Jackie Danicki

I’m putting some photos on Flickr until I fly tonight.

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I’m on my way to New York in a few hours, then London on Friday, then the beach of the south coast of England on Saturday, then I don’t know where or when. All things online will be on semi-hiatus until next week, including email. I owe many people email, so I’m sorry if I […]

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Cincinnati Salon: Ken Cunningham on community-driven design

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That’s what one of the participants in last night’s Cincinnati Salon said, and that’s what I love to hear. (Photos here.)
Ken Cunningham took us through the methods that he and his partner, John Spencer, use for community-driven design - a process that Ken has been using […]

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Oh man, I should be ashamed. I really like this.

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If Mike [Moore] thinks healthcare is expensive now, just wait until it’s free.
That’s my fellow Ohioan PJ O’Rourke, quoted by Johnathan Pearce, who says:

Mind you, I have often wondered whether Moore is for real, or a sort of performance artist secretly working for Dick Cheney.
From the Reason piece:
Take the case of four-year-old Elias Dillner. In […]

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Probably nothing intelligent, since he wasn’t very clever, but I do like to think it would cause a hell of a lot of spinning in his grave:
About a year ago I hired a developer in India to do my job. I pay him $12,000 to do the job I get paid $67,000 for. He’s happy […]

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Our friend Dr Helen Evans, a veteran senior nurse in Britain’s National Health Service, had a very good op-ed piece in yesterday’s Chicago Tribune. (I ran around Cincinnati looking for a hard copy, but could only find Sunday’s edition of the Tribune.)
I guess I’m just stunned that even the most dishonest propagandist - which Michael […]

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Go here for details of what will be a great conversation. Come on over if you’re downtown and can be in the door by 6.59!

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Jeff Nolan on the ridiculous iPhone hype:
[Apple’s marketing machine] takes something that is the same as, or more expensive than, a competitor’s offering and turns it into “simple and affordable” headlines.
That wouldn’t have anything to do with awe-struck, fact-averse tech journos, would it? Just asking.

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Some company I won’t name is offering Paris Hilton $1 million to teach an hour-long class entitled How to build your brand. My boy Michael K reveals the three easy steps to Paris’s secret formula here.

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Thanks to Chris Sims for pointing out that I forgot to edit the comments.php file to add the spam protection code! I’ve fixed that, and now you can leave comments. Don’t all stampede at once.

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First my friend Clotilde gets a book deal out of her food blog, goes on national TV in the US and Britain to show it off, and then ends up signing a copy of her book for Jude Law and feeding him chocolate cake while they swap recipes. BEHOLD THE POWER OF THE BLOG.

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Sorry, but I had to ditch the last template (which I really liked) because the distributor wanted me to insert link spam into it. I don’t have the energy or inclination for that fight, so I need to sort out a new template. This one’s not it, but it’s a short-term stopgap. Thanks for your […]

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I’m very excited to have one of the first friends I made in Cincinnati, local architect and activist Ken Cunningham, speaking at the June edition of the Cincinnati Salon on Tuesday evening. Ken is an innovator in community-led design efforts and has quite a few accomplishments under his belt in terms of providing results for […]

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