Melissa Leo talks to LA times about 'silly' things

Twitter fight!

As seen on How to fight with pols without trying

Mean Obama wants to make John Boehner cry

This is all in the spirit of fun and games, since no serious news organization would ever spend precious time or resources examining the crying by Speaker of the House John Boehner, right?

WRONG!!

And here's the rest of the State of the Salmon address. Wait, whaaa?

Milan cartoonist Liza Donnelly spreads ideas worth, uh, spreading

New Yorker cartoonist, Milan resident and Twitter person  Liza Donnelly (who's eating turkey meatloaf tonight) was a recent speaker at the TEDWomen conference in December. TED has recently posted the video of her talk about how humor can empower women to change the rules. Lots of funny cartoons are featured too.

"While many of the other speakers were serious with touches of humor, I was humorous with an underlying note of serious," she wrote. "My favorite way to be."

Mine too.

TED, as you know, stands for Ideas Worth Spreading. Wait. What?

The Freeman profiled Donnelly recently, about her ideas and her book, "Where do the Serve the Wine?"

Video after the jump. Wine at the winery.

State of the Union, the slideshow

2011 Enhanced State of the Union Address Graphics

View more documents from White House.

Hudson Valley tweeple react to State of the Union: Salmon! Boehner almost cried! Al Franken!

State of the Union excerpts, word cloud

I'll update the cloud with the final speech for comparison purposes.

Excerpts from the State of the Union Address 2011

Here's the full text.

And here's the word cloud for that:

President Obama delivers the State of the Union Address

JRC Chat live at noon

Members of the Journal Register Company Idealab (yours included) and anyone interested are going to be holding our weekly Twitter/CoverItLive chat at 5 p.m.

Today's topic will be about successful implementation of web tools for maximum impact, and other corporate speak.

If you are interested in the future of news, you might want to check it out.  The feed is also posted below. 

Don't forget to bring your links.

Hudson Valley residents use social media to react to gas emergency, snow showers

Kingston video goes viral because people like to see Corvettes on fire

Featured blogger Clark Richters' video from last year of a Corvette bursting into flames at the 2010 Envy Frenzy car show in downtown Kingston has gone viral on YouTube.

The reason (other than the fact that it's a Corvette going up in flames)? Popular car websites around the country began picking them up.

Watch it burn:

My desk, in 3D

Why am I showing you my desk? Because of the possibilities this tool, Photosynth, offers. (It uses Microsoft Silverlight, by the way, in case you can't see it).

We could (can!) give you 3D renderings of crime scenes, fires, concerts, fairs, protests, etc. You can also annotate highlights.

Even better, soon it will be able to be done with an iPhone.

Community Media Lab: Freedom of Information class

The Freeman's sister paper, The Register Citizen in Torrington, Conn., is offering a free Freedom of Information class at 11 a.m. today. The free class is free, in case I hadn't mentioned the free-ness of the free class previously. Free.

You can watch the class and participate in the chat below.

Etsy to open customer service center in Hudson

Etsy founder and CEO Rob Kalin announced in a forum post that the social commerce website for handmade goods will be opening a customer service center in the city of Hudson. (It was first suggested here.)

He wrote:

Yep, it's true. My family is from New York and I know the Hudson Valley well. I've backpacked most of the paths through the Catskills.

We'll be sharing more about this soon. Yes, we'll be hiring locally. If you're reading this here and are interested, feel free to convo me. Otherwise, stay tuned for more info.

Why Hudson? It's a great town, we found a fantastic building, and I know so many good people up there.

 (emphasis mine).

 Kalin is from Brooklyn, so you could say that, technically, Hudson is the new Brooklyn!

The hiring news comes on the heels of layoff announcements of the photovoltaic and explosive kind.

But this is good for Hudson, so yay!

Now if Etsy could stop selling things like these...

Cat summoned for jury duty; court rules he 'must attend'

Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.

Melissa Leo's Golden Globe acceptance speech

Ulster County Executive Mike Hein to NYC: 'Stop pollutting immediately'

Video via featured blogger Clark Ritchers.
Context here:  "NYC to stop releases of muddy water, but Ulster County exec still unhappy"

Melissa Leo wins Golden Globe award, becomes hashtag

This week in the Hudson Valley bloggosphere

I scrape the web for the most insightful and/or irrelevant post around the Hudson Valley so you don't have to.

* A commenter on Ulster County Legislator Michael Madsen's blog laments that Democrats won't have former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele to kick around anymore because, we guess, that's  Ulster County business.
* Kingston Alerwoman Andi Turco-Levin has a beef with some city property owners, which is a good thing, because I don't own any property in the city.
* Kingston Alderman Bill Reynolds has 610 words to say about Kingston Mayor James Sottile in a post titled, "One Word about Jim Sottile." I have one word about the title of that post: FAIL.
* Kingston resident Clark Richters posts videos about a consideration to move Kingston Public Access' studio to the town of Esopus. Meanwhile *hint* Rifton-based company Big Guy Media will adopt the public access vision *hint* "and take it to the next level" *hint*. Just sayin'
* The coffee people at the coffee place has some excellent coffee advice. Sucks for you, tea person.
* Over at Dorothy Wills-Rafter's blog, AWWWW.