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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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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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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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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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Uw armory.





Sent from my iPhone

Filed under  //   armory   iphone photo   Madison   Wisconsin  

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Milo.

Even though its only 30 degrees outside, Milo loves the fresh air.

Taken with our new Nikon D40.

   
Click here to download:
Milo..zip (2198 KB)

Filed under  //   D40   Dog   Madison   Milo   Nikon   papillon  

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Fake tree + bubble lights.

Sent from my iPhone

Filed under  //   2008   bubble lights   christmas   Madison   tree   Wisconsin  

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Nap under the tree 2008





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Filed under  //   2008   christmas   Madison   real   tree   Wisconsin  

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Pumpkins!!!!!

Fun with no flash and new D40 Nikon D-SLR Camera .

see yes we carve for some quality.

http://yeswecarve.com/

                   
Click here to download:
Pumpkins.zip (14995 KB)

Filed under  //   Madison   nikon d40   pumpkins  

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Badger & Illini football game. Infamous band.

Sent from my iPhone

Filed under  //   badger   football   halftime   Madison   marching band   Wisconsin  

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