Be Kind. It Matters
Reupping this story from April. This encounter has stuck with me. In early January I was returning a gift, and tried to get it put back on my wife’s credit card, which I didn’t have. The young girl working at the counter tried to make…
Deleting Facebook – An Experiment (Part 1 of 2)
"If you're not the customer, you're the product," as the saying goes. I am tired of being the product.* I have a new facebook account; the old one is deactivated. Why? I've long said I hate facebook, but use it because I must - for RealCrozetVA community,…
Public Spaces in Private Spaces – What’s the Balance?
What if ... the only available public spaces to freely assemble are private? The forthcoming Market Plaza in Downtown Charlottesville is going to be a massive project, Market Plaza will feature 68 residential units, 55,000 square feet of office space and 10,000 square feet of retail…
Looking For Christmas Trees and Lights in Charlottesville?
This is last year's post with Christmas tree farms and locations - I'll update it this year, if anything has changed.
This is a Test – A Google Plus Test
As much as anything, I'm testing Google + embedding, but also prefacing an upcoming post preliminarily titled "The Troubling Transience of the Web" But the question remains - does a poorly-proofed story diminish its credibility? (more…)
The HooK Closes
Damn. One of the most pressing questions is posed on cvillenews: And what of The Hook's website? There are 12 years of vital, historically significant news coverage there, available to anybody using Google. The loss of that archive—like the once-deep web-based archives of The Cavalier…
TEDx Coming to Charlottesville
TEDx is coming to Charlottesville 15 November 2013. n Friday, November 15th 2013, TEDxCharlottesville will host its first TEDx event, “The Difference That Makes a Difference” at The Paramount Theater in Charlottesville, Virginia with a special satellite stream at The Jefferson Theater. “The Difference That…
Charlottesville is Brainy – For Everyone & For Those Under 35
No, really, Charlottesville is the 15th brainiest metro area in the US.From the Atlantic Cities article: Lumosity data scientist Daniel Sternberg explains the prominence of college towns this way: College towns tend to do well because education is correlated with cognitive performance. We've seen in…
Hearing Cicadas for the First Time
Ironically, I am hearing cicadas in Charlottesville for the first time on a new construction site. I remember the last time they were out, we were using them for bait. :) A friend told me last week that cicadas aren't in places where ground has…
I am the Real Jim Duncan – Reputation Management 101
I am Jim Duncan. The Realtor. The soccer player and coach. Partner at Nest Realty in Charlottesville, Virginia. Friends who have known me for a long time call me Jimmy. I'm glad I have a blog and doubly glad I own it. I am not…