Blog Posts About: seattle

1. There are many smart and interesting people here, with lots and lots of laptops.
2. All the laptops have made us exceeded our wi-fi bandwidth, so access is spotty.
3. Dave Winer is excited about the future of OPML, which is about sharing information in outline form.
4. Microsoft is building RSS into Longhorn in a big way. Also, they are using a Creative Commons license.
5. The Hive bees just made us laugh with their mock presentation.
6. I really wish we had better web access.

Tags: gnomedex, seattle

I'll be talking a lot more about this soon, but I wanted to post a quick link to 43 Places, the latest from my homies here in Seattle, the Robot Coop, of 43 Things fame.

Update: At the time of this writing (6/26/05), 43 Places is not yet public, but should be soon.

It's all about where you've been and where you want to go. I'm digging the cool mapping features and the other 43 things-style goodness. Like 43 Things, it's a blog for people who aren't necessarily "bloggers".

Instead of the "Zeitgeist" for 43 Things, they are using "Wanderlust" (to be pronounced with your best German accent) for the same thing on 43 Places.

Big ups to the Robots for getting more of their master plan out into the world.

Tags: 43places, robotcoop, travel, travelblog

At first I took offense- like un-wired was a bad thing. Then I figured out that it meant wire-less. Woo hoo. Read the short article.

The Seattle-Bellevue-Everett-Tacoma city narrowly surpassed former unwired leaders San Francisco and Portland, Ore., which finished second and fourth, respectively, in this year's ranking of the top 100 U.S. markets for wireless Internet accessibility.

According to Intel's third annual "Most Unwired Cities" survey, conducted by Bert Sperling of Sperling's Best Places, this year's top 10 "Most Unwired" regions in the USA are:

1. Seattle-Bellevue-Everett-Tacoma, Wash.
2. San Francisco-San Jose-Oakland, Calif.
3. Austin-San Marcos, Texas
4. Portland, Ore.-Vancouver, Wash.
5. Toledo, Ohio
6. Atlanta
7. Denver
8. Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, N.C.
9. Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn.
10. Orange County, Calif.

Free Wifi Close Up

Originally uploaded by Lee LeFever.

I stumbled upon this in a local neighborhood and was taken aback. It's part of a test being conducted in a couple of places around the city. It is supposed to bring computer users to local businesses like restaurants and laundromats. Very cool to see it happening in my backyard.

More on the project here.

It’s been fun filled few days at Common Craft headquarters. On Monday Jeremy Wright arrived from the Great White North and spent a night here at the house before starting work at Microsoft. We met Nick Finck and Jordan Rule to see Star Wars Revenge of the Sith. I dug the movie and the company. Here's one of Nick's Pics.

It was cool to hang out with Jeremy, who I first met at the Northern Voice blogging conference. These days he’s eyeballs deep in his book on business blogging. He’s a great guy with lots of ideas and motivation. I’m looking forward to seeing the book for sure.

Yesterday was, um, frustrating. My connection to the Internet is through Comcast and it’s been flaky sometimes. When this happens I’m reminded about how much time I spend online. I honestly wonder sometimes if it’s a problem. The second my mind has time to wander, my first impulse is to get online. When it’s not there, it gets to me and I feel a bit helpless.

Obviously it's back- Yay!

This is a great big shout out to the Robot Co-op for their Webby in the Social Networking category. The great guys/robots with big brains who created 43 Things deserve it and and I say more power to 'em. It blows my mind to think that just 4.5 months ago there were 139 people doing 411 things. Now, it's 21,500 doing nearly 83,000 things. Go Robots Go!