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Entries from May 8th, 2009

Sable Highlands – Interim Recreation Management Plan

May 8th, 2009 · No Comments · News

Wednesday’s meeting at the Saranac Town Hall was at full-capacity. I think every chair in the building was being used for this informational meeting introducing the NYS DEC’s Interim Recreation Management Plan for the Sable Highlands conservation easement Public Use Areas and Linear Recreation Corridors. Simply put, NYS has purchased conservation easements on privately owned land and is charged with the implementation and management of public recreational use.

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Bear Swamp Road Blockhouse

May 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Adirondack Life

DIED Dec. 21 1849This cemetery contains buried victims of a Small Pox “problem” in the mid-1800s. The Blockhouse that stood at this site served as a medical building.

Life is much easier these days.

Blockhouse

Bear Swamp Rd Cemetery

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Twitter Reciprocity and #followfriday

May 1st, 2009 · 3 Comments · Adirondack Life

Today is Friday.  All you Twitter folks know what that means, #followfriday is the fashionable meme of the day. This post is LIVE DONE.

Follow me on TwitterDon’t get me wrong, I super-appreciate every recommendation I get, but I haven’t felt like playing along with the Friday-thing.  Why?  There’s no meta to go with the recommendation.  For me, it’s all about the Semantic Web.  The data is there, what information can we assign to it?  Same with users.  I wish the ability to tag Twitter users was something I could do, instead of relying on self-tags.

Enough with the Twitter navel-gazing, I’ll save that for another time.  Today is about you, my Twitter-people.

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