{"id":119,"date":"2004-10-20T20:58:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-20T20:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=119"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T08:00:00","slug":"links-of-october-20-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/20\/links-of-october-20-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"Links of October 20, 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As usual, a couple links that I want to share.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I really liked <a href=http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/chronicle\/archive\/2004\/10\/20\/FDG6U99KI01.DTL>this San Francisco chronicle article<\/a> describing Laura Cunningham, the manager of the French Laundry.  In the <a href=http:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/24\/#french_laundry>account of my visit<\/a>, I raved about the experience, and how everything was tuned so well for customer enjoyment.  It turns out that Cunningham has trained her staff in every aspect of making sure a customer has a good experience, from choreographing their movements with the help of a professional dance coach, to teaching them how to impart their knowledge to diners in a non-condescending way.  She has apparently spent a lot of time thinking about how to make the whole experience beyond the food as amazing as possible, and it definitely shows.\n<li>Mitch Kapor is a well-known internet activist.  He was one of the founders of Lotus, and then went on to found the <a href=http:\/\/www.eff.org\/>Electronic Frontier Foundation<\/a>, a great organization dedicated to preserving our liberties online.  He has continued to take an interest in online organizations, contributing to organizations like <a hrefhttp:\/\/www.baobabs.org\/hub\/node\/view\/80>Baobabs<\/a> and <a href=http:\/\/civicspacelabs.org\/faq>CivicSpace<\/a>.  I read <a href=http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/election04\/20076\/>this Alternet article<\/a> about Kapor&#8217;s site <a href=http:\/\/www.ofbyandfor.org>Of, by and for<\/a>, where he&#8217;s attempting to open up a political dialogue about self-governance and democracy.  Interesting idea &#8211; I like his take on things in the Alternet interview.  The site itself doesn&#8217;t do a lot for me yet, although I liked <a href=http:\/\/www.ofbyandfor.org\/node\/view\/521>this reference<\/a> to Thomas Jefferson&#8217;s <a href=http:\/\/www.yale.edu\/lawweb\/avalon\/presiden\/inaug\/jefinau1.htm>Inaugural Address<\/a>, which is a powerful speech.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As usual, a couple links that I want to share. I really liked this San Francisco chronicle article describing Laura Cunningham, the manager of the French Laundry. In the account of my visit, I raved about the experience, and how everything was tuned so well for customer enjoyment. It turns out that Cunningham has trained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}