Additional thoughts from my post below. From Capitol Hill Seattle: But the weather wasn’t really the problem. The problem was information. Seattle was hit with a situation that required systems of communication and information distribution that it did not have. The city’s dying newspapers couldn’t keep up and City Hall’s various departments were too busy…
Month: September 2009
The website Thurston County doesn’t have
Recently I was part of a group that met twice to discuss redesigning Thurston County’s currently horrible website. To put it shortly, the website is a reflection of a lack of technical progress (the pages are still manually built from an html editor) and the disjointed governance of the county. The website being in the…
Good old R. Scott, still not being able to read and such
R. Scott, chair of the local loyal minor party, is mad at Karen Valenzuela and a copy editor at the Olympian because he can’t read. He’s mad because he thinks the commissioner’s campaign used incorrect language in a fundraising notice to the Olympian. In the top part of a notice in the Olympian (also in…
Sounders vs. Colorado back in June (soccer gameday report #2)
This summer I had a handful of equally unique soccer watching experiences. From Colorado to Bremerton, PDL, U.S. Open Cup and MLS, they made me think about soccer clubs. Like how they succeed, how they promote the sport and how they work as sporting organizations. The first delibertaly written report (the first is actually here…
Why I haven’t been blogging (why I haven’t been feeling it)
For at least the last eight years or so, in various forms, I’ve blogged pretty regularly. There have been times I’ve closed old blogs, stopped blogging at other people’s blogs and consolidated posts on this blog. Anyway, there have also been times I haven’t blogged for awhile, but since about January of this year, my…