Archive for December, 2006
DirecTV Fails Local Channels Promise for Five Years
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Anyone who has received a DirecTV mailer has been frustrated that the great bundled offer cannot include local channels in our [...]
Idaho Falls Online Classified Ad Websites
This is the fourth installment of a new series I am publishing every Monday, called “IF Onlineâ€. Each article will examine an aspect of our Idaho Falls area that has an online presence. This week I will call your attention to local classified ad websites.
The critical success factor for any classified source, whether printed or [...]
How to write more effective comments
I want to express my sincere and deep appreciation for the thousands of comments you all leave in response to the published articles at IdahoFallz.com. Those comments generate many great discussions here. People sometimes ask me why I put so much time into fostering this online community, and one of them is the excitement I [...]
Idaho Falls Citizen Design Charettes Could Help Long Term Growth
Annual design charrettes would dramatically help guide Idaho Falls city improvements. The intensive design collaborations would also be a fun and smart new thing for residents to do every year.
I encourage you to read Wikipedia’s excellent explanation of charrettes to really get a sense of what I am proposing.
The point of the annual design [...]
Look Ma, No Local Advertisements!
Some may have noticed I quietly removed advertising solicitations a few weeks ago. IdahoFallz.com will no longer solicit or accept local advertising.
I am a designer, programmer, writer, many things, but definitely not a salesman or telemarketer. It is ironic that nobody wants to receive a hard sales pitch, but it takes a hard sales [...]
Liberals or Conservatives- Who Gives More???
Is it me or did anyone else find the 20/20 story on charity a bit ironic? If you didn’t see the episode it was a John Stosell report in which he interviewed Arthur Brooks who is a Professor of Public Administration and Director of the Nonprofit Studies Program at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School [...]
Evidence of Idaho’s Christmas Spirit
I am buffeted by advice that this site should focus on more positive stories. I like to point out most anyone is free to register and publish positive stories on their own, so long as it is locally interesting.
Most everyone is also free to leave positive comments in some of the more positively-oriented articles, [...]
How To Shovel Snow
This may sound like a no-brainer but I every winter I see folks turn snow-shoveling into a hazardous sport. And make no mistake that snow removal can be a serious health risk. Just ask the hospitals how many extra patients they see for pulled muscles, back sprains, and heart attacks, after a good [...]
Get More and Faster Local News Online
This is the third installment of a new series I am publishing every Monday, called “IF Onlineâ€. Each article will examine an aspect of our Idaho Falls area that has an online presence.
This week I will call your attention to local news websites. We know they exist, but do you know how they can save [...]
Thanksgiving Dinner Restaurant in Idaho Falls
I would like to see an Idaho Falls restaurant focused exclusively on Thanksgiving meal-type foods. It could be called something like “Thanksgiving Dinner”, “Thanksgiving Diner”, “Thanksgiving Eats” or “Thanksgiving Fixings”.
The menu would feature things traditional Thanksgiving foods like turkey, smoked turkey, fried turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberries, rolls, deviled eggs, pumpkin pie, etc. The food [...]
How you can return to anonymity
I really enjoy the new “users online” display in our chatbox. Before, I had to run a separate script to show how many visitors we had at any time and who was on, and you had to click a link to see the information. Now we see current visitor information displayed conveniently and concisely.
However, it [...]
December 1, 2006 State of the City Blog
IdahoFallz.com publishes monthly updated visitor counts and highlights some of the best-written stories in the past month. This is done in the interest of conducting open and honest business, and to update our stakeholders, which include Idaho Falls residents, anyone concerned with positive improvements the Idaho Falls area.
November 2006 was our fourteenth month in operation [...]
whew, slow day, time to all start commenting again!
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