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Who Is Ann Arbor, And Why Are There So Many Movies About Her? - Dissociated Press
Someone actually asked me that once when I lived in San Francisco. For the uninitiated, Ann Arbor isn’t a woman, it’s a small college town in Michigan that at one time was as cool as say, Berkley, California, but has since slowly morphed into a dreary backwater of uptight Republicans and Liberal Elitists. Although it lays claim to being somehow hip and progressive, very little really happens here, and in spite of all the amazingly creative people in the area, nothing clever ever seems to escape the local scene. I jest a bit; I’m probably just being bitter because I’m tired of the place and too lazy to do anything about the fact. It’s actually a pretty cool town considering the fact that it’s only six square blocks surrounded by cornfields and strip malls.
annarbor  via:vielmetti 
march 2010 by bkerr
City of Ann Arbor - Data Catalog
Welcome to the first iteration of the City of Ann Arbor's Data Catalog website. This site is part of our ongoing commitment to enhance citizen participation and local government transparency. We are pleased to make City datasets freely available to the public in machine-readable formats.
annarbor  city  civic  data  gis  permits  safety-services  etc  tfyl 
february 2010 by bkerr
West Stadium Boulevard detours, public meeting notice and maps
Construction is expected to begin March 1 and be complete by November 2010.

One lane of westbound traffic will be maintained on West Stadium Blvd between Pauline and Seventh throughout the construction*. Eastbound traffic will be detoured via Pauline to Maple Road to Scio Church Road to Main Street to West Stadium Blvd. Detour Map (pdf)
a2docs  annarbor  road  detours 
february 2010 by bkerr
DDA | On a Mission to Strengthen Downtown Ann Arbor - Bicycle Parking Request
The Ann Arbor DDA installs and maintains bicycle hoops and on-street racks in the DDA area. In April, the DDA will re-install on-street bike racks and begin ordering new bicycle hoops for installation where needed.

If you know of a downtown location that could benefit from additional bicycle parking, you have noticed a hoop in need of repair, or an abandoned bicycle - we want to hear from you. Please use the following form to make requests related to bicycle parking in the DDA area.
annarbor  downtown  bicycle  hoops  bike  racks 
january 2010 by bkerr
getDowntown Blog | Be a Winter Warrior in Downtown Ann Arbor!
Saturday, February 6, 2010 Noon to 6pm

