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Life Lessons from the Donut & Coffee Guy Jason Kottke has a terrific post about a sidewalk stand that increases profits by improving trust. “Next!” said the coffee & donut man (who I’ll refer to as “Ralph”) from his tiny silver shop-on-wheels, one of many that dot Manhattan on weekday mornings. I stepped up to…

The article I referred to a few weeks ago is now out, by Joanna Weiss at the Boston Globe. Titled Blogs shake the political discourse, it’s a nice overview of the impact that blogs are having on the presidential campaign. The article takes a local focus — Oliver Willis (Dedham), and Jock Gill (Medford) are…

My itinerary today: 9:30am flight: Chicago – DC. Cancelled. (Got the last seat on the next flight, got in a half hour ahead of my meeting.) Got into DCA after my meeting to fly to Raleigh and noticed that flights to Raleigh were delayed 2-3 hours. Rather than wait until 8:45, I noticed the 5:30…

Over at my Dean campaign blog, I mentioned that I helped the campaign update the official campaign blog over the weekend. Specifically, we added permalinks to comments and added “mail this entry to a friend” functionality. Both are simple tweaks to Movable Type that greatly enhance the weblog. One of my readers asked how I…

Vermont Public Radio (VPR) will have Howard on live from Iowa this Thursday, July 24, from 7pm-8:30pm(east-coast time.) If you can’t tune in VPR in your area, you can listen live on their website. This is part of their Switchboard series which is a call-in show that Howard appeared on frequently while Governor.

New from the DoD and Accenture: “eDemocracy” Think web elections are a long way off? Think again. A lucky few American citizens will be able to vote online in the upcoming 2004 presidential elections, thanks to a Department of Defense project called SERVE. [via kuro5hin.org] nbsp

We did a little tinkering over at the official campaign blog this afternoon. With the watchful eye of Mathew Gross over my virtual shoulder, we overhauled several things: Comments now have permalinks. If you see something that someone says that you want to share, you can now share it by simply copying the link next…

JRobb is Back! John Robb is back, located now at MindPlex.org. [via Bryan Strawser

Like Matthew Langer, I have long been an admirer of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (I have my high school history teacher — Winslow Smith — to thank for that.) For that reason, I quote in its entirety Matthew’s post from earlier today. I completely agree with him — this is breathtaking. I read a lot of…

So I got interested in Google’s new AdSense program. It doesn’t cost much to run this blog (all told, hosting and software costs run about $300/year), but I figured the AdSense program might be a nice way to recoup just a tiny bit of the investment. So I signed up. Here is the e-mail thread…