I received a promo for the Pat Knight show from Texas Tech, the first I’ve seen since legendary basketball coach Bob Knight resigned earlier this month. I wonder if this would have been the local news this week had the elder Knight remained in Bloomington.
My Favorite Things
In an effort to raise my own spirits, and maintain focus on the positive, I’ve started a list. I keep it in my wonder woman book, which I attempt to carry with me at all times.
Bloomington Startup Weekend is underway
I’m exhausted. I had to schedule a night of sleep before the three-day marathon at City Hall, and it was difficult to fall asleep. It was amazing to see the council chambers fill up. Not all of our hundred hoosiers made it through the front door, but we generated a bunch of ideas with merit. The one we chose deals with event search.
Babies in Cages
Some of my fondest memories of childhood involve a pretend game in which I forced Meg to be my “baby” sister while I was her appointed guardian/rock star named Cyndi. I made little beds for her so she could nap while I stood on the window seat and belted out tunes from my grandmother’s Reader’s [...]
The Hoosier Hundred
A few moments ago, John Meylor became our 100th person to register for Bloomington Startup Weekend, achieving our final recruiting milestone. Future founders will gather in City Hall in Bloomington, Indiana on Friday to start pitching ideas for a new company.
The Midwest Tech Corridor
What will it take to become a high tech power in this country? Efforts like Smaller Indiana are trying to answer that question. While Indiana is not likely to sprout a new Google in the short-term, the future is necessarily built off of the communities with which we engage today. To that end, I invite and encourage readers with interests in information technology and design to start the process by joining local organizations