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BarCampMilwaukee Part II

I’ll be honest, when I made a post titled BarCampMilwaukee? I was hoping someone would notice. Well, someone has…

See this post by Justin Kruger titled BARcamp :: Why I like cheese even more than racing. Justin is involved in Fireseed and shot me an email which is right inline with my post. So while barcampmilwaukee.com does not seem to be online quite yet, it is registered and planning for the event is in motion.

This is awesome! I hope to be able to meet up with Justin and Bob to discuss this further.They always say Milwaukee is a “Great Place on a Great Lake” and I’m hoping we can prove this to be true when it comes to the web and technology as well.

When I know more, I’ll post it here.



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My GPS Works (Sort of…)

Scoble (and others) ask, Do GPS’s work for you?

Well, I’ve got a Garmin eTrex and I use i mainly for hiking and biking, but occasionally also use it when driving (even though it is a handheld unit.)

So does it work? Yes… for what I currently use it for. Simple things. Mileage, speed, navigation, etc. The basics. Could it do more? Oh yes… Hopefully at some point, I’ll be able to attach the thing to my Mac to easily get data into and out of it. I can’t really do that yet, meaning I technically can get the data in and out, but it’s a pain. Garmin has never been to nice to the Mac platform, though that is (supposedly) changing.

I’ve been saying the geolocative services are just going to get bigger and bigger… and they are, but we really need the hardware folks to get on board with that, and give us the tools we need to make it happen.

Until then, I’ll be using about 25% of my GPS. Garmin, get on the ball, make me love what I can do with your product so I can blog about it all the time.

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Sorry Business Journal…

I really wanted to link to an article in the Business Journal, but the article I wanted to link to will be disappearing from the web soon:

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It appears as though they don’t want to publish print pieces online for free. This may or may not make sense. It’s been going on for the last 5 (10?) years, and print publications still haven’t quite figured it out.

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Google Video Linking

I’m not always a fan of Google, but they get some things right, and while I would have said that Google Video is not exactly right, what they do get right is linking to a specific point in a video.

As more and more time-based media comes online, we need better tools (and maybe even some standards?) for linking to it. I know that some work has been done in this area, but we really need to step it up so audio and video can eventually be on par with hypertext when we want to address it on the web.

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Penguin Returned!

Remember when I told you about the missing penguin?

Well, it’s been returned.

Three men, ages 19 and 20, from Milwaukee and the Town of Genesee, apparently took the 10-foot inflatable bird in June to give to a friend who likes penguins…

Yeah, and I bet their "friend" just happens to use Linux…