Project Launch: The Learning Kitchen
June 30, 2008
The Learning Kitchen is cooking school and kitchen boutique that will be opening in West Chester, Ohio on July 19, 2008. They will be open to the public and with hand-ons and demonstration classes by local and celebrity chefs. They also will have a high-end kitchen boutique with fancy kitchen gadgets and professional cookware that will make any food geek salivate.
I had the opportunity to help develop their web site, coding all of the pages including a class calendar and registration, mailing lists and integration with their point-of-sale system. It was a fun project and I can’t wait to get over there and try some classes.
Video: Empower MediaMarketing President Brian McHale talks about the Future of the Advertising on Public Television
June 14, 2008
Here’s a 9 1/2 minute public television video of Brian McHale (president of Cincinnati’s Empower MediaMarketing) talking about the future of the advertising business and the current state of Cincinnati’s economy.
Google Street View Rolls Out Big for Cincinnati
June 13, 2008
This week I saw a blog post by Morris Tsai that talked about how Google Street View has rolled out in a big way around Cincinnati. I decided to take it for a spin and I was blown away by how comprehensive the coverage is. When I lived in Berkeley (not super far from the Google hive-mind) I got to see the major streets in my neighborhood covered but now Google has photos of obscure side streets and rural areas around Cincinnati available. You can even see my mother-in-law’s house out in the middle of farm country by the Indiana border. It looks like the coverage of mid-sized U.S. cities has gotten pretty good across the board.
Oh and yes my house is in there. Here is the observatory near my house if you want to wander my neighborhood.
Twist – Twitter Trend Graphs
June 4, 2008
I played around with Twist today. It’s a charting tool similar to Google Trends that lets you compare the popularity on various terms in Twitter posts. It might not be an accurate representation of the real pull of the populous, but it is interesting to see what twitchy tech folks are obsessed with from day to day. I first learned about Twist from a post Kara Andrade did with a chart comparing Obama, Clinton and McCain, but I thought it would be cool to test out trends in the Twitter hive mind comparing four words from the classic Godfathers song to create a Birth, School, Work, Death chart.
Yeh, you guess right… “Obama” and “Work” are the winning terms with the Twitter crowd
Concise Theory Explaining the Internet
June 2, 2008
Finally someone has managed to sum up the internet in a simple equation.
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