Posted: August 20th, 2004 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Uncategorized | Comments Off
Gothamist.com is a popular news blog in New York City that averages over 30,000 unique visitors each day – frequently over 150,000 each week. That site has recently expanded to
Chicago,
Los Angeles, and
San Francisco.
Starting Monday, I’ll be editing with my friend Mike Grass their Washington D.C. site DCist.com, which will enter a public beta phase that day. The official launch is planned for early September. If you’d like a sneak preview before Monday, drop me an email. (rob.goodspeed (at) gmail.com)
Posted: August 19th, 2004 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Uncategorized | Comments Off
ANN ARBOR / U-M NEWS: ArborUpdate.com
D.C. NEWS: DCist.com
I’ve moved to Washington, D.C.:
Robert Goodspeed
2216 39th Place NW
Washington DC 20007-1718
Posted: August 8th, 2004 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Uncategorized | Comments Off
The New York Civil Liberties Union (affiliated with the national ACLU) has announced they will open a temporary storefront to provide information to media, police, protesters, and the general public about free speech rights and also monitor protest activity during the Republican National Convention in New York City,
The storefront is located two blocks from Madison Square Garden at 520 Eighth Avenue (between 36th and 37th Streets)
They have also launched a website which has a convenient listing of all officially permitted marches and protests, and a map of the street closures near Madison Square Garden:
http://www.rncprotestrights.org/
Posted: August 7th, 2004 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Uncategorized | Comments Off
As reported in the New York Times:
President Bush told a convention of 5,000 minority journalists on Friday that colleges should not give preferences for admission to the children of alumni, a position that put him at odds with his own history at Yale University.
Mr. Bush made his remarks at the Washington Convention Center in response to a question from Roland S. Martin, a syndicated columnist and a member of the National Association of Black Journalists, about whether colleges should give preferences to applicants, commonly called legacies, whose parents or grandparents attended the same institution.
“So the colleges should get rid of legacy?” Mr. Martin asked Mr. Bush at a question-and-answer session that followed the president’s address to the convention.
“Well, I think so,” said Mr. Bush, who is a son, grandson and also a father of Yale graduates. “Yeah. I think it ought to be based on merit.”
Mr. Bush said that he assumed Mr. Martin had brought up the issue because of the president’s Yale legacy, but Mr. Bush also joked that “in my case, I had to knock on a lot of doors to follow the old man’s footsteps.” Mr. Bush apparently meant that he had to work hard to succeed. …
> NYTimes: “Bush Backs Ending Admission Preferences for Children of Alumni”
Posted: August 2nd, 2004 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Uncategorized | Comments Off
My friend Scott Trudeau has finally gotten around to starting a blog at masterofnone.org. To get an idea of what do expect, check out his FAQ.
Posted: July 27th, 2004 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Barack Obama | Comments Off
Barak Obama is addressing the Democratic Convention in Boston. (Text)
ALSO: Viewers with sharp eyes might have caught a glimpse earlier tonight of former College Democrats Chair Jenny Nathan, who is on the floor serving as a page to the Michigan Convention. Also spotted, briefly after Obama’s speech, was former Michigan Daily photographer David Katz.
> Read about the convention at conventionbloggers.com.
Posted: July 9th, 2004 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Ever wonder exactly what your professor was paid? How about the administrators and staff? You’re in luck since courts have ruled that it is in fact public data according to Freedom of Information laws. If you were curious what they earned in 2002, I have posted that data here. However, as the years go by, earnings change. Thus, here’s a 35,436-line spreadsheet containing the name, affiliation, and 2003 yearly earnings of every University employee:
> FY 2003 University of Michigan Employee Earnings (.xls, 5.06 MB) (link fixed)
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