Local blogging – it’s a start.
The DP has an interesting article this morning about the growing local blogging community (side note, I too want to be a blogist), which has been brought into focus, in my opinion, by Waldo. Cvilleblogs is a simple idea, and brilliant in its simplicity and…
Neighborhood Model – revisited?
This is potentially big news ... and a bit exciting. Courtesy of WINA. Citizen advocacy groups and some Albemarle Supervisors believe the new year will bring a renewed focus on the county's Neighborhood Model. There are vocal critics of Albemarle's approach to suburban sprawl who…
Not used to NoVa traffic, are you?
In a recent post regarding the dearth of senior housing in our region, I noted a new development coming to Greene County. One might think (as I did) that it would be a beneficial idea for this developer to provide some form of transportation for…
An eye-opening opinion on transportation
Read the first response to this post at The Road To Ruin. If you can, read the whole thing. ... new heavy rail systems appear much less energy-efficient than new bus services, when the energy needed to build roadways and track, the energy needed to…
Plagiarism and blogging
I came across this blog this morning that (I think accidentally) linked to one of my stories. I appears that he is copying and pasting my stories without attribution. Flattered? Upset? Robbed? Three of his eight stories are mine. It took me a little while…
Energy-effficient mortgages
Via Inman News: A relatively unknown financing option called the "energy efficient mortgage" might help consumers keep their homes cozy as well as keep the bills down. And after the first of the year, Uncle Sam will even kick in incentives, in the form of…
Smart growth raises housing prices?
Our region ought to learn from other regions' mistakes ... Thanks to the Washington Times: Economists increasingly are concluding that the shortage of affordable housing in Washington and other major U.S. cities on the East and West coasts is a result more of man-made restrictions…
RSS is about to step into the mainstream
I don't know quite how I stumbled onto this story, but it appears that Micro$oft is going to implement RSS into their next version of IE ... and they are going to use the Firefox icon to indicate when a feed is present. To those…
In search of the GenX Buyer
This article speaks to how I try to do business, and about one of the "target markets" with whom I like to think I work very well. Members of this age group care very much about HOW the entire sales process goes. Intangibles, like whether…