Author: Rob Goodspeed

DC Blogger Meetup Friday

Kathryn On and Rock Creek Rambler are sponsoring a blogger meetup Friday at Eyebar from 6 to 9 p.m. they’re calling “Live Blog 05: Like Blogging, but with Speech”. Yeah, it’s at Eyebar, a self-described “place to see and be seen.â€? Here’s what RCR says about it: Don’t forget about Live Blog this Friday. All […]

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I Weigh In On the DDA’s Plan for Downtown Ann Arbor

I haven’t been paying much attention, but after a little research: Sounds like a good idea to me. Predictably, there’s a little controversy. Doug Cowherd, co-chairman of the local Sierra Club and czar of the local NIMBY “environmentalistsâ€? who lobby like hell for little parks in their back yards but could care less about planning […]

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Whose Neighborhood?

“Welcome to the Neighborhoodâ€? is a new reality TV program on ABC: Seven families arrive at the dream home – a 3300-square-foot house with four bedrooms and two-and-a-half bathrooms located on a prime piece of real estate in a cul-de-sac near Austin, Texas. The competing families, each in their own unique way, enthusiastically meet and […]

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Inaugural A2 Craigslist Missed Connection

Is it serious? The first missed connection has been posted to the Ann Arbor craigslist: “To the cute waitress working the check out on saturday afternoon. I was the quiet bearded boy in a the yellow ‘734′ shirt who ordered a tempeh reuben and chai latte. We joked about my shirt and I think there […]

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Blogging in Maine

The author of LifeHacker, a technology blog and one of the Gawker media properties, is teaching a $900 course in “Weblogs and Online Journalismâ€? at the Maine Photographic Workshops in Rockport, Maine. I learn new things all the time – not only is the self-described “one of the world’s great creative centersâ€? in Rockport, Maine, […]

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Inviting BAM-N To Speak

According to an email I was forwarded, the featured speaker at a fundraiser in for MARAL Pro-Choice Michigan in Ann Arbor Thursday is non other than Miranda Massie. Miranda was the lead attorney for one group of student intervenors (the law students – not the undergrad intervenors) in the Grutter v. Bollinger affirmative action case. […]

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