9 o’clock Friday morning, the narrow streets of the Columbian Gardens neighborhood in East Oakland are choked with cars angling for parking spaces. Families with toddlers wrapped in fuzzy blankets make their way to the grassy area in front of 9854 Koford Road to join a multi-ethnic group waiting for the food bank truck to arrive. Added: January 22, 2010 at 5:09PM EST
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Ryan said:
The story of Yelp, framed by a nasty review and the business owner who hit back. Maybe.
Quote: More than anything, she blamed Yelp. Out of nowhere, the little company had somehow managed to get between her and her customers. It had hurt her business and caused her to humiliate herself, first online and now, improbably, in the real world. "I've never met any store owner who likes Yelp," Goodman says. "We're all gritting our teeth. It's evil." Added: January 19, 2010 at 1:49PM EST
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Ryan said:
The Washington Post story on the whole don't-bring-a-gun-to-a-snowball-fight seems pretty complete, based on all the pieces I saw floating around on Twitter Saturday and Sunday.
Quote: But the confrontation continued. The snowball fighters, some chanting, "You don't bring a gun to a snowfall fight," demanded the detective's name, and he admitted to them that he had pulled his gun after being struck by snowballs, according to video footage and witnesses. Then, as the detective was walking back to his Hummer, witnesses said, he was struck again by a snowball and ran back into the crowd to grab the man he thought was the culprit. Added: December 21, 2009 at 11:07AM EST
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Ryan said:
QR codes + Google business listings = Yelp killer? Maybe. But aren't QR codes so 2007? I thought Augmented Reality was the 2009 solution to this problem.
Quote: To scan the codes, you'll need a phone with a camera and an app that can read QR codes. For Android-powered devices, including the Droid by Motorola, we recommend using the free Barcode Scanner app. For iPhone, we have found the $1.99 QuickMark app to work best, and starting today, we're partnering with QuickMark to offer the app for free for the first 40,000 downloads. Added: December 7, 2009 at 12:03PM EST
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Ryan said:
Wow! If Loudoun County gets this minor league team, it would play a few minutes from where I'm living now. Would love to see some minor league ball on a regular basis.
Added: September 10, 2009 at 10:18AM EDT
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- acarvin: Learning how the Santa Cruz City Budget website used UserVoice yo generated civil dialogue on the budget. #g2s
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Ryan said:
As a former Santa Cruzan, and former online editor of the local paper, I have to smirk when I hear about "civil dialogue on the budget," even though I have a lot of love for Uservoice and the whole Santa Cruz tech posse.
Added: September 9, 2009 at 4:14PM EDT
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Ryan said:
No sources in this post, and I'm not familiar enough with DullesDistrict yet to know if the LoudounExtra rumors are credible, but as a news obsessive moving to the area in a couple weeks, I'm stunned at the historical context of how much more vibrant the local news scene was in 2007 or so.
Added: August 17, 2009 at 7:22AM EDT
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Ryan said:
KRON in San Francisco is using every tool in the box to provide online viewers with a virtual dashboard to follow the wildfires burning near Bonny Doon in Santa Cruz County. Publish2, UStream, CoverItLive, Flickr, and Twitter are all in the mix.
Added: August 14, 2009 at 5:43PM EDT
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Ryan said:
Kicking myself for missing this event just down the road a bit in Victor this weekend. Trains for the kid, and a mustache competition -- not that my beard is in fighting shape right now. Can we do this in January?
Added: August 10, 2009 at 12:22PM EDT
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Ryan said:
Yes, Santa Cruz is full of awesome people and cool technologists and brilliant artists. But its reputation as a party town remains hard to shake.
Added: August 4, 2009 at 4:55PM EDT
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