DISQUS

is this a paid or volunteer position?

WHOA! worlds colliding. how did you come across peter's show? have been listening to him for 15+ years, and have been talking it up as well since it's such great stuff.

indeed. the mele-aarons genes are strong with this one.

Done! iPhone, mobile (and widget) version of Change.gov here: http://bit.ly/cejW

Gustav mobile resource guide (iPhone, cell): http://ventana.cerado.com/gustav08

adjust for seasonality.

thanks for the inclusion!

christopher carfi's last blog post..Contact Lost

what the world needs now is a "Twitter is down, I blame..." page not unlike http://kottke.org/when-obama-wins/ page.

patrick, check out the by-state bloggers listed in the directory here: http://tinyurl.com/5hob7w

sort of like a "mute" button!

For your consideration, would also like to point you to "Social Networking for Businesses and Associations," available at: http://tinyurl.com/ywd3ak

jake, have you seen the work that's been done over the past decade or so by the Shoah Foundation?

http://college.usc.edu/vhi/

it's a fantastic resource on capturing, cataloging and archiving personal testimonies.

+1

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...and if anyone showing up has the option to park far away and bike in the last mile or three, it'll actually save quite a bit of time. it's not the parking that's a bear (although parking is a bear)...the getting out afterwards has been a clusterf*ck that in some past years where it has taken a couple of hours to get back to hwy 92 from the HMB airport (about 4 miles). one option is to put the bike on the bike rack, park in HMB proper, and ride up the last couple of miles. ymmv, naturally.

robert, dream machines is the 29th (it says "april 23rd" in the post above).

pete, great summary; you nailed our reason for being in the line "It’s about giving more control to the user." we think that the next big sea-change in business is that customers are going to *actually* have the tools to control their own interactions with vendors, and the capabilities are starting to become available to make it happen.

re: design

well, they always say "watch what the leaders are doing," so our original design philosophy was really intended to be a "MySpace meets Del.icio.us" thing. :-)

in all seriousness, we've actually redone many of the aspects of the system since you last took a look at it -- we launched a redesigned home page, redesign haystack pages, and, most notably, have *completely* revamped the tag management UI as a direct result of user feedback over the past few months. we'll continue to do so going forward.

as always, we want to hear the critical feedback, that's how we improve the system! if there are particular aspects of the experience that we can improve, we always want to hear about it from our customers.

thanks again.

robert - google maps mobile overlays traffic. even on my crappy little samsung clamshell phone, it works great. nationwide coverage, too, on the traffic -- i was presenting in DC last week, called up gmaps and there was the traffic on the beltway. it works pretty well.

also for us, 511.org is decent. but the best site for coastside traffic is barry parr's coastsider:

http://www.coastsider.com

check the links on the right sidebar. this is my fave:

http://lcp.sanmateo.org/trip/current.html

real-time scrollng traffic times over the hill and up to montara.

rock on! congrats to you and the fam!!!!

dave gray has a kick-ass little portable tripod:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/christophercarfi/142132693/

heh. tara writes:


>Viral? You may want to take something for that.

>I don’t think you can actually do that from Buck’s in 45 minutes

heh.

paul, anytime you wanna strap into the right seat, let me know. :-)

Speaking of Devil's Slide, Barry Parr has been doing an *incredible* job reporting on what's going on with his Coastsider project. The key link:

Devil's Slide reporting:
http://coastsider.com/comments/1283_0_1_0_C/

Travel times and maps are linked from the right side of that page as well.

If travel times are > 30min from Hwy280 and you're coming from Woodside or points south, bail out at Woodside Road (Hwy 84) and come over the top. It'll drop you onto Hwy 1 at San Gregorio, and is a great drive in a sports car. It's 45min (consistent) from Buck's. And you can stop off at the San Gregorio Store ( http://www.sangregoriostore.com/ ) for a cool refreshing beverage on the way as you hit the coast.

Congrats again, neighbor!

nice!