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I make a point of staying on top of events in Seattle.  I see lots of live shows, events at Town Hall, museum-y things, author appearances at Elliott Bay, whatever is playing at the Egyptian or NWFF etc.  I actively search & track shows/events via venue sites, SpaceBook, friends, yelp, the Stranger, show posters, newsletters, fansites, etc.  I give extra money to KEXP, NPR, SAM etc so I can get better invites & better tickets to better things.  I have predictable, easy-to-market-to tastes, & money to spend to indulge them in two hour increments.  Case in point: I even willingly subscribe to & read email promos from the evil usurious pricks at ticketmaster.  Anyway, this is all top of mind b/c of a conversation from earlier today, where I characterized myself as someone who is reasonably well dialed in to the local scene.

So how did I not hear that Clinton was speaking tonight & Obama is speaking tomorrow?  WTF?  Instead of seeing future president, I am spending this evening/tomorrow morning building a powerpoint deck that will take longer to create than it will even be relevant.  Am so very pissed.

The more I think about this the more it is bugging me.  The magic thing that would help me discover & manage events + my own life while it's at it would do some of these things:

Use a regionally-appropriate voice.  Or art.  Or both.  Or let me do it.  If a grocery store can employ full-time chalkboard artists, then why why why does a website like citysearch have the visual appeal of a default ppt template?

Many not-dead-yet business travelers share this quest... how to find "the stranger" & not "the weekly" nationwide; ie how to avoid the abject horror of hotel concierge recommendations.

Venue-specific feeds, including feeds for venues with lame websites of their own.  I'll go to anything at Neumos, & almost anything (unless it involves Garrisson Keillor) at Town Hall.  Often I go to NWFF without looking first.  But I guess that's how I wound up seeing all 174 minutes of "The Sound of Music."  Anyway.

An event-specific sidebar thing for my blog.  I hate manually entering all the live shows i go to, & google calendar doesn't deal with public/private event settings well enough.  I learned this when Rob sent me a "ha ha you have jury duty" email.  Rob, I hope you get jury duty.  And get stung by bees.

Something that acknowledges the past.  I want to remember what I did, maybe blob together a calendar event with the list of people I went to it with plus the correct time/datestamps on the pictures I took with my phone.

Can't it all be web two do oh'd all together into a dashboard?  I want del.icio.us + something similar- to-but-vastly-better-than-citysearch/yelp + google + flickr + MyFace + iLike + iGoogle +ShoZu + wetpaint + The Stranger + evite + socializr + google calendar + ability to email/text to self/others + save to google calendar sometimes & Outlook some other times + be web-based with a mobile extension (sans shitty UI) & really, basically, just something useful & helpful that also helps me not have to write things in Sharpie on my own hand.

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[Mojo]

shit...do i smell a startup?