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Yesterday I had the pleasure to speak at a graduate seminar at UVM called Transportation Leadership. What follows are a list of links that I used in my talk…

• http://apps.vtrans.vermont.gov/vtransparency/Search.aspx
• http://www.walkscore.com/score/1-Main-Street-Burlington-VT
• http://gis.ci.burlington.vt.us/gm/
• http://www.tbd.com/blogs/tbd-on-foot/2010/12/metro-releases-real-time-bus-data-today-making-unpredictability-fully-transparent-5718.html
• http://developer.wmata.com/
• http://expressnightout.com/dcrider/nexttrain/station.php?id=81
• http://oobrien.com/vis/bikes/?city=washingtondc
• http://blog.programmableweb.com/2008/07/21/google-transit-feeds-and-mass-transit-mashups/
• http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/resourcecenter/teams/planning/gis.cfm
• http://www.programmableweb.com/mashups
• http://code.google.com/transit/spec/transit_feed_specification.html
• http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/transit/#mdy

I’ve come across a few gems in the recent past and until now, I haven’t shared them very widely.

From a neighbor, on the topic of the job of mayor:

“‘Mayor is the only job where people get mad at you when it snows.”

From a colleague of my friend Adam, on the app Twitter:

“Twitter is for brands that want to be more human, and humans that want to be brands.”

My own, on my initial impressions of my first iPhone:

“It’s amazing, really amazing. It’s great at everything… except being a phone.”

And similarly, on the iPad:

“The iPad is a mobile device, for your home.”

I love stuff like this. It makes me laugh. I think it’s one of the ways that I like to find joy in everyday life, because expressions are things I collect that remind me of the people I heard them from, or perhaps situations I was in.

I like this blog post by Guy Kawasaki on how small businesses can use LinkedIn. Worth a read:
Ten Ways for Small Businesses to Use LinkedIn

Earlier this month I appeared along with Ted Adler on a local community access program. The station is Channel 17 in Burlington, Vermont. The program focuses on local media. In our 30 minute conversation with host Lauren-Glenn Davitian we discuss issues of websites and social media, along with a bit of a history of our experience at Union Street Media.

http://www.cctv.org/watch-tv/programs/union-street-media

My friend Adam Bluestein has been writing a lot of interesting stuff on his blog lately about the field of synthetic biology. Here’s a recent post I found particularly interesting: Synthetic Biology West Coast Style.

American Public Media Works’ The Story on Wayne Goldman’s electric car in the 1970s.

Was looking for something on archive.org today and came across this: