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April 25, 2009

Madison Yard Sales [Mashup of Google Maps and Craigslist]

Its yard-sale season. The website yardsaletreasuremap.com works for mapping out all the yard sales posted on craiglist overtop google maps mashup .

It is very useful in helping which neighborhoods have the sales going on, some areas of town have better garage sales than others.

Its also useful in that you can plan and organize your day with step by step google map directions . Overall, the visualization of the craigslist data on google maps portrays much more information, much quicker than craigslist , or a newspaper alone! I highly recommend the Yard Sale Treasure Map .

Filed under // craigslist directions garage sale google google maps Madison madison.com mashup shorewood hills yard sale yardsaletreasuremap

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April 13, 2009

Madison, Medicine, and Efficiency: One Blog on Multiple Topics, or Multiple Blogs on Single Topics?

I was inspired to make some updates on the blog after watching Michael Hyatt's presentation about blogging.

He is the CEO of one of the major publishing companies , and has effectively been blogging since the late 90s.

What I did - updated some of the old posts , including embedding videos directly , clarifying the titles & adding tags to the older posts . Posterous did not allow tags early on. I also added google analytics , we'll see if that helps any of the blog's googlejuice (as explained in the book What Would Google Do?) .

I have been thinking about splitting off into 3 separate blogs, for the 3 main topics that I blog about: Madison , Medicine , and Efficiency . Michael Hyatt & Jay Parkinson keep all of their posts together, even if there is not exactly one common theme, but many themes. Other successful bloggers such as Joshua Schwimmer (from KidneyNotes , EfficientMD , TechMedicine ) successfully run multiple blogs.

The advantage of having a single blog is the ease in continuing to post, and the simplicity in posting. The advantage of multiple blogs would be more focused posts, with a unified theme and more relevance to the individual reader. Google could find my posts easier, and deem me relevant if I ran multiple focused blogs.

Thoughts?

Filed under // blog efficiency google gtd jay parkinson Joshua Schwimmer Madison Medicine Michael Hyatt wwgd

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April 4, 2009

Time Lapsed Map of Growth in Madison, WI

From Trulia Hindsight , described by Stamen Design :

"Trulia, a real estate search, aggregation, and information site asked Stamen to help demonstrate the extent of their huge catalog of U.S. residential properties. Trulia Hindsight is an animated view onto their database, with an eye towards exposing patterns of expansion and development through home construction dates."

See the video of Madison, WI

Filed under // data Lake Mendota Lake Monona Madison real estate visualization Wisconsin

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March 24, 2009

Interactive Madison Maps: Crime Statistics, Property Taxes & Transactions

Interesting information for current, future, and prospective Madison residents. Also interesting for those in journalism, the WSJ is showing their web-ability and future value as more than just a print company.

Via Madison.com , the Wisconsin State Journal has a well designed database archive including:

Madison snow parking tickets

Madison census population estimates

Madison Fined Child-care Providers 1998-2008

Wisconsin Supreme Court Contributions

UW-Madison Salaries -- note Barry Alvarez makes more than the current coach!

Golf Guide

Wi-Fi spots in Madison

Juvenile Crime Arrest Rates

Property Tax Assessments

IRS Stimulus checks: are you owed one?

Declining Wisconsin Bridge Information

Crazylegs 2008 information

Farmer's Market Recipes

Carnival Ride Violations

Presidential Inauguration Donors

Home in a box - is your home a Sears design?

Filed under // census crazylegs crime statistics golf house hunting interactive guide Madison madison.com Obama parking tickets property value UW salaries wi-fi spots Wisconsin wisconsin state journal

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February 22, 2009