Category Archives: Update

Durham Hoods article in the Durham News!

Thanks to News & Observer reporter Jim Wise for a great article in the Durham News! Read it here!

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Changes to the Map

Hi everyone! Recently I got an email from Google letting me know that their “Classic Maps” platform will be going away. Unfortunately, “Classic Maps” is what this website’s maps are built upon. Their replacement Custom Map application is quite different … Continue reading

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Nextdoor.com

Pretty cool interface. Lots of Durham neighborhoods listed. Only a little bit buggy. If your mailing list isn’t working for you, you might want to check out nextdoor.com. Thanks to my Super-Neighbor Bill Anderson for the tip.

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NCTech4Good Meetup Talk

I was recently invited by Paula Jones to give a short talk for NCTech4Good‘s monthly Meetup (held the third Wednesday each month from 6:30-8:30pm). In addition to being an event organizer for NCTech4Good, Paula is also the Director of Technology … Continue reading

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Action Items

A little update, no big deal. Recently, I gave a little talk to some friends, and I’ll do a little write-up about that within the week. Most everything else has to do with me tidying up the website. The site … Continue reading

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Migration to Fusion Tables

Google Maps is increasingly wonky. I’m seriously tinkering with Fusion Tables, not because it seems more reliable, but because it’s more current. Google has a way of letting their older, creakier products rust. Here’s an image of what I’m seeing … Continue reading

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Meet Durham’s Newest Neighborhood Mailing List

Neighborhood: Stadium Heights Current membership: 1 The moderator, Derrick, moved to Stadium Heights last June with his wife and found that there was an awesome community, but no mailing list. Thanks to Kevin’s article last Monday though, he decided to … Continue reading

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RSS Feed Edit

Another visitor wrote in about RSS feeds displaying incorrectly. I can independently confirm this problem from where I’m sitting. Despite being a very nice platform, WordPress can be buggy from time to time. This particular issue will not allow readers … Continue reading

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A Word About Nomenclature

Thanks to a wonderful post at Bull City Rising, I have been getting unprecedented traffic this morning. With traffic, comes suggestions. Many suggestions. It will take time to implement them all. But hey, keep them coming. This is our city … Continue reading

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Future Plans and Current Priorities

To do list: I’d like to try to publicize this project in order to increase exposure to the most important demographic: Durhamites that are not yet connected via listservs electronic mailing lists. I’ll probably reach out to Bull City Rising … Continue reading

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