• Google Maps And Twitter Are Essential Information Resources For California Fires – Digital Life Blog – InformationWeek
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Wow. I leave town with the family for a much needed vacation and SoCal bursts into flames. That sucks. Even a MindTouch-er has been evacuated: Ken. Also, Henry, my oldest friend was being evacuated last I heard, but I haven’t heard from him for a couple days now. Everyone is safe, it seems, but everyone at MindTouch, as you might suspect, has friends and family being affected. Tara especially knows many families through her parent/moms groups and classes. We wish everyone the best.

We plan to head south Friday and intend to get home Saturday. I figured we could give Ashby a break from the drive somewhere. With about a million evacuated I’m not sure which the best route is. We’re in Tahoe right now; so the best route I can figure is here. This assumes that, at least, three fires are cleared up by Friday and Hwy 15 is open. I’m sure they will be, but if they are not I have no idea how we’re getting into town.

Thanks to folks like Nate Ritter I can tune in on twitter. Also, here are some useful maps:

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Credit to Mitch Wagner at InfomationWeek.com. Thanks Nate and Mitch. I hope everyone is safe and well.

After posting here I realized MindTouch Deki Wiki could be pretty useful here. So, I put together an aggregation page and posted about it. I hope it helps.

San Diego Fires | MindTouch Blog
Today was the first day I’ve had an Internet connection other than my phone and I just finished quickly throwing together this wiki page as a resource for the San Diego and Southern California fires. I hope it helps some folks. It’s aggregating a bunch feeds, vids, photos, maps mashups, etc in one central location and should provide a fairly comprehensive resource. Feel free to add to it. Nate Ritter and others have put many technologies into action to help out. I’m basically just pulling in their work. Thanks Nate, KPBS, the Governor’s office, and others. Best of luck to everyone.

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Last week, Aaron and I spent some quality time with Scoble. This is a short, fun interview where we cover some known ground, hint at things to come, and subtly poke fun at the competition. Hope you enjoy it too!

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Aaron also gave a demo of Deki Wiki afterwards. It’s about 10 minutes long.

uncov, uncovering web2
Sure, Zoho Sheet is free, but so is gonorrhea.

Within Silicon Valley, innovation is defined as making something web-based with a snazzier UI.

Yah. That pretty much sums it up. What happened to Kyle? Ted is so…Ted. Bring more voices. I’m getting tired of that prick Ted. Ok, so I was until this post.

• iJailbreak released! – Automatically jailbreak your iPod touch! (For Mac )
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This isn’t a complete MeFeed, but close enough. You get the idea. It’s a crap load of my feeds that are all Unioned to produce a MeFeed.

• Minnedemo – Hot Damn!
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• HOWTO make crystal clear ice
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• Featured Windows Download: Create Motivational Posters with Poster Forge
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• Red Hat, Novell sued for patent infringement | Underexposed – CNET News.com
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• Social Media: You Built it; Now What? | WebProNews
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• Stupid Monsters someone was paid to make = the best job ever.
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• MindTouch Deki Wiki: DekiScript, Mashups, and More…
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• The Right Brain vs Left Brain test | PerthNow
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• Deki Wiki on WOS – MindTouch OpenGarden.org Forums
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I think I’m getting better at making these vids. This one seems pretty natural. 🙂 I quickly cover DekiScript (barely mention it), show a couple mashups, and intro the Desktop Connector.