{"id":21613,"date":"2011-07-17T11:30:37","date_gmt":"2011-07-17T17:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/17\/unblogged-bits-sun-17-jul-11-1130.html"},"modified":"2011-07-17T11:30:37","modified_gmt":"2011-07-17T17:30:37","slug":"unblogged-bits-sun-17-jul-11-1130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/17\/unblogged-bits-sun-17-jul-11-1130.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Sun. 17-Jul-11 1130)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;. <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/RRtXoBVvjkg\/\">On Biking, Why Can\u2019t the U.S. Learn Lessons from Europe?<\/a> &#8211; What the article makes clear is that it&#8217;s not solely a matter of government action (making bike lanes), but the culture as a whole &#8212; from people accepting biking as a means of transportation, to buildings (apartments and office buildings alike) accommodating bikes.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/zfTPKMIhtoc\/could-the-ipod-be-on-its-deathbed\">Could the iPod Be On Its Deathbed?<\/a> &#8211; Part of the problem may be that there aren&#8217;t compelling reasons to buy a <b>new<\/b> MP3 player, and if the market is saturated that&#8217;s going to slow down sales.  Personally, I&#8217;m not sure I want to conflate my smartphone with my music playing (the former is complex technology that I refresh every few years; the latter is for me a long-term archive to provide portability to my music).  Sure, the various music cloud projects offer another answer &#8212; but the cloud is still not nearly as ubiquitous as folks would like to think\/sell.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/701tyre7m3A\/die-apple-die-die-die.html\">DIE APPLE, DIE! DIE! DIE!<\/a> &#8211; Ha!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;. On Biking, Why Can\u2019t the U.S. Learn Lessons from Europe? &#8211; What the article makes clear is that it&#8217;s not solely a matter of government action (making bike lanes), but the culture as a whole &#8212; from people accepting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/17\/unblogged-bits-sun-17-jul-11-1130.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits (Sun. 17-Jul-11 1130)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49259,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/09\/rt-davidvnewman-cu-denver-is-conducting-a-survey-of-cyclists-and-non-cyclists-regarding-scofflaw-biking.html","url_meta":{"origin":21613,"position":0},"title":"RT @davidvnewman CU Denver is conducting a survey of cyclists and non-cyclists regarding &#8220;Scofflaw Biking&#8221;","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 9-Jan-15 11:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"RT @davidvnewman CU Denver is conducting a survey of cyclists and non-cyclists regarding \"Scofflaw Biking\" To participate, go here: http:\/\/www.scofflawbiking.org View on Twitter","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~Tweets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12979,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/27\/dnc_brouhaha_on_the_16th.html","url_meta":{"origin":21613,"position":1},"title":"DNC &#8211; Brouhaha on the 16th Street Mall","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 27-Aug-08 1:04pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Anti-Israel protesters (mostly) clogged things up with a demonstration. 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