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Anyone that has listened to Steve Dahl in the past and is reading this “live” (~3:24pm CST on Friday August 18, 2006) might want to either flip on 105.9 FM (that is if you’re in the Chicago area) or hit the live stream on dahl.com… Steve’s old co-host, Garry Meier, is live on the air [...]

So I went to BarCamp Chicago today and don’t know how I feel walking away from it. While I was only able to attend for a couple of hours this afternoon, I can’t say I’m walking away with much. There definitely was a share of very smart people there, but it seemed to be missing [...]

I’ve been feeling really good about the tech-scene going on around Chicago (yeah, that’s really nerdy to say out loud). Coming off of “a high” from Gnomedex, it’s nice to see this attitude carrying on locally… – The local crew has a couple of tricks up their sleeves which will be announced soon – TechCocktail [...]

Last night I made the trek last night to the inaugural TECHcocktail event in Chicago. For being such a big city, there never has seemed to be any sort of techy/webby/bloggy community that I was ever able to find. If you go back to the early years of marusin.com (we’re talking 2001ish ~ too lazy [...]

Well, I’m at Gate 20 at Midway waiting for the plane to come in.  I’m flying Southwest (can’t argue, it was a free flight) and although I “checked in” yesterday through their website, I still got a “B” boarding card.  Amazing that that many people are checking in through the website.  That’s a good thing, [...]

I’ve scouted the perfect location. If you are someone looking to open a coffee shop or expand upon your small/awesome existing chain (yes I’m talking to you, Intelligentsia), I cannot think of a better place than in the Civic Opera House or somewhere between Washington and Madison on the east-side of Wacker. I know several [...]

I don’t know where I first heard of them, but I cannot get enough of the three songs they made available for download off of their website. I’m hoping I get this cd for my birthday. :) Scratch that, I just saw that you can buy it on iTunes. That literally just happened in the [...]

Gapers Block has two great conversation topics going about the most Overrated and Underrated restaurants in the Chicago-area. Great reading for the local (or anyone travelling here)…

the Lollapalooza lineup looks incredible this year. Do I brave it? Bands in bold are ones I would go out of my way to see… Red Hot Chili Peppers Kanye West Manu Chao Wilco Death Cab For Cutie The Raconteurs The Flaming Lips Ween Queens of the Stone Age The Shins Common Matisyahu Ryan Adams [...]

Who would like to help setup/organize an event like MindCamp or BarCamp in the Chicago-area? I’ve been trying to figure out how I can get involved with an event like this and it finally struck me that I should try and organize it… Is there something like this going on? If so, I haven’t heard [...]