Adam Curry provides more updates on his visit to Iraq with the Dutch Marines. Fascinating stories & photos.
Monthly Archives: February 2004
Rowe Pottery Works – Closing?
Venerable Cambridge based Rowe Pottery works is operating under a court-appointed receiver and is scheduled to close by May 1, founder Jim Rowe said Thursday.
WI Primary – Repubs support Edwards
Steve Schultze reports that a number of traditionally Republican counties supported Edwards in Tuesday’s primary.
Open Records & Email
An assistant state attorney general advised public officials Wednesday not to use e-mails to communicate back and forth with their fellow members on local government bodies because they could be violating Wisconsin’s open meetings law.
The use of e-mail is “a thorny issue,” Assistant Attorney General Bruce Olsen told an audience of about 100 local government and school board officials, law enforcement officers, attorneys and journalists at a seminar organized by the state Department of Justice.
“Sometimes it looks like a letter and sometimes it looks like a conversation,” Olsen said of e-mail correspondence. AMY RINARD – Journal-Sentinel
AFSCME TV Ad
The Wisconsin AFSCME chapter ran TV ads during tonight’s UW-Illinois Men’s Basketball game (The Badgers lost in Champaign).
Rather than spending money on TV (expensive and fewer viewers every day), why don’t they tell their story online via weblog(s), email lists and search engine placements?
UPDATE: Toyota announced an exclusive auto sponsorship deal with Ebay. There are many marketing/pr and community opportunities on the internet.
Arthur C. Clarke
The Onion interviews 2001 author Arthur C. Clarke (not a spoof).
Cooks Illustrated
In 1979, Christopher Kimball was a gangly 28-year-old getting ready to launch a food magazine out of the garage of his Weston, Conn., home. He didn’t have much experience at publishing; he didn’t have much training as a cook. What he did have was $110,000 raised from investors, a stubborn dedication to home cooking and a shrewd business sense that his ideas would eventually pay off.
Twenty five years later, they have. Kimball, who at 53 is still gangly and stubborn, heads up a publishing empire that racked up $25 million in sales last year, thanks to its flagship, advertising-free, magazine Cook’s Illustrated, a bimonthly that has turned obsessive recipe testing into a gold mine. In the past five years, the magazine has expanded its success with a spinoff public television show, “America’s Test Kitchen,” plus two subscription Web sites (cooksillustrated.com and americastestkitchen.com), and a steady flow of cookbooks. Washington Post
Dane County/Madison Election Results
Dane County & City of Madison 2/17/2004 Election Results are posted here.
The Dane County Casino vote is going down, big.
Speaking of elections, the Washington Post has an interesting article on a 29 year old American, Tobin Bradley who is organizing elections in rural Iraq.
News from Iraq – Adam Curry!
Adam Curry, DJ/VJ and active blogger is in Iraq with the Dutch Marines (he lives in Amsterdam).
Curry’s blog has daily updates. He’s also posted a photo album.
Fascinating.
Music: One Quiet Night
Today’s Tune by Pat Metheny:
