Brynn Marie Evans

Monthly Archives: October 2009

Why there’s nothing to fear in social search

28 Oct 2009 – 12:32

This was originally posted on ReadWriteWeb on Oct 27, 2009, as a guest author.
Social search was in the news this past week when Google and Bing announced that they would be getting access to the Twitter fire hose. A flurry of subsequent posts speculated on what this “social search” would entail, and some expressed concerns [...]

By brynn | Posted in social search | Tagged bing, google, readwriteweb, social networking, social search, spam, twitter | Comments (3)

The failure of MyFarm: good intentions, poor execution

28 Oct 2009 – 12:12

I first heard that local farms offered weekly produce boxes — as part of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs — about 4 years ago. At that time I had joined a wonderful CSA in San Diego called The Be Wise Ranch.
But when I moved to San Francisco this summer, I had to find a new local [...]

By brynn | Posted in personal | Tagged bankruptcy, community agriculture, lessons, myfarm, myfarmsf, produce | Comments (14)

Bluewalks map of a neighborhood walk

24 Oct 2009 – 20:21

This is a test of a service I recently heard of called bluewalk.com that lets you create walks or walking tours in various places, not unlike what I was doing with Google Maps for our recent Northern European trip.
This map is of a walk Chris and I took on our first day back from said [...]

By brynn | Posted in personal | Tagged bluewalks, googlemaps, san francisco, tour, travel, walk | Comments (1)

Stockholm, week 3 of European Adventure

21 Oct 2009 – 10:20

Chris and I were in Stockholm, Sweden, for 5 days last week. Several days were consumed with travel and workshop prep (for the upcoming Toronto workshop and talk). But 2 full days were spent wandering around the city of Stockholm, and on Saturday we took the train to Uppsala for the day.
While walking around [...]

By brynn | Posted in personal | Tagged europe, scandinavia, socialwebworkshop, stockholm, sweden, travel | Comments (0)

Leaving Russia

21 Oct 2009 – 8:50

This is just a single entry on our last day in Russia:
On Monday Oct 12 — still in St. Petersburg — Chris was signed up to give his talk (Identity is the Platform) at Vitaly’s University. I believe this article is advertising his speaking gig [it's all in Russian!]. The talk went well, but [...]