Ghost of Midnight

Kirk LaPointe, Managing Editor of The Vancouver Sun, wrote recently about Front Porch Forum…
Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
Technology permits blink-of-an-eye contact and an all-day-wired-up-and-followed feeling: Twitter, Facebook and IM pretty well track your every, well, everything.
Then there’s Front Porch Forum, a service that is using technology — or some of it, anyway [...]

I came across some “manhour” data today from a variety of sources. Got me thinking, so I laid it out in these graphs (each graph shows the estimated number of human-hours of labor required to complete each project)…

So how do we get more of those TV watching hours put to productive use?  Plenty of [...]

Folks in Huntington, in a rural part of Vermont, have been discussing speeding cars a lot lately on Front Porch Forum… and how to slow them down through the village center. Good, meaty conversation. Lots of ideas and participants.
So when Doug asked if anyone could loan him a posthole digger, I figure it [...]

Author and thinker Clay Shirky nails it today with a brilliant posting about… about…
Well, I’m having a hard time boiling it down to a sound bite. Here’s a sample, but I recommend reading the full piece…

I was being interviewed by a TV producer to see whether I should be on their show, and she [...]

Amen to this. From Kara Swisher at Wall Street Journal’s All Things Digital…
I conducted a little experiment among the more than 100 folks gathered for the wedding, all of whom were quite intelligent, armed with all kinds of the latest devices (many, many people had iPhones, for example) and not sluggish about technology.
They were [...]

Jen Mincar writes from Richmond, VT today…
I love Front Porch Forum. It’s such a great vehicle for bringing us all closer together. My visiting friends from across the country laugh when they read the posts about free eggs, or bobcat sightings, or someone looking for a good local seamstress, but I LOVE it. It’s [...]

More evidence that Front Porch Forum brings out the good in people…
Andrew posted a TV that he was giving away on his FPF neighborhood forum. Jeff responded saying how he appreciated the gesture, to which Andrew replied…
I have been touched by the power of FPF to network the goodness that exists in our community [...]

Vermont is working to become the first “e-State” with availability of broadband internet and cell phone coverage across 100% of the state… by 2010. The “100% of the state” bit is ambitious and lots of people, organizations are businesses and contributing toward the realization of this goal.
The State of Vermont justifies this ambition saying [...]

My old friend Lars is up to some new tricks in central Vermont…
I am asking everyone I know to support a new effort in Montpelier: the Onion River Exchange’s Pecha Kucha Night. The idea is pretty cool, and really simple:
- Two rounds of presenters
- Each presenter has 6 minutes and 20 slides with which to [...]

The Case Foundation’s Make It Your Own Awards contest is wrapping up. The public online vote closes this Tuesday, April 22, 2008, at 3 PM EST.
Please vote for Front Porch Forum among your choices for the Final Four. And thanks to all who voted and supported our effort in this endeavor.
Front Porch Forum, [...]