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Friday Open Mic
 
 

I beat Joe to it … hey San Diego, what’s up? What’s worth checking out this weekend?
Is anyone interested in organizing a monthly ccSalon?

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Photos of Immigration Rally
 
 

Both Nathan Gibbs and Chris Nelson have some fantastic photos and descriptions of Sunday’s immigration rally, which began at Balboa Park and culminated at the County Administration Building downtown.
Nathan:
The march was completely peaceful. The organizers handed out free bottled water. The police presence was very low. Most people wore white to symbolize peace and unity. […]

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Gina Trapani No Longer Bi-coastal?
 
 

Keeping with the theme of internet celebrities, Gina Trapani says “San Diego, I like you.” More widely known as the prolific editor of Lifehacker, La Jolla-based Trapani also has a personal blog where she posts her writing, code, and photography.
You wanna know the truth, San Diego? I quite like you. You and your yummy burritos, […]

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Wanting Shots Trolley Stop
 
 

An anagram map of San Diego’s trolley system via BoingBoing. It appears to have been created by Tinder.

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What To Do This Weekend
 
 

Andrew Phelps recommends having a listen to the recording of today’s These Days on KPBS
for a special program on teenage culture — the growth of individualism, the impact of technology, the phenomenon of MySpace.
Meanwhile, Diana has just posted her recommendations for what to do this weekend. A Jewish Film Festival, free show at Lou’s Records, […]

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Free Movie at UCSD
 
 

Tomorrow night, February 1st, the Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies at UCSD will begin their Border Film Series with the subtitled drama, El Norte:
El Norte is an emotional saga of a brother and sister who leave their violence-torn village in Guatemala to find a better life in the United States. After receiving clandestine […]

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Facing the Digital Future in San Diego
 
 

The Digital Divide Network’s current feature is on the San Diego Futures Foundation:
Technology resources are now a lot more accessible to San Diego County’s youth, seniors, veterans, disabled individuals and other community members. The San Diego Futures Foundation has accepted the challenge set by the county’s e-government initiative to provide the citizens with better government […]

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San Diego’s Breaking News … Blog?
 
 

As Joe wrote about last July, The Noisy Apprentice is a weblog by the folks at Voice of San Diego which is meant to serve as “a sort of gray area where the stoic wall of separation between professional media and the community could come down for the sake of interesting discussion.”
The only problem: it […]

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Earthquake
 
 

Is it me or did we just have a slight earthquake at 2:12 p.m.? I haven’t been able to get any news on it.

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Switchfoot Advises Fans to Circumnavigate Copy Protection
 
 

I went to high school with Switchfoot members Tim and Jon Foreman so I’m not entirely surprised to read Tim’s forum post announcing his regret over Sony’s new copy protected CD’s which don’t allow the importion of songs into programs like Windows iTunes.
Let me first say that as a musician AND as a music fan, […]

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Sunshine/Noir
 
 

Sunshine/Noir is a recently published anthology of fiction and non-fiction edited by San Diego City College English and labor studies professor, Jim Miller. Included in the anthology are such well known locals and expats as Mike Davis, Perry Vasquez, and Mark Dery.
Dery’s charming essay of an intellectual’s coming of age in our sufer’s city is […]

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Old School
 
 

Surfing around the net I stumbled upon this photo from a 2002 San Diego Bloggers meetup and thought it was worthy of a post. I know MAS is on the right and I’m pretty sure that’s Mikey on the left. But does anyone know who is in the middle?

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San Diego Student Blog Initiative?
 
 

John Eger of Envision San Diego writes:
Thanks to a seed grant from Charmaine and Maurice Kaplan we have started a new online journal called the Creative Community Journal which will be posted on the Envision San Diego website at the end of this semester. This new student Journal will become a regular feature of […]

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What Now?
 
 

Have something to say about the resignation of Mayor Dick Murphy and what it means for the city of San Diego as well as where we should be headed? Here’s your chance. Mary Ann Eger from Envision San Diego writes:
What are your great ideas for the future of this region?
Mayor Murphy has stepped down. What […]

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Catholic church cancels funeral for owner of gay nightclub
 
 

David Moye was being funny when he offered up banning gay weddings for the month of June, but this is just sad …
As Andrew Phelps has posted:
The owner of a popular local nightclub with a gay clientele can’t have a funeral in the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego because the church has deemed his […]

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Beercasting Comes to San Diego
 
 

For you beer enthusiasts out there (aren’t we all?), the official Beercasting America Tour is making it’s stop in San Diego on Monday March 21st. The meeting place is still yet to be announced, but if you would like to suggest a favorite brewery, you can send feedback to tour@beercasting.com.

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BBC Encourages Participation of even San Diegans
 
 

The BBC, in selected online news items, is currently publishing moderated readers’ comments. In this article about the appointment of Paul Wolfowitz to head the World Bank, San Diegan Bruce Macdonald chimes in:
The architect of our Iraq debacle as head of the World Bank - instead of being consigned to the dust heap of failed […]

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ShamRock in Gaslamp
 
 

This afternoon, beginning at 4 p.m., Gaslamp will transform itself into the 10th annual ShamRock festival:
Have a ShamROCK’in St. Patrick’s Day!
Tickets are only $20 at the gate - 5th & G Street.
Ages 21 and up only. Must have valid I.D.!
For more details, Call 619-233-5008!
$15 Advance tickets available at
The Field, Authentic Irish Pub at 554 5th […]

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Helix Charter High School Blocks Blogs?
 
 

Update: Good news, false alarm, I just received this email from the Helix High teacher:
comment: It is no longer blocked. Initially they told me it’s because it’s a “personal website”. But then it works again.

One of Bernie Dodge’s alumni (now a teacher at Helix High) of his graduate course, EDTEC, has […]

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O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference
 
 

San Diego has been invaded by bloggers and geeks from around the world attending the annual O’Reilly Emergent Technology Conference which officially kicked off last night and will continue through Thursday at the Convention Center.
As Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing noted last week, this conference marks the first time that the entire Boing Boing gang […]

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