Notes"Part of the library's dynamic growth is in its programming - the events it holds at its locations. In fact, the library is much more than a provider of circulating materials. It’s increasingly a venue for speakers, community organizations and a wide vaUnfurl
Notes"Part of the library's dynamic growth is in its programming - the events it holds at its locations. In fact, the library is much more than a provider of circulating materials. It’s increasingly a venue for speakers, community organizations and a wide vaUnfurl
Notes"There are people here who have been communicating with their neighbors by typing at them for long enough that it's second nature, and that makes writing a local blog about where to go juneberry picking (in front of the library) sound less like somethingUnfurl
Notes"There are people here who have been communicating with their neighbors by typing at them for long enough that it's second nature, and that makes writing a local blog about where to go juneberry picking (in front of the library) sound less like somethingUnfurl
Notes"In a conversation with an out-of-stater earlier this week, I was asked what’s going on in the Michigan technology community, and what were the groups to connect with?"Unfurl
Notes"But being tied to the house isn't the antidote for being tied to the office, which is why coworking – working together, but separately – is gaining momentum in Ann Arbor and around the world."Unfurl
Notes"On the Ann Arbor public library’s website you can find a wonderful example of how two local institutions — the library and the police department — can work together to curate an online exhibit"Unfurl
Notes"Most importantly, it got a diverse group of folks meeting each other, making connections, and reinforcing that we do have vibrant community of creative folks here in the midwest"Unfurl
Notes"We need to talk, to establish and then blend and grow communities, and use those interconnections to support our individual goals. We should have fun, and make things: software, businesses, money, social changes, art. And at the same time, we should explUnfurl
Notes"OCLC ran their software contest for the second year ... And Talis gathered an international team of judges to invite anyone, anywhere, to use anything in order to demonstrate an interesting new take on the library's online presence."Unfurl
Notes"The company, which provides software development consulting, has just opened an office in Ann Arbor which will open its doors as a third space of sorts for the local computer community."Unfurl
NotesKind of a fluff piece, doesn't tell me much about what's going on at Google A2. It's all "Wow, kooky Californian office space with weird carpet and massage chairs and sunlight! How can you get any work done?"Unfurl
Notes"Welcome to the AADL Developer Blog! Software Development is a big part of what we do here at AADL, and this section of aadl.org is the place to keep up with our new features, see what our developers are working on, and find out what kind of tools we're pUnfurl
Notes"Ann Arbor is to be home to Google's Adwords sales, one of the lowest status groups at the Googleplex. Those jobs, about as exciting as selling classifieds, are unlikely to persuade too many University of Michigan graduates to stay in the Rustbelt."Unfurl
Notes"Wizzywig, a downtown Ann Arbor store specializing in Japanese pop-culture collectables is moving. They are relocating their store front to the industrial park by the Ann Arbor Airport where there warehouse is."Unfurl
Notes"Next generation Internet marketing firm Pure Visibility has hired Edward Vielmetti, an Internet veteran recently recognized by the BBC News as a pioneer in Web usage."Unfurl
Notes"Starting in the research labs of the University of Michigan, and moving out into the surrounding community, Ann Arbor's conferencing systems were among the first to make sophisticated computer conferencing systems publicly available."Unfurl
Notes"the Pearl Comments Browser Extension, which adds a sidebar to popular web browsers such as Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer."Unfurl
Notes"Ann Arbor may become home to a new technology center for up to 1,000 employees from Google Inc., the Internet search engine giant that was recently hired to digitize the University of Michigan’s 19 libraries." Whoa. Neat, if true.Unfurl
Notes"Eight Gamecubes were networked together in a LAN, and the S-video outs of each station were taken to a Video Toaster rig, which in turn had its output fed to a projector."Unfurl
Notes"...some residents do not want to see the graffiti removed and worry about what could replace it." Personally, I loved the graffiti in Ann ArborUnfurl
Notes"As early as July 19, the Ann Arbor City Council could vote on and approve a measure to ban all porch couches, claiming they present a fire hazard and should not be allowed for the sake of safety." Nearly every house rented to students has a couch on theUnfurl
Notes"Somewhere around twenty people just stood up, for 53 days, against a multi-billion dollar corporation and the infamous union busting firm of Jackson Lewis..."Unfurl
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