"Can we walk there?" My friends from Seattle want to know.

"We'll take the streetcar." I tell them with a smile.

Great Recycling Videos

Retro Cool Mr . Rogers Esq Trip To the Recyling Factory; Great Molten Aluminum Video Footage.

Bike generated power

Over The Rhine is a neighborhood in downtown Cincinnati built in the mid to late 1800's by German Mason's. The Erie canal ran from the Ohio River (about ten blocks south from here) to Lake Erie divided downtown proper with this neighborhood in which the German immigrants lived. The German immigrants named this neighborhood "Over The Rhine" in tribute of the Rhine River in Germany.

This photosynth was taken from my balcony (fire escape) on Main St. Recently featured in the NY Times Main St. in Cincinnati, Ohio is alive with a diverse community of artist, musicians, and working non-working citizens. The OTR is experiencing a beautiful rebirth of music, art, and community that makes the future of Cincinnati hopeful and positive.

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P&G chief operating officer to offer keynote at minority scholarship gala.

This article was not written by Mark Stegman. It is re-post from article located at http://sorta.com/news/2009/nr18.html

Cincinnati’s top business and education advocates expected to turn out for the Cincinnati Chapter of the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials event.

CINCINNATI, OH – For the first time, the Cincinnati chapter of Conference of Minority Transportation Officials (COMTO) will hold a scholarship gala to raise money for students interested in pursuing a degree in transportation and transportation-related areas of study. The keynote speaker of the April 30 event is P&G’s chief operating officer Robert McDonald. The event will be held at The Phoenix, located at 812 Race St.

Mr. McDonald is a veteran P&G executive dedicated to cultivating leadership and success. His business acumen and management have helped elevate P& G’s brand and reputation across the globe.

COMTO expects at least 250 high profile guests at this event, chaired by Kay Geiger, regional president of PNC Bank. Master of ceremonies will be WLWT-TV anchor and reporter Courtis Fuller. The Rev. Damon Lynch Jr., pastor of New Jerusalem Baptist Church, will lead the invocation.

Cocktails start at 6 p.m.; dinner and program begins at 7 p.m. Cost is $100 per person. A range of sponsorships are available at $1,500 to $5,000 per table.

The Cincinnati chapter of COMTO is part of a national organization of professionals within the transportation sector (aviation, ports, public transportation, maritime, etc.). The Cincinnati chapter was founded in June 2007.

For more information, call COMTO president Carole Senior at (513) 632-9261 or by e-mail at CSenior@go-metro.com.

Here in Cincinnati we are lining up to implement a system of infrastructure transportation that we removed fifty years ago. Technologically speaking we are moving backwards. I feel we need to utilize modern technologies like the hydrogen fuel cell, methane gas, electric battery improvements, kinetic breaking, and like the Parry People Movers, the flywheel in order to create a clean system that will last through all environmental law changes of the next 60 years.

We do not have to have expensive and un-estheticly pleasing overhead electric lines; we can power the individual cars themselves using a hydrogen fuel cell. It is time to think beyond the dirty system of the late 1800's; incorporate modern technologies.

I am not suggesting that we hire this company necessarily but at least look at the alternatives in powering the system.

Hydrogen fuel cell technology could run the proposed Cincinnati street car and light rail systems. Harnessing hydrogen will be essential for humans to being non toxic.

KUDOS Ohio! Eliminating the license plate fee for Purple Heart recipients is a great way to directly cut expenses to war veterans while sending the message that the government cares about their sacrifices. My father was injured in Vietnam, the tormenting experience has permanently affected the way he thinks and has been able to handle his life, he lost his middle finger to shrapnel. He just returned home from the BMV beaming, "Guess what!" He asked. I thought he had just won the lottery. "Purple Heart recipients get their license plates for free" he said almost with tears in his eyes.

Way to go, Ohio! This kind of legislation has a direct influence in the lives of veterans as well as offering them some financial relief as they spend more on medications and health care. If you could have seen his face you would know the positive impact this legislation has had on at least one veteran. Thank you

Fun with Lexicon
Lexicon is Facebook’s data mining software that currently is being sold to the highest bidder; a sample of which is available for Facebook users here @Lexicon. The stripped down Lexicon program available to everyone can graph up to five, two-word phrases quantifying the amount of times a word or phrase was written on a Facebook “wall” over the last year.

For marketers and major corporations this technology and data base can remove a lot of the risk involved with business investment decisions by testing society in order to understand exactly what will work and what will not work avoiding costly and time consuming market research studies. Privacy advocates, on the other hand, believe that their information should not be used for purposes that they did not intend for.

For now, it’s time to “have fun, with Lexicon!” Yay (play music) confetti falls from the sky…Yay. Check out some of my Lexicon graphs

You must have a Facebook account to see these and be logged in. Not my rules...enjoy.

Ford, Toyota, Volkswagon, GM, Chevy
Bored, Happy, Sad, Lonely, Curious
Good, Bad
Sell, Trade, Buy, Rent, Steal
rss, atom, sitemap
Born, Died
Hooked up, Broke up,Brake up, married, divorce
Married, Divorce, Bitch
Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, Buddhist
Abortion, Pro choice, Pro life
Fraternity, Soroity, Frat house, Off capus, Dorms
Loan, Broke, Worried, Second job, Stripper
Pepsi, Coke, Mountain Dew, Red Bull, Water

Scoble's FF conversation on privacy w/ great links about social network sites Terms of Service (TOS)

Everyone loves houseplants. They are natural air purifiers and excellent decoration that add to our indoor environment, but they are finicky and can easily die for who knows why.

Houseplants are very sensitive to a wide variety of factors including the amount of water they receive, the temperature in the house, the amount of sunlight they receive, the amount of humidity in the air, the nutrient that make up of the soil (NPK+), and the soil acidity level; changes in any of these factors can make the plant die quickly. Even getting the houses environmental settings correct to have successful houseplants is hard enough, akin to stabilizing a patient on a psychological medication regiment. Too much or too little of one thing can cause great disturbances in the life of the plant resulting in your plant running around a grocery store at 3 AM talking to itself and tweeting it's new friends. Must I bring up the theoretical occurrence of plant AI, I believe they already communicate consciously but if they join the tech revolution and start tweeting they will find that the friend takes better care of their plants and not like you anymore? Maybe they will get bored with being immobile and want to hit the road?

Whatever, I like the plant communicator/text messager as well as the neglected plants Tweeting other plants for help idea

If the plant communicator, as well as the twitter app, can be made effective and tell you what the plant needs then they should be able to sell enough of them to keep their cost reasonable.

Face it; everybody wants houseplants, but not everybody knows how or has the time to take care of them. This product could be very useful and save a lot of headache.

PETA's "vegetarians have better sex" video from the Huffington Post

The most popular video of the year could be the one that didn't play

If the networks refuse to air your commercial then you have found the perfect success, the fuel and spark for the masses to go to Youtube or Google search and watch your "forbidden video".

Peta's vegetables and sex video has been rejected by NBC for viewing among the other beer and sex, race cars and sex, and cheeseburgers and sex ads that adorn the commercial breaks of the superbowl. It took me one second to Google search the "forebidden" video on Newsweek online.

I had to watch the video to judge for myself if it violated some kind of line of "decency" in commercial advertising; an oxymoron I know. I had to watch to know what people are referring to around the water cooler, it is a social story now that your views of the rejection of the commercial identifies your own "moral" position.

Commercial advertising now pays to go over the top. There are so many outlets for your commercial to be aired other than the commercial on t.v.; kudos for PETA for finding a way to get the press they wanted without paying for the hefty superbowl commercial fees.

Thank youPETA for the excellent lesson in marketing and advertising.

I have been active on the social network site Twitter for only several months but due to the nature of the people I am following I have an outlet for hundreds of quality links that are relevant and up to date on everything that interest me. I must admit though that my time on twitter is intense; it is a powerful place that I give myself time to go there because I will be turned on to something cool, and I'll want to explore something that I did not know before.

That is what twitter does for me, it takes me to something that I did not know before. The amount of links that comes through twitter feels intense, akin to shutting your eyes and looking at the sun come through trees as you pass by in a car, or like the little light on a desktop that blinks schizophrenically as info is processed through your PC; it can be intense. It's worth it, but beware, manage your time well because there is a lot to learn there; and it would suck to end up in a twitter twelve step.

DRM stands for Digital Rights Management; DRM is achieved using code written into the music file transfer that makes the digital song nontransferable to other music players and computers. Effectively eliminating the ability to share songs directly from mp3 player to mp3 player but not disabling the user from burning a CD and ripping the CD to other computers.

Yeah, musicians need to make money, but does digital rights management have the artist in mind? Many artist I talk to want their music to be shared and popularized; if an artist can get onto the national scene they can possibly sustain themselves financially and grow as a musicians. If they become popular people will buy more of their music and the opportunities to play live will increase with the visibility they receive from file sharing.

Here is an example related to me from a close friend of how sharing music helps musicians become popular around the world. My friend bought a hot local salsa band's album for ten dollars from CDBaby @http://cdbaby.com/ to give to his professional dancer sister-in-law for Christmas. He also burned a copy for his wife who is a grad student in Montreal and his brother-in-law who is a musician living in Hartford Conn. After Christmas the family disbanded and the professional dancer and musician husband went out dancing with other world class salsa dancers in a crowded loft party. The sister in law, having liked what she heard, put the album in the stereo that is driving the frantic dancing session. Now, twenty fellow salsa dancers, who are not close enough to share music with for free, are "turned on" to a new band and ask many times "Who is this"?
Now, twenty dancers have found a new hot salsa band and will most likely go home, buy the album themselves and take the music to their local scene.
At the same time my friends wife returns to grad school and after her dinner party plays the album to a classy group of young professionals experiencing similar results as the professional dancer. The young professionals then go become friends with the band on MySpace and buy their album making the band popular on the campus in downtown Montreal. Quickly, because of file sharing, this band becomes hot in several major markets in two countries. Now these markets have become viable locations for that band to go there and play live to a full venue of fans, selling more albums, making money for the live show, and spreading their influence growing their band financially and artistically.

Who is making the decisions to charge more for the artist music, the bands? Or the suits who sell the music. I must commend CDBabay @http://cdbaby.com/ and @http://www.vulpvibe.com/for making sure the artist recieve 91% of the sale of the albums they sell online! Prior digital sales the artist received 30% at most.

It seems that when music sales are interpreted in the millions and tens of millions the percentages of DRM become arguable and arguments ensue; but the reality of music enjoyment, sustainability of musicians, and creative expression does not exist in these percentages. Music is free, make it!

Final word: If you don't like the charge for DRM, don't buy it. It seems to me that DRM is only a speed bump so that a song does not bluetooth it's way across the country; not a big issue if you burn and rip.

For great music distributors dedicated to ensuring musicians get paid for their art check out CDbaby.com and vulpvibe.com

CDbaby.com Online Music Store

VulpVibe.com online electronic music store

Let me know how YOU feel about DRM...