The Blog of Burgher Jon

As I go through the week, I use twitter to send out little updates and links.  I realize that I do this quite a bit and that not all of you have Twitter, so with that in mind I’d like to take Sunday to do sort of a week in review.  I’ve selected the most useful of my tweets from the last week and placed them in to the categories that I use in this blog.  Please let me know if you find this useful or if you don’t like it.

Local Politics

• Good to hear from a coucil member RT @nataliarudiak Progress does not come from those who are content.

Me

• You know where you don’t want to be this morning? On my to-do list. Everything on that list is getting its ass kicked.

National Politics

• Pat Robertson says Haiti paying for “pact to the devil”. Gabriel forced to hide God’s lightning bolts.http://tinyurl.com/yjtavxs

Pittsburgh

• BitArmor now Trustwave Pittsburgh… Without terms, hard to tell if this is a good thing. http://tinyurl.com/yhzbets

Startups

• Specialized FourSquare Page for Harvard. Great potential ramifications: City tours, bar tours, shopping trips… http://tinyurl.com/yguwot2

Personal Technology

• It’s like the G Drive, but Google Allows It! http://tinyurl.com/ybkd6qp
• RT @cdixon privacy is dead when people open up their email inboxes to the public. Until then people are just managing their online persona.

Tech News

• Box.net CEO Levie speculates where on the cloud adoption curve enterprise IT is… completely forgets IaaS http://tinyurl.com/yfvldd8
• My post ( http://tinyurl.com/yljbago ) left out a way to monetize gaming, set up a cross-game marketplace. http://tinyurl.com/yang6b3
• The partnership between Microsoft and HP goes beyond the tablet. http://tinyurl.com/yamkztz

Sports

• Pete Carroll is a worse investment for Paul Allen then Windows ME was.
• I’m not a huge fan of one year contracts for guys without any years of control, but welcome Ryan Church. http://tinyurl.com/yklxxdf
• RT @Dejan_Kovacevic: First real baseball of 2010: Pitchers stretching on fields at Pirate City for opening of minicamp.

Uncategorized/Other

• RT @badbanana I hope Bette Midler sings to Conan on his last show.
• RT @bobmayo: Jay Leno Criticizes NBC On ‘Tonight’ Cliffhanger – ..in1992 http://bit.ly/6qNA88
• Twitter for Dummies? 266 pages? How can that be current? Helpful? Old media can’t teach new. http://twitgoo.com/bvbbt

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As I go through the week, I use twitter to send out little updates and links.  I realize that I do this quite a bit and that not all of you have Twitter, so with that in mind I’d like to take Sunday to do sort of a week in review.  I’ve selected the most useful of my tweets from the last week and placed them in to the categories that I use in this blog.  Please let me know if you find this useful or if you don’t like it.

Local Politics

• Brilliant line from @Bram_R, “if ‘everybody does’ that type of thing then everybody should go to jail.”   http://tinyurl.com/s7jff
• Congratulations to @nataliarudiak. Let’s see some action in the new term! http://tinyurl.com/ykn9xne
• Wait, this Darlene Harris is now council president? I hope Luke’s feeling healthy. http://tinyurl.com/yg5nbjf

Pittsburgh

• Only 20 days left for @Bram_R‘s Comet! Better get it while its hot!  http://tinyurl.com/yfgmk88

Startups

• Huge news out of the South Side, DynaVox to go public.  http://tinyurl.com/yh77mjh
• What makes an entrepreneur? Cojones! Good advice @suster, I followed a similar path to a startup as he did to a VC.  http://tinyurl.com/y9n55vg

Personal Technology

• If you’re in to gadgetry and internet videos / huluing TV. This could be the next big thing.   http://tinyurl.com/yfh9zph

Tech News

• Post from @fredwilson – The Nexus One enables organizations to “go Google.”    http://tinyurl.com/s7jff
• Interesting article on the similarities between the Android guy and Steve Jobs. http://tinyurl.com/yzpkz7y
• Great article on the use of web 2.0 technologies in marketing. Is 80% using social networking sustainable? http://tinyurl.com/s7jff

Sports

• PSU’s Nick “Obvious” Sukay, “Playing Alabama … next season will be a great motivator for us in the offseason.”http://tinyurl.com/yzwwsvo
• Interesting, the Pirates hired a mental specialist to improve composure, concentration and confidence.  http://tinyurl.com/yg4vg4u
• I hate saying it, but Pete Carroll was the best coach in the NCAA, good to see him go. http://tinyurl.com/yatoeow
• Navarro Bowman was a great player, with nothing to prove at the college level, unfortunately. http://tinyurl.com/ya3xtfx
• Ravens are going to win, thus endeth the Steelers’ season. Is it weird that I’m already psyched for the Buccos?