Become a Winter Warrior! This community event is all about encouraging the community to get outside and enjoy downtown Ann Arbor at a time of year during which coming outside is not quite so inviting. Restaurants and cafes will be bringing out their sidewalk furniture, and those guests who sit outside will enjoy specials such as $2 draught beers and $1 hot drinks (tea, coffee, soda, etc.). Some businesses may also be offering food specials. Guests will receive a stamp on their receipt redeemable at participating downtown retailers for special warrior discounts. This is our way of saying, “Thank you for coming out and supporting our downtown businesses and community!"
annarbor  cocytus 
january 2010 by bkerr
YouTube - WordPress and the Ann Arbor Chronicle
Laura Fisher talks about the choice to use WordPress for the Ann Arbor Chronicle news site. Founded by Mary Morgan and Dave Askins, the Ann Arbor Chronicle is an excellent example of the new citizen publishing that is spring up in response to newspaper closures.
annarbor  chronicle  wordpress  laura-fisher 
january 2010 by bkerr
Argo Dam Study By SME
A 61-page geotechnical evaluation report on the condition of Argo Dam's headrace embankment done by Soil and Materials Engineers Inc. of Plymouth on behalf of the city of Ann Arbor in fall of 2009.
annarbor  argo  dam  embankment 
december 2009 by bkerr
a2docs | Library Lot proposals
Proposals filed as responses to the City of Ann Arbor RFP for the Fifth Avenue "Library Lot" development.
annarbor  development  parking  lot 
november 2009 by bkerr
Crime maps - ArborWiki
A list of some sources for maps of crime in the area, including the data sources, the finished digital product, the finished print product, and summary analysis.
annarbor  washtenaw  crime  maps  geo  data 
november 2009 by bkerr
That's what they said | MetaFilter
The Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken Englishis a searchable collection of almost 2 million words of transcribed spoken English from the University of Michigan, including student study groups, office hours, dissertation defenses, and campus tours. Researchers use the Michigan corpus to investigate questions about usage, like "less or fewer?" (cf. this contentious Ask Meta thread) and more general topics, like "Vague Language in Academia."
umich  annarbor  transcription  language  usage  interesting 
november 2009 by bkerr
Ann Arbor - Open Everything
Friday, October 30th - Open Everything: Ann Arbor is a one-night 'unconference' bringing together people interested or involved in applying the principles of openness, transparency, and collaboration to the businesses, organizations, and networks we are a part of. It's far more than a discussion around technology and software; it's a conversation about the community in which we want to live and the ways in which we want to get there.
annarbor  events 
october 2009 by bkerr
The Ann Arbor Chronicle » Column: What’s to Fear in Healthcare Reform?
It is clear to me that the outcome we should be most afraid of is that which will occur if we do nothing. Then we will certainly have 1) rising percentage of our income paid for healthcare, 2) rising numbers of uninsured, 3) more small businesses failing, 4) decreasing ability of American industry to compete in the global market, and 5) rising inequity in income in the U.S. as executive salaries (from the insurance and pharmaceutical industries, for example!) keep sky-rocketing while individual and small business income suffers. Don’t fear the ridiculous myths of death panels or baby killing. Be worried about what is happening now.
annarbor  chronicle  health  column 
august 2009 by bkerr
Ann Arbor Area Government Document Repository [8-18-2009] Stadium Bridge Replacement Drawings
Asked at the Aug. 17, 2009 council meeter if he could provide electronic versions of large-format printed renderings posted at City Hall, engineer Michael Nearing sent The Ann Arbor Chronicle these documents the following day.
annarbor  stadium  bridge  replacement 
august 2009 by bkerr
The Ann Arbor Chronicle » FOIA Update: Printed vs. Electronic Records
The cost of a single CD-ROM is lower than several thousand sheets of paper, many of which bear an admonition to “Think Green!” and to print out the the email only if necessary.
annarbor  chronicle  city  council  e-mail  foia  failures 
june 2009 by bkerr
Paper Tiger No More: So, what do I think about AnnArbor.com?
"The absolute lack of specifics from Dearing as to what content goals the site will pursue makes me very, very nervous. If users will be able to get the same exact content on MLive, which they're already conditioned to go to, why would they go to AnnArbor.com? When asked that question, Dearing offered up a vague non-answer about better use of video. It should have been an easy question to answer."
annarbor  news  and-other-failures  froghat 
march 2009 by bkerr
Paper Tiger No More: Some inside info, new A2 News stories
"I cringed at quoting Jeff Jarvis in the AnnArbor.com story. Jarvis' opinion completely biased because he consulted on the new project (and was properly identified as doing so). He also used to run Internet strategy for Advance/Newhouse, which was pointedly not noted in the story. Put simply, Jarvis was a key part of the centralized approach to the Internet that discarded decades-old brands like the Cleveland Plain Dealer and The Newark Star-Ledger for Cleveland.com and NJ.com. He's part of the philosophy and hierarchy behind a system that always kept the Internet folks away from the newspaper folks. If you're going to quote Jeff Jarvis at all, you have to ask this: Why should you be involved in any project like this, given the struggles of Newhouse newspapers on the web?"
annarbor  news  buzzmachine  asshole  froghat 
march 2009 by bkerr
buh bye ad club • mitten rants, raves and muses about life, art and the web
"I wrote a note today to let them know their member search was broken. Apparently, they’ll fix it this summer and if it I want it sooner, then I should volunteer. Well, um, no - I don’t think so. I pay dues and those dues are supposed to provide me benefits. If I’m not getting dinner and I’m not getting exposure, then what, exactly are you doing with my membership dollars?"
annarbor  ad  club  and  other  failures 
march 2009 by bkerr
ArborWiki | Susan Pollay
"Susan Pollay is the executive director of the DDA. She served as part of the DDA team which chose to deny server access to a third-party website which aggregated and re-hosted the data. She provided several reasons for the access denial, which are summarized here."
susan-pollay  and  other  failures  arborwiki  annarbor 
march 2009 by bkerr
Ann Arbor Smackdown | MetaFilter
"Ann Arbor has proven that it can have a tempest in a teapot as ridiculous as those that occur on a daily basis in Berkeley" ... "Parking spots available over the web. Posthumanity is here."
annarbor  and  other  failures 
march 2009 by bkerr
The Ann Arbor Chronicle | Wiki Wednesday: Name Lists
"The whole idea of 'writing' an article for ArborWiki is probably not even the best way to think about it. ArborWiki is freely editable by anyone, which means that it’s possible to make a contribution to an article  just by filling in a missing date. A place. A dollar amount. A name."
annarbor  chronicle  wiki  wednesday  arborwiki 
february 2009 by bkerr
The Ann Arbor Chronicle | Column: Open Letter from a Distressed Bookseller
I remember the day "bookseller" stopped being a viable profession. Wishing Karl and Shaman Drum crew the best, but honestly I expect to see a sandwich shop in their storefront by fall.
annarbor  books  retail 
february 2009 by bkerr
Coworking A2
Mike Kessler's invitation to the January 27 meeting he's running to discuss his build-out of a coworking venue in your Village.
coworking  annarbor  party-like-it's-200x 
january 2009 by bkerr
Izzy Dot Net - Your Friendly Internet Service Provider
'Welcome to our home on the World Wide Web ... Are you looking for a way to link back to Izzy Dot Net? Check out our "link back" page for an assortment of linking graphics.'
annarbor  detritus  party-like-it's-199x  via:mahatm 
january 2009 by bkerr
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