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July 11, 2006

A senseless act of violence

Alan Senitt, intern for Mark Warner, was killed on Saturday night in Washington, DC. Alan, at 27 yrs. old, was already a leader in the British Jewish Community.

You can read more about it here and here.

Sometimes it sucks to live in the nation's Capitol. This is one of those times.

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June 18, 2006

PostSecret's Dad's Day

PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.

PostSecret's weekly posting is appropiately about Father's Day.

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June 05, 2006

Andy Carvin's a dad

What a great photoset this is! Andy Carvin's a dad. and JD Lasica's telling everybody about it.

Watch the movie if you can, pretty incredible stuff.

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May 16, 2006

Moms day

Is anybody NOT reading about Scobles mom? Microsoft's most famous blogger has struck another chord by getting personal.

My mom suffered a TIA or transient ischemic stroke a year ago. It's been a long road back but we were very lucky. We, of course, found support groups through the blogesphere and associations like American Heart. More thoughts to Robert.

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May 10, 2006

It's all in what you want to beleive

Darren Rowse, of ProBlogger, had a great post on a newspaper snippet generator website.

I went ahead and created the above article of my own. I then sent a text-message to my wife, telling her to check her e-mail. She immediately called in disbelief. Not that having our son named 'student of the year' is unbelievable, it's actually not. But that I hadn't shared the good news until now... Joy turned to anger and I'm now in the doghouse. Funny thing is that I also sent this to other members of my family. They too sent in congrats!

I guess it's all in what you want to believe? I can already think of interesting viral marketing implications for this tool but that might also get you in trouble.

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November 23, 2005

Best of craigslist

craigslist > best of craigslist

What a great read. Someone over at craigslist has pulled together a collection of the best postings.

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August 17, 2005

Psyco killer

Chris Dover, over at RelayBlogger thinks that I look like the dude from Psycho! Agree? When I did a Wash Post chat, someone said that I look like Dustin Hoffman. Darn, that pic and chat are down. Where's a cache when you need it?

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July 20, 2005

Help Shari Kurzrok find a liver

Ogilvy PR and others are asking you to spread the word. Shari needs a liver to live.  To help, you can:

1) To reach anyone who may be in a position to make a liver donation within the next 2-4 days.

2) Everyone to spend a moment today, sending a prayer or thought to Shari in this critical hour.

3) Tell a friend or share a note of concern

If you can provide immediate assistance in locating a potential donor, please contact us at (877) 223-3386 or liverforalife@yahoo.com.

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June 17, 2005

Drop Jim an email

Kevin O'Keefe gives all of us a reality check and points to 102704:Jim Guy's blog. Jim's written a blog to confront his cancer. The mainstream media has gotten a hold of the story, you can read more about it here.

Better yet, as Kevin says, let's spread the word about Jim's blog and tell folks to drop him an email.
 

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May 02, 2005

Hosting on a Monday morning

Well, I just started off Monday morning with a bang. We got telemarketed from a hosting service... Seems that when you register a domain name, this information becomes public domain. Oy.

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February 28, 2005

Ten Best Intranets of 2005

With all the talk of company networks and blogging, Jakob Nielsen's current Alertbox features the Ten Best Intranets of 2005.

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February 03, 2005

"It was the first time I filled out a DNR" order.

More Updates:  Biopsy Goes Smoothly for Sterling Boy (free reg req'd)
9-Year-Old's Parents Had Turned to EBay to Raise Money for Surgery

"We met Frank, eyeball to eyeball," said Hrayr Shahinian, the surgeon who last month offered to waive his $40,000 fee for the biopsy after learning that the family was auctioning a "Frank must die" bumper sticker on eBay to raise money for the procedure. "We did some damage to [Frank], for sure."
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January, 2005

Read this piece when you think you have problems feel like complaining. Then, help me find David's auction on ebay.

Family of Boy With Cancer Bids on Hope (free registration req. or try bugmenot.com)
 

Tiffini Dingman-Grover said it began with a grilled cheese sandwich -- not just any sandwich, but one that bore a likeness of the Virgin Mary and brought in $28,000 at auction online. The final, galling straw, she said, was a "haunted" walking cane that last month fetched $65,000 on eBay.

"I thought if people are going to spend that kind of money for crap, then maybe they'd put it toward a good cause," said Dingman-Grover, who has spent two years facing the emotional and financial cataclysm of a critically ill son, David, 9.

OLD UPDATES:  here is David's website.  I still can't find the auction on ebay though...

 

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January 29, 2005

Museum of bad album covers: the worst album covers ever!

I've now seen this link 3x so guess it must be a trend.. Here you go, a website museum for the worst album covers. Isn't the Internet a great thing?

Museum of bad album covers: the worst album covers ever!

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January 25, 2005

Craigslist and cottage industries

It's not an apples to apples comparison but while people have been debating HTML vs text for years, craigslist has built a business out of the lowest common denominator-- really plain text with no graphics. (originally seen on Susan Mernit's blog)

Craigslist and cottage industries

 

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January 23, 2005

Cynthia Webb: Filter's Farewell

Cynthia Webb, a longtime fixture in the Washington, DC tech reporting scene, has just written her last column and entered the Blogosphere. You can follow Cynthia's new column The Scan here.

(registration req'd for Wash Post links above)

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December 29, 2004

Bright Beginnings

As part of the Holiday, Jan/Elan/and I visited with Washington DC's Bright Beginnings Program today.  Executive Director  Betty Jo Gaines explained  that the  center could use more resources (time & money).  What a worthwhile place. The center offers a safe haven to 84 preschoolers that all come from really bad situations.

Here's the link for more info. and to help.

Bright beginnings is a developmental child care center for homeless preschoolers whose families are in crisis shelters or transitional housing in Washington, DC.

The center offers free, full-day, year-round, and developmentally- appropriate care for approximately 100 children aged six weeks to five years old. As one of two child care centers in the District of Columbia that offers free care to homeless children, Bright Beginnings is alleviating a desperate community shortage.

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December 20, 2004

Washington DC baseball?

Anyone following Washington DC baseball knows that the current tiff is over proposed public and private financing of a new stadium. Tonight, there is a town hall meeting to discuss the impending future of Major League Baseball in DC.

Passions are running high with grassroots websites and discussions like this, this and this popping up. Off in frigid temps. to the town hall meeting to help save baseball--

Updates:

Deal Made to Save Expos Move to Washington

You can read more about it here: D.C. Baseball

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December 16, 2004

FREE metro rides

I was heading downtown for a morning meeting this week and took the Washington, DC metro.  The turn styles were open and there was a bit of confusion. Seems that ING Direct picked up the tab for the morning commute (the 5:30a-9:30a shift).

As you departed the station, there were people greeters with ING direct marketing pieces waiting for you.  I also saw promotions in Baltimore, Md. but not sure about the free train rides there...

Maybe this is Metro's attempt to make the Washington, DC system more 'rider friendly'? I wonder what the metrics for success are with a promotion like this? In any event, a nice touch.

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