I read Tom Colicchio’s think like a chef a few years ago. I thought it was a great book and it really helped me understand some fundamental techniques. I don’t recognize too many chefs’ names so when I saw his in this piece: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/even-top-chefs-have-picky-kids/ I was excited to see what he had to say about…

Hulu’s Superbowl Ad and the Boxee Fight – O’Reilly Radar The technology people want always wins in the end – no duh – and usually benefits the businesses who fought that technology to the death. Here’s hoping the technology people want – Boxee –…

Reminder: Wedgie Jackson, tomorrow night at Jamian’s in Red Bank. Looks like a good crowd.

A Brief History of Hyperlocal News You can’t serve online users the same way as newspapers or broadcasters serve regional audiences. The news and information demands are wildly different. It is not enough to reduce printing and…

An Open Conversation on Hyperlocal News | keithhopper.com Following a recent post and discussion on hyperlocal news, WBUR was kind enough to let me initiate an open discussion on the topic during their monthly meetup at the station. Around 15 people…

The results of my request for suggestions on sharing a PDF via the web for my neighborhood newsletter: http://tinyurl.com/aem4qw

Yesterday I posted a request on Twitter:  Looking for suggestions on a (free) web based file sharing site so I can share a link to a pdf file with a few hundred people. Since Twitter also posts to my Facebook page, I received a bunch of suggestions via twitter, email and FB so I figured…

Looking for suggestions on a (free) web based file sharing site so I can share a link to a pdf file with a few hundred people.

Tonight’s Menu: Boeuf en Daube, toasted baguette w/ warm brie. Then, molton chocolate cake (just made a trial one for Jay. fricken awesome).

NJ’s $2.7 billion shovel-ready projects in the stimulus package: http://tinyurl.com/bpcw4x (from the awesome stimuluswatch.org site).