The Blog of Burgher Jon

About 90% of the people who land on this site today and tomorrow will come because, they are entrepreneurial or web type folks who read this blog.  The remaining  will be lovers of sauerkraut who keep landing here because Google doesn’t know the difference between spoiled cabbage and my weekly posting of my more interesting Twitter posts.  Well today I have something for both of you, www.PickledPlanet.com. It’s the website of a group of inventive, one could even say entrepreneurial people who LOVE sauerkraut.  They even have a business plan for once they grow to the point that they need employees.

Now on to the purpose of Sauerkraut Sundays… 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 use 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.

Me

• 17 pages of single spaced papers due tomorrow for the MBA.#FocusFace
• I remember the days when I’d play racquetball without stretching and not be sore at all the next days. #GettingOld
• Softly played blue grass and greasy food. Y’all come down now. (@ Philosopher’s Stone Tavern) http://4sq.com/5J6M4W
• I’m very excited to read this book, but probably won’t get a chance for a couple weeks. http://amzn.to/aOlNFQ

National Politics

• We don’t have to do what the supreme court tells us, as long as we have guns. (via colbert report)

Personal Technology

• ZocDoc (http://tcrn.ch/avxhkS) is just a great idea. I love it for the same reason I love Open Table (http://bit.ly/bzB5xh)
• Disappointing how little has been done with alternatives to the iPad:http://bit.ly/cBTdt3
• RT @betaworks: TweetDeck Turns Two, passes 15 Million Downloads http://tcrn.ch/dvlyRP

Pittsburgh

• Google in the PG this AM, goes beyond the details and makes some guesses on what it means to the city http://bit.ly/ckZ5zF
• Really interesting post from Chris Briem on the growth (in land area) of the city proper. http://bit.ly/aln9rm
• Buying beer in Pennsylvania is more complicated than buying a shotgun in Kentucky.
• Pittsburgh, land of the FIN corps that didn’t F-up. RT @PittsburghPG: Federated in $17B fund acquisitionhttp://bit.ly/dmowkm
• Dust off your old ECON books and think about the potential impacts of Marcellus Shale (via Chris Briem). http://bit.ly/bEEgih

Social Media

• Stopping payola in social by accountability. @sethgodin‘s complaint: http://bit.ly/bST9RN My Response: http://bit.ly/aRdfav

Sports

• Listening to Bob Walk and Steve Blass without Neverette, what are the chances of an @ScottDMcCauley for a Sept. callup.
• RT @ScottDMcCauley: delay gives us the time honored tradition of players lined along the dugout railing and scanning the crowd for girls.

Startups

• Venture Capital Investments up 34% (software up 70%), highest numbers since 2008. http://tcrn.ch/aRcAuV
• If you’re thinking of starting a small business, reading @AldoCoffee‘s Blog is not optional. http://bit.ly/90iDxw
• My company (@adaptivity) gets press from @BSatNWW (section titled “Getting Tough on Cloud Providers”) http://bit.ly/9ZtfYU

Technology News

• Surprising. Netflix passes Hulu in total US traffic.http://tcrn.ch/bNRczw
• WOW!!! That looks simple, Android App Inventor (a development tool) http://bit.ly/cvRiF5
• I bet giving away Amazon Prime for one year to college students is a test run for giving it to everyone. http://tcrn.ch/bNRczw

Unsolicited Advice

• Bestest is not a word… even if you’re really good friends… the answer is still NO!
• Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second. -William James
• RT @jencaple I find it interesting that it’s the one’s that constantly complain about their job & life that tell me to get a practical job & life
• Great post by @vwadhwa, unless you’re Steve Jobs, you should probably ask your customers what they think. http://bit.ly/cEpOqc

Other (Mostly Humorous Comments from the Week)

• Guess what kind of Pizza I’m having tonight… Hint: It’s not delivery.
• Whole different meaning in the south. RT @AFMJen RT @HeyItsNicoleA: There’s nothin like a British boy calling a girl “Sweetheart”.
• Morning Sex is a drink, so is a Martini. You can order Martinis dirty.#justsayin
• RT @davonmagwood I wanted pasta but drunk me is willing to settle for pizza rolls, I want fucking tatter tots!