Today in my first meeting of the day we were talking about social networking application in relation to projects that my organization uses for public outreach. Not only blogs, but facebook, youtube and twitter. Imagine -- updating your twitter to tell your constituent/data users that there is a new cruise's worth of bottle data available for their viewing or that you have updated the most recent model runs with last year's climatologies reanalyzed ...

tags: sending a text message, marine protected areas, networking application, facebook, public outreach, youtube, derivative markets, social networking, twitter, data users, widget, first meeting, vortex, constituent, guess, mba, reply, tubes, cruise, bottle data

Found in our Theo Chocolates promotional newsletter this morning: "Sales of existing houses dropped more in Washington than anywhere else in the nation last quarter, compared with a year earlier, according to a new report. King County's median sale price also dropped roughly 10 percent from a year earlier." Who was saying that Seattle wasn't immune to, but typically lagged the national trends? With the drop, 57 percent of the state's first-time buyers have enough ...

tags: theo chocolates, first time buyers, median sale price, median home price, national trends, last quarter, number 1, seattle

"Heather / Carrie" by Shawn McClung Know what Halloween needs? A last gasp. And this one comes courtesy of our Flickr pool. re experimenting with when to schedule our photo of the day. Should Seattlest Pix come first thing in the morning, sometime around midday, or in the early evening? Or do you care? Comment away and let us know. ...

tags: last gasp, mcclung, seattlest, early evening, midday, photo of the day, carrie, heather, halloween, pool, first thing in the morning