Couple seemed happy, friends say

An Onion-esque headline from the RSS feed of my ol’ hometown paper err.. website : Couple seemed happy, friends say. I’m wondering if this type of ‘reportage’ has a name. The kind with really short, dramatic paragraphs: “First it just rang and rang.” and “She wasn’t there.” Kubickian? Do they teach this stuff?

A few suggestions for Prairie Fire newspaper

Several years ago, I spent serious chunk of time researching and planning how to start up a weekly paper. An “alt-weekly”, if you will. Omaha had its “Reader”, which had some Lincoln coverage. But there was nothing dedicated to the Lincoln community which provided the full range of what a good weekly paper covers – [...]

Going west, as a (not so young) young man

Fellow Nebraskan Ev has a good post on his experience leaving Nebraska for the Bay Area tech world, and chimes in on the need to be in the Valley to be in tech. “By staying in Nebraska, I relegated myself to spectator, even though I was trying to be a participant.” As someone who left [...]

News from the hometown

Highlights from tonight’s surfing through the hidden RSS feeds from my hometown newspaper, the Lincoln Journal Star Pet owner decries state of Doc White’s Pet Cemetery Spelling bee champ headed to Nebraska Oldest Nebraskan dies at age 113 Student apologizes for bomb threat

Virtual Lincoln

Whenever I get misty-eyed for Lincoln, I have found I can now get my virtual fix at roundus.com, which has some pretty nifty panoramas of various sites of interest in my hometown. My favorite shot by far is the Men’s room at Yia-Yia’s They you can browse a Google maps mashup showing locations of all [...]

Lincoln among nation’s top digital cities

Lincoln among nation’s top digital cities – Unfortunately the state legislature passed a law prohibiting Lincoln’s public power system from utilizing existing infrastructure for data services. Competition is fierce; I wonder if Lincoln can keep up.

Hacking journalstar.com RSS

I’ve recently switched over my RSS subscriptions to Google Reader. Google Reader makes reading and managing a high volume of RSS feeds so effortless and intuitive, I was inspired to visit some of the sites I hoped to add to my feed reading list. As a recent expatriate of Lincoln, Nebraska, naturally I wanted to [...]