Archive for May, 2007
Saturday, May 26th, 2007
Operation Gore Watch: Al Gore invades Upper East Side!!!
Fun stuff. Read about it in New York Magazine’s Daily Intelligencer from yesterday.
Big ups to the 92nd Street YMCA. They always manage to get good speakers up there.
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Saturday, May 26th, 2007
Chicago 2016 Update: Chicago Defender’s Managing Editor Glenn Reedus weighs in on Olympic bid
It’s about time we heard from the other side of the table.
Those who would be directly affected by the Chicago 2016 Olympic games are finally starting to weigh in. I just read a refreshingly candid editorial in yesterday’s Chicago Defender, written by managing editor Glenn Reedus.
He writes:
“Some of the residents of Washington Park and […]
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Friday, May 25th, 2007
Site of the Day: JohnChow.com
Ahh, the source of my blog-related inspiration over the last couple of days. John Chow, a British Columbia-based Web marketer, is the bee’s knees on the Web. His site offers tons of advice to beginning bloggers - like me - on blog etiquette and Web marketing, which is something any good blogger does.
Here’s […]
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Friday, May 25th, 2007
Dr. Daniel’s report: A daily drop of booze may slow dementia in seniors
Finally, a good bit of medical news!
According to a study in this week’s Neurology journal, a drink a day can help seniors deal with the effects of Alzheimer’s. Of course, a drink may only help those with mild cognitive impairment. (But with many people, how can you tell?)
Unfortunately, the study didn’t state which […]
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Friday, May 25th, 2007
Not-so noble experiment: Cracking John Chow’s Top 10 commentator list. (I’m #1!)
After checking out John Chow’s site innocently enough yesterday, I decided to test something out.
On his right sidebar, he lists all of the top commentators in an effort to help boost traffic and interactivity. And it probably gets him a ton of traffic and page views out of his site. I mustered up […]
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Friday, May 25th, 2007
Chicago 2016 Update: Chicago in if bowling included for 2016 Games?
Ah, I just got a funny image in my head after reading this story, which originally appeared in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
The inclusion of bowling in the 2016 Olympics could actually happen, according to the story. Thing is, the World Tenpin Bowling Association has an amateurs-only rule for bowling on the international stage, unlike, say, […]
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Friday, May 25th, 2007
Video of the Day: Mike Jones - ‘My 64′ (feat. Snoop Dogg, Bun-B)
I’m not usually a Mike Jones fan, but I had to link you all to this, given where the beat is sampled from.
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Thursday, May 24th, 2007
Video of the Day: Fabolous, Cassidy, Swizz Beatz - ‘Big Things Poppin’ (remix)
A few days ago, I posted the music video for T.I.’s latest single, “Big Things Poppin.”
Here’s a hot remix over that beat, performed by Fabolous, Cassidy and Swizz Beatz:
Fabolous has been doing his thing lately, and he’s set to drop his new album, “From Nothin to Somethin,” on June 12.
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Thursday, May 24th, 2007
Ferk and Bigelow on Time.com
Congratulations to Eric Ferkenhoff and Matt Bigelow for their Time.com piece. (Ferk is a professor at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and Bigs is a classmate of mine.)
The piece addresses an interesting question: Can Mayor Richard M. Daley make true on his pledge to end homelessness in Chicago by 2012? If […]
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Thursday, May 24th, 2007
Kudos: Google Analytics stats for first month of DanielHonigman.com - 1,000 visitors!!
Here you go. I finally broke the 1,000 mark for the first month of DanielHonigman.com! If not for you folks, my readers, I wouldn’t have reached this plateau, nor would I continue to blog.
Thanks to my buddy Tim Spangler for sending me some traffic. Hopefully I’m sending him some as well.
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