The Debate as Seen by Local Twitter Users

by Daniel Klotz on September 27, 2008

Lancaster County Twitter users (or, if you prefer, Tweeps, Twitterati, Twitterfolk, Twitterers, or Tweeters) had a field day with last night’s first presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain, hosted by Jim Lehrer. If you aren’t on Twitter and (…)

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Omit Needless Books: The Elements of Style

by Daniel Klotz on September 25, 2008

One month from today is a momentous occasion: The release date of the 50th Anniversary Edition of Strunk & White’s tiny stone tablet of writing commandments, The Elements of Style. You can scuttle on over to Amazon and preorder it (…)

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PA is Old and Sedentary – Or Tried and True?

by Daniel Klotz on September 23, 2008

New data from the 2007 American Community Survey  was released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. The good folks of the Pennsylvania State Data Center picked out the goodies and wrote up a research brief [pdf]. The interesting tidbits: Pennsylvania (…)

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Lack of Young Leaders, or a Lack of Leadership from the Rest?

by Daniel Klotz on September 20, 2008

Jeff Hawkes of the Intell and I both attended a meeting Monday morning. We walked away with the same concern—our community appears unsustainable unless we encourage and enact true innovation—but with opposite ways of framing it. In his column yesterday, (…)

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Should Lancaster Use Social Media?

by Daniel Klotz on September 19, 2008

The question may already be irrelevant. Lancaster is using social media. Even on Twitter, which is still just catching on, there are around 200 Lancastrians, the majority of them active. (EthanD does a good job keeping tabs on in-county Twitterfolk, (…)

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