* Union Square, San Francisco, CA (#1) per Stratofox.com
* Tonsler Park, Charlottsville, VA (#3) Per Stratofox.com
* Chase Palm Park, Santa Barbara, CA (#4) Per Startofox.com
* Glasgow Park, Belltown Woods, DE (#7) Per Stratofox.com
* Waterfront Park, Portland, OR (#9) Per Stratofox.com
* Katy Park, Katy, TX (#8) Per ispyaredballoon.com
* Centennial Park, Atlanta, GA (#10) Per ispyaredballoon.com
* Chaparral Park, Scottsdale, AZ (#2) confirmed by @fark on twitter
* Collins Ave, Miami, FL (#6) per 10balloonies.com with assist from commenter Rick
* Lee Park, Memphis, TN (#5) per 10balloonies.com with assist from commenter Rick
Leave a comment if you want to dispute any of the sitings.
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I just saw some reports coming out of the Democratic Policy Committee (DPC) which would indicate that the folks in Congress tweaked the allocation formula from last year. It looks the allocations I posted in the table yesterday may be off by +/- 10%. I will redo the table when and if I can find out whether the DPC’s numbers are official and final.
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The following table shows how much each state will receive in Weatherization Assistance Program funds as a result of the Stimulus Plan. The calculations are based on the assumption that the funds will be allocated based on the same formula that was proposed for the Fiscal 2008 funding. The proposed formula was disclosed in the Federal Register in December 2008.
So for Massachusetts, for example, the funding for FY 2008 of $6.48 million will jump to $142.59 million in FY 2009. I have read numerous articles which say the funds have to be spent within 18 months but I have not been able to trace those statements to reliable sources like Appropriation Committee reports.
In Massachusetts the responsibility for disbursing Weatherization funds has been subcontracted to various regional “community action councils” (CAC’s). These same agencies are responsible for handling disbursements of Low Income Heating Assistance funds. I have tried for about a week to get in touch with the person who handles the heating assistance and weatherization programs at my local designated CAC. This does not bode well for the prompt deployment of Stimulus Weatherization funds.
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Once again… rolling start. I showed up at 9:15am (thanks to the friggn’ Redline and Dan Grabowkus) and Karen was sitting with Victor and some new guy so I joined them.
Eventually about 15 people show up so we moved the meeting downstairs. Continue Reading »
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Joe Cascio gave a presentation last evening about why the world needs a distributed microblogging protocol. He was originally calling this project “distributed twitter.” There was an interesting mix of long time (and/or old time) Berkman Blogger folks, some twitteratti and some real geeks (coders). Continue Reading »
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Rolling start to the meeting… didn’t really develop a quorum until around 9 am.
Some new folks (or people who haven’t been to an OpenCoffee in a very long timed ) …
Shawn Broderick of TrustPlus which provides reputation management services so individuals can “manage” their online reputations across a range of services they use such as Ebay, Craigslist, etc. Continue Reading »
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Good crowd. Lot’s of New England ubergeeks.
The talks were consistently interesting… from what little I could hear.
Why? Why? Why does the O’Reilly team continue to use the worst possible venue (Tommy Doyle’s in Harvard Sq. ) for this possibly great event.
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It was a nice mix of some regulars… Nabeel, Victor, myself and some others (who may be in stealth mode). And a handful of new comers including.. David Chancogne of Traackr, Andrew Drane of Cook’s Compass, Shimon Rura most recently of Renesys/Babbledog and some other newbies (who may be in stealth mode). Continue Reading »
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I attended David Tames’ “WordPress Crash Course” last week at the Mass College of Art. This is where I learned to insert photos using the latest version of WordPress.
This is a photo I took of a BostonNow newspaper box right across the street from the Kennedy School at Harvard. BostonNow bit the dust about one year later.
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Lot’s of great stuff. I’ve already filled three memo books with notes. No time to blog about it. More on the symposium here.
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