The Goodspeed Update

With the ending of services by Independence Air this week I’ve been watching a whole bunch of stuff from the now defunct airline go up on eBay. Although I’ve bid on a couple items what I’m really looking for was the posters that used to decorate the waiting area in their Dulles terminal: they featured […]

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Connecticut Ave, originally uploaded by DCist Rob.

Test of autopost.

The headlines tell it all on this one.

Detroit News: “U-M Suspends Coke Contract“
Ann Arbor News: “U-M puts contract with Coke on ice“
University Record: “U-M suspends purchase of Coca-Cola products“
Michigan Daily: “‘U’ to suspend Coke contracts in milestone decision“

DC Blogs, a blog that surveys the local blog scene started by journalist Pat Thibodeau, launched today a page that aggregates the content of many of the blogs he highlights on their own page. The feature, called DC Blogs Live is similar something George Hotelling developed for ArborBlogs.com back in 2004. While I applaud Pat […]

Since getting my new Treo 650 I’ve started doing two things I couldn’t with my older phone: sending lots more text messages and also moblogging photos from the camera’s internal camera. Although the phone’s camera shoots at 640×480 pixels and can’t quite replace my digital camera, I know that perhaps my next phone will do […]

I found this interesting article about Moveon.org’s use of Flickr via Echoditto’s linkblog. Today I stumbled across Flickr user DC Tourism, apparently an account created by the Washington, DC Convention & Tourism Corporation (WCTC). Other organizational applications I know of include my kickball league DC Kickball (members were encouraged to email in photos), Evan Bayh […]

I recently stumbled across this NPR story about bulletproof glass (Via Frozen Tropics) in two liquor stores in my neighborhood - Modern Liquors just down the street at 9th and M, and Best-In Liquor which has re-invented themselves with an expanded wine selection and no glass thanks to the booming development on their stretch of […]