Category: San Francisco


  • SF Architecture, Landscape, Weather Brought to Life on Twitter

    Twitter has long been a place where fictional characters – from Darth Vader to strange turns on comic book heroes to the characters from the space opera Firefly – have found life. Now, in a move to warm a tourism board’s heart, some of the most iconic features of San Francisco are also animated on

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  • Fall Speaking Schedule

    My fall schedule is quite busy, and I’m looking forward to meet many of my social media friends at several upcoming speaking engagements. So you’ll know where to find me: Citizen 2.0 Workshop – Sunday, Sept. 19, 2-4 p.m., Fairfield, CA – I’ll be leading a session on social media for progressive activists and campaign

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  • Tech Link

    San Francisco and Bangalore to become sister cities – http://tinyurl.com/4rjcpa

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  • Predicting the local SF races

    Just entered the Usual Suspects “Best Political Mind” contest. Some tough picks in the supe races, and I don’t expect to do well. Districts 3, 9 and 11 could all be close for three more candidates. In 11, I have to think the Party endorsement (unofficial link – the Dem ‘s have a very poor

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  • Uh, yeah …

    “Two high-powered, scoped rifles in the car along with camouflage clothing, walkie-talkies, wigs, a bulletproof vest, a spotting scope, licenses in the names of other people and 44 grams of methamphetamine” … Unnamed gov source: “premature to say that it was a valid threat.”

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  • Having been an interested party in the San Francisco Police Department’s denial of press passes to some independent and small press journalists in its overall effort to reduce the number in circulation, I turned my SFPD credential over to Police Sgt. Neville Gittens on Thursday when I ran into him at City Hall on my

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  • The indubitably great SFist interviews Sarah Low Daly, aka Mrs. Chris. … Meanwhile, across Low Daly’s favorite bridge, I ponder what to do about Walnut Creek City Hall’s plans to put up a six-story garage in the park a block from my house. …

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  • In the height of irony, S.F. politics’ mad scribe h. brown was turned away from the door last night for Hunter S. Thompson’s wake. … h says they told him he wasn’t on the guest list, and leaving the castle he ran into Phil Bronstein with a guitar strapped to his back. …

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  • It’s likely that Gerardo Sandoval will be the next supervisor to spruce up his personal Web site. The Chron article today neglects to mention that the supes recently passed a Chris Daly ordinance allowing personal sites on the official city server. … Update: The ordinance was actually Sandoval legislation that allowed supes to connect their

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