Author: Rob Goodspeed

links for 2006-06-08

Metroblogging DC: So, where is that commuter ferry? A commuter ferry on the Potomac? Not as crazy as you might think. “Why Blog Post Frequency Does Not Matter Anymore” Here’s to hoping he’s right! DC Techmeme/memeorandum lunch this Sunday The designer of some aggregator websites hopes to get some bloggers together this Sunday. The Amateur […]

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links for 2006-06-07

Model D – Detroit is Flat “(We must) stop living in the past, embrace the future. There is no other option.” Michigan theorist has tough words for the state’s economy. Nothing too new (Richard Florida, anyone?), but well stated. ClimateCrisis.net: An Inconvenient Truth Everyone should see this movie about global warming. A ‘more revolutionary’ Web […]

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Was Harry Hopkins a Soviet Spy?

Short answer: no. Did he pass a secret to the Russians? Perhaps. Lately I’ve become interested Harry L. Hopkins, a man who rose from humble beginnings to become Franklin D. Roosevelt’s closest advisor. Hopkins was a study in contrasts: he was not only an idealistic small-town midwesterner, but also a jaded New Yorker at home […]

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