Carter and company brave the highway on their own to start a new year of school.
First Day of School
The Local Tweet Stream
I’m not sure why it didn’t occur to me to do this sooner, but thanks to Google, I’ve got a list of local Twitterers. Imagine the potential marketing boon if attendees at the Lotus Music Festival expressed themselves with a few tweets from the event. Finding the early adopters in the area is the first step toward creating a local information identity.
Promises promises
At the pool Tuesday Carter was looking pensive.
Carter: Mommy? If you hadn’t married Daddy, who would you have married?
Me: Well, Daddy’s pretty special- it’s hard to imagine anyone being quite like him. Why do you ask?
Carter: Maddie said she’d marry me this morning, and I’m not sure I want to get married quite yet. [...]
School smarts
Carter was going on about his school hopes this morning:
Carter: and I hope that Joe Schmoe is in our class this year. He’s clearly the smartest kid in our class, so I like being around him.
Me: (only half-awake) How do you know who is smart?
Carter: Because they are always blabbering out facts and things.
Me: hmmmm. [...]
Bloomington not yet a’Twitter
As I sat in the Bloomington Bagel Company Tuesday morning waiting for people to earn their $5 gift certificates by participating in a painless user study, I received a tweet from Ben Fulton:
Local paper is liveblogging the Monroe County Budget meeting. Pretty cool, too bad you have to be a subscriber though.
In that little splash from my personal information stream, I saw a glimpse of the future. Among other things, it involves more Twitter.
Fun Week
I still can’t gather my thoughts- searching for something deep and meaningful to capture last week- so I guess I’ll rely on pictures to do the job for me, at least temporarily. Last week we got to introduce our kids to each other- either for the first time, or getting reacquainted.
“Hey dude, when did you get so fat and happy?”
$2b or not $2b
Since AltSearchEngines announced their essay contest last week, I had spent some time thinking about what it would take to raise the next 100 search engines on the market collectively into fourth place in a market dominated by Google, Yahoo! and MSN. Two percent of market translates into about $2 billion, so that would be no small feat. My entry did get a mention, but the designerly images didn’t make the cut. So, I’ve reproduced them here.