Jim Willis

  • Reminder: Wedgie Jackson, tomorrow night at Jamian’s in Red Bank. Looks like a good crowd.

  • An Open Conversation on Hyperlocal News | keithhopper.com

    An Open Conversation on Hyperlocal News | keithhopper.com

    Following a recent post and discussion on hyperlocal news, WBUR was kind enough to let me initiate an open discussion on the topic during their monthly meetup at the station. Around 15 people…

  • A Brief History of Hyperlocal News

    A Brief History of Hyperlocal News

    You can’t serve online users the same way as newspapers or broadcasters serve regional audiences. The news and information demands are wildly different. It is not enough to reduce printing and…

  • The results of my request for suggestions on sharing a PDF via the web for my neighborhood newsletter: http://tinyurl.com/aem4qw

  • sharing a PDF via the web

    Yesterday I posted a request on Twitter:  Looking for suggestions on a (free) web based file sharing site so I can share a link to a pdf file with a few hundred people.

    Since Twitter also posts to my Facebook page, I received a bunch of suggestions via twitter, email and FB so I figured I’d share the results here:

    • pdfvue.com
    • box.net
    • mediafire.com
    • yousendit.com
    • “build a wiki”  (closest to what I actually did)
    • sendspace.com

    As far as the above options went, box.net looked to be exactly what I was looking for but cost about $8/month and I don’t think I’d use it that frequently to make it worth it. 

    I run a email newsletter for my neighborhood in Red Bank, NJ and was looking for a way to share a PDF file with the neighbors without having to attach it to the email message. Because I hope to someday be able to delagate some of the newsletter building to other neighbors I didn’t want a solution that was tied to FTP or SCP’ing the file up to my banyansocialtech.com server. Hence, the looking for something like box.net. Anyway, in the end I setup WebDAV on my apache server so that next time around the newsletter writer can just drop the pdf file into a folder. Browsing and determining the resultant URL will probably be a bit of a pain but not a pain so large as I’d spend $8/mo to alleviate.

  • Looking for suggestions on a (free) web based file sharing site so I can share a link to a pdf file with a few hundred people.

  • Tonight’s Menu: Boeuf en Daube, toasted baguette w/ warm brie. Then, molton chocolate cake (just made a trial one for Jay. fricken awesome).

  • NJ’s $2.7 billion shovel-ready projects in the stimulus package: http://tinyurl.com/bpcw4x (from the awesome stimuluswatch.org site).

  • Looking for a sysadmin with 7+ years exp. for a 21hr/week gig in Red Bank, NJ area. Will help migrate client off of MS Exchange. Email me.

  • Bright Saturday-morning sun refracts off the snow onto my kitchen walls while I make the kids blueberry pancakes and listen to Lloyd Cole

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  • Read: Manufactured Anxiety: How Self-Improvement Became a Self Destruct Sequence
    Who profits from our constant state of dissatisfaction? The answer, of course, is painfully obvious. Every industry that sells a solution to a problem you […]
  • Read: My Friends Aren’t Reading
    the shifts have been in place for awhile. A certain kind of book—say those reviewed in the NYRB—will become like opera, or theater, or ballet, […]
  • Read: Pema Chödrön’s Three Methods for Working with Chaos
    • No more struggle: “Whatever arises, train again and again in seeing it for what it is. The innermost essence of mind is without bias. […]
  • Read: Why Not Bluesky
    The real problem, in my mind, isn’t in the nature of this particular Venture-Capital operation. Because the whole raison-d’etre of Venture Capital is to make […]
  • Read: The Tech Coup
    . The EU invokes a mechanism called the precautionary principle in cases where an innovation, such as GMOs, has not yet been sufficiently researched for […]

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