A Little Turkey Shuffle for Thanksgiving
In honor of the Thanksgiving holiday here in the United States, I wanted to share some Chris Stuart with you. In 2003, Californian Chris Stuart & Backcountry released a nice Americana/bluegrass album called Saints & Strangers.  I played it on KRFC-FM and I wish I had the album now. The title track related to the original immigrants [...]

FCC Sets Drop Dead Date on Wireless Sites
Planning & zoning professionals seem to have greeted with deafening silence the FCC decision last week on wireless tower siting timelines.  The press release begins: In a Declaratory Ruling (“Ruling”) adopted today [18.11.09], the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) cleared the way for broadband deployment by establishing timeframes of 90 days for collocations and 150 days for [...]

Microblog Weekly Updates for 2009-11-22
Thoughts on Creative Commons:you're either open, or not. http://bit.ly/2SRQuZ/ # highly educated people smoke less RT @Richard_Florida http://www.creativeclass.com/creative_class/2009/11/17/the-geography-of-smoking/ # See that twitter is still tweeking re-tweet repeat. # @sarawatkins http://twitpic.com/j31oc – Love this street in Oak Park. Don't see artisanship like this often. # In a train mood RT @JohnScout 2.0 Scoutmaster Minute—The Station: Stop pacing the aisles and [...]

Cadillac Sky on Mountain Stage
Bryan Simpson from Cadillac Sky talks about the band and their music during their visit to public radio’s Mountain Stage.   Not the best quality on the stage sound on the video, but nice insight on where these young guys are and where they think they’re going. C-Sky came out of the Southern bluegrass scene in [...]

Trendwatching
Busy, busy, busy.  Busy is a good thing, but too often I let the urgent push out the important.  So many bright, shiny objects floating around Web 2.0 these days. One of those bright-shiny do-dads is Trendwatching.com and their monthly briefing.  Yes, I know, trends have been a trend since before trend watching was cool.  New [...]