Ghost of Midnight

A near-tragic tale played out on the other side of the window just beyond the monitor that hogs so much of my attention every day. As reported on the Five Sisters Neighborhood Forum…
One of the movers unloading the North American truck next door apparently was bit in the neck by a spider yesterday evening [...]

Mark Glaser’s interview with Lisa Williams of H2otown and Placeblogger is worth reading in its entirety.  Here’s a clip…
If you ask why people read the newspaper they might say, ‘to be informed.’ But to be informed for what? I think the answer is to be informed to connect with other people. But those places to [...]

Ahh… for the simple pleasures of childhood. When I was a boy – before PCs, before DVDs, before VCRs, before even cable – our seven-member family used to gather on occasion in the living room to watch home movies from the old clickety clack 8mm projector. My dad had a few reels of [...]

The Local Onliner reports today from the Where 2.0 conference about online mapping. A couple points of interest…
MapQuest Gm James Greiner brought everything back to Earth with a survey showing that just 42 percent of Internet users use mapping sites, and relatively light penetration of advanced mapping services… just 22 percent want to post [...]

Always interesting at Front Porch Forum world headquarters.  Here are a few member headlines from today…
1.  Stuffed dog-model wanted (cat and toddler too) – from The Addition Neighborhood Forum.  The local Humane Society want lifelike stuff creatures to use in evaluating and training their animals and new pet-owners.
2.  Free bags of dog fur – from [...]

Mashable reports today…
O’Reilly is holding the Where 2.0 Conference in San Jose next week on May 29-30, and its Launch Pad portion of the conference will give a handful of search and mapping companies an opportunity to debut their products, which have all been deemed powerful, innovative and promising. Here is a quick rundown of [...]

Here’s a beautiful story that just came across the Airport Drive Neighborhood Forum…
Hi Everyone – This weekend (Sat & Sun, 9am-3pm) I will be holding a yard sale at 33 Forest Street [South Burlington]. The proceeds from this sale will go to send my parents on a much-deserved, very belated honeymoon. This June [...]

According to a new report, online ad revenue climbed to about $17B in 2006, a 35% gain over 2005.
Branded display ads and search placements helped the online ad industry post its best year ever in 2006, according to numbers released Wednesday by the Internet Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Overall, revenue increased 35% last year to [...]

From today’s Local Onliner…
We’re all guilty of feature creep. A lot of the stuff isn’t especially useful. Now comes Palore. When it comes to directory listings, Palore believes hardly any of the info is useful. In fact, consumers want to know just one thing.
“The interesting thing was that they all wanted just one thing and [...]

From the Local Onliner today…
The Knight Foundation has just issued a list of really big grants that should really jumpstart hyper-local media (and some more traditional media endeavors as well). As Knight itself says, its “News Challenge” was meant to combine “nerds, news and neighborhoods.”
This year’s recipients are getting more than $12 million. In my [...]