Archives for January 2005
Commuting, the “L”, the people… always catapults me into a intensely reflective, intensely aware, intensely intense mood. That, or I try to sleep on the train.
But there’s something beautiful and tangible, even tactile, about the experience. So I invite you to a summary slice of said experience: This is Grand’s photo contest winners.
(Link via View from the Corner, which I found on the always interesting Chicago Bloggers site. She’s on the Purple.)
Thanks to a tip from Steve (who seems to know a lot of things about a lot of things I don’t know a lot about), I’ve got myself free voicemail from K7.net. And it’s a cool number, too. Now, you, the perusing weblog reader, may make audio contact with me, the intrepid blogger.
Voicemail number: 206-339-8226
By no accident, this spells: 206-FEW-TACOS
…well, not for driving directions in Norway, anyway.
![[Window Wiki]](/content/jotsheet/images/blogwalk_window_wiki.jpg)
My experience at BlogWalk 6.0 was an eye-opening one. I’d never been to an event of its kind, never met bloggers like the bloggers I met at BlogWalk, and not thought in great detail about many of the topics discussed. The event (see pictures!) was superb for prompting discussion and bringing disparate ideas from a community of like-minded individuals together—ideas that we effectively organized into themes. What we struggled with, however, was drawing conclusions and making decisions from the powerful raw material of our conversations.
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![[Snowy Evanston]](/content/jotsheet/images/snowy_evanston_2005-01-23.jpg)
With the heavy snow a few weeks ago, I wondered how the fine folks at the City of Evanston would get the word out if they wanted to declare a snow emergency. Turns out it didn’t matter, because they didn’t force the issue on snow removal.
This snowstorm’s in a whole different league though, baby. Like 12-14 inches minimum league. So they’re doing that snow removal thang, posting it on the official web page for such announcements. You can also call 847-866-2917 for the 4-1-1.
Still, though, I knew a lot of people would be clueless about the snow emergency (and the possibility of getting their cars towed). But I just figured out how they really get the message out: By driving down the street with a frickin’ megaphone and telling all of our sorry asses that they’re gonna plow the street.
Recorded phone messages aside, web pages aside, sometimes you just gotta get the word out the old fashioned way!
It was a good run, Lou. We’re going to miss you on the sidelines. Next up for you: The Hall of Fame.
Writing on his blog The National Debate, Bob Cox gives a great history of how he got into blogging. After watching New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. attempt to blame the Jayson Blair debacle on the failure of readers to communicate with the Times (!), Bob decided to, well, communicate with the Times. And he found they weren’t too communicative. But through his exploits in the blogosphere, nicely summed up in his post, it seems the NYT and the rest of the MSM is perhaps a bit more responsive to criticism and reader input today than it was a scant few years past.