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Email vs Apps
- Sep 20, 2016 - This is another example of how the predicted death of email back in 2005 may have been a bit premature.
Actually, in 2015-2016, I've seen stories about how email is dead, despite email's usefulness as a notification tool, and the gro...
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- Sep 20, 2016
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The case for print journalism
- Sep 10, 2016 - Politico - Why Print News Still Rules - "Ive been an online journalist for 20 yearsand still, youll have to pry my newspaper from my cold dying hands."
I get most of my news from the Web as it flows to my desktop, my tablet, my pho...
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10 min read
- Sep 20, 2016
- #media #business #design #history #web #mobile #socialmedia #book
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Tt post sep 20 2016
- Phoenix Earth Food Co-op. This is one of my favorite stores in the Toledo area.
The Sylvania Farmers Market occurs on Tuesday evenings, I think. I couldn't tell from their Facebook page. I've never attended this market.
The Westgate Farmers Market...
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- Sep 20, 2016
- #farming #food
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Proposed tt post sep 17 2016
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Football_League_on_television
Our local CBS station prioritizes the Browns. Local Fox station, the Lions.
CBS is primarily the AFC and Fox the NFC.
When a game features a team from both conferences, then I do...
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- Sep 17, 2016
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How Development Seed builds websites
- #jekyll - #programming - #web - #design - #business
https://developmentseed.org/blog/2013/05/28/media-support-in-prose/
https://developmentseed.org/blog/2013/06/21/prose-on-mobile/
https://developmentseed.org/blog/prose-backbone-refactor/
https:...
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- Sep 17, 2016
- #jekyll #programming #web #design #business
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Website built with Jekyll and GitHub Pages
- September 2016
Earlier this year, I read the 2012 post by Development Seed, titled How We Build CMS-Free Websites.
Prose.io and Jekyll enable building simple, flexible, and reliable without the overhead of dynamic CMSs.
In fact, weve deploy...
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2 min read
- Sep 16, 2016
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Tt post sep 16 2016
- "Not defending TPS, I didn't look at their scores, I would just caution everyone to take this study with huge grain of salt"
The report cards have changed nearly every year for about 15 years. I know that 6th_Floor mentioned WLS, but this comment f...
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6 min read
- Sep 16, 2016
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Education Info - October 2014
- #toledo - #education
"Ottawa Hills-1.83%
Sylvania-1.31%
Springfield 1.27%
Toledo 1.16%"
"Based on that single statistic, you could draw a correlation between % of tax paid and quality of education."
And other data exists at:
Other people p...
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4 min read
- Sep 16, 2016
- #toledo #education
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Bookmarks Lite 4
- https://haveibeenpwned.com
Writing an editor in less than 1000 lines of code, just for fun
News
Severe Weather Info
NWS text data
An Arduino-Based Home Weather Station on the Elastic Stack
Toledo Blade local news feed
https://theintercept....
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1 min read
- Sep 15, 2016
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Trust in Media - Sep 2016
- The 2016 data is skewed and skewered by this year's presidential election pro wrestling-like circus.
"Gallup poll: trust in mass media falls to 32%, eight points lower than in 2015, with only 14% of Republicans trusting it; overall level is lowest s...
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- Sep 15, 2016
- #media #politics
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Tt post sep 14 2016
- Interesting. Clearly, my wife and I are internet-lite users.
According to Toast.net's website, the $37.95 per month DSL plan that we have "only" provides 6 Mbps download and 0.75 Mbps upload.
I don't experience any speed issues. Today, my wife and...
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1 min read
- Sep 14, 2016
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TheVerge.com still a bloated mess in September 2016
- The dumbest story that I read in 2015 was this one.
July 20, 2016 - TheVerge.com - The mobile web sucks - It's going to get worse before it gets better
The article's slant is stunning when considering the author's bio. My emphasis added.
Year...
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8 min read
- Sep 13, 2016
- #web #design #media #moronism
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Full service car wash at Russ' Auto Wash
- We live in West Toledo, and we use Russ' Auto Wash, located at Secor and Laskey, which provides interior and exterior cleaning options.
Russ' Auto Wash has been providing auto wash services in the Toledo area over sixty years.
Two locations prov...
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- Sep 12, 2016
- #toledo #local #business
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Links sep 10 2016
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12468473
https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/obama/
https://developmentseed.org/blog/2011/09/09/jekyll-github-pages/
https://developmentseed.org/blog/2012/07/27/build-cms-free-websites/
- Sep 11, 2016