My wife Robbie and I are heading to Italy for vacation on Tuesday.

We plan to spend our entire two weeks in the Cinque Terre region. (The best photos we’ve found are here.)

According to Rick Steves: “The Cinque Terre… is a series of villages clinging to a remote stretch of the Riviera coastline. Each town is [...]

I don’t see any official announcements anywhere but I spoke with Mary Reid Friday night and with Fraser Henderson on Monday morning and got the unofficial word…

ReadMyDay Phase II has received funding from the local e-Democracy National Project board which met on Friday. There are a few details to attend to before it’s all [...]

I was profiled by the Media Giraffe project last week, primarily for my work with Northfield Citizens Online and its Northfield.org site. The piece was titled: For Minnesota’s Griff Wigley, the Internet is another form of social work.

The project spotlights “neck-above-the-crowd individuals making innovative, sustainable use of media (old and new) to foster [...]

In Tuesday’s Washington Post, Ruth Marcus has an article titled PowerPoint: Killer App?. The article ran on the commentary page of the Star Tribune this morning.

The article references Wired magazine’s 2003 article PowerPoint Is Evil by Edward Tuft and a subsequent essay titled The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint.

And of course, it also references Peter [...]

In today’s NY Times: How to Make Phone Calls Without a Telephone.

I’ve been using both Skype and Google Talk in the past week, and I’m amazed at how easy they are to use and that the quality of the connection is so good, even in a call to Australia.