My co-founder once described my writing as having the density of a dictionary but with none of the brevity. In my defense, my previous job was to write and review technical documents. But lately, I have been reading Paul Graham, Jason Fried and the master of get-to-the-point, Seth Godin. Yesterday, I started on a 2,500 [...]
Archive | July, 2009
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How to do Social Media in 6 minutes a day
Anthony and I just finished lunch with Tim Walker. Check out his back-of-the-napkin sketch for a blog concept. Tim rejected my line that I don’t have time to write blog posts. His concept for a company blog seems obvious in retrospect—a three pronged approach focused on our products, entrepreneurship and social media. His 5 minute [...]
AASHTO Section 4(f) Guidance
Much as the name implies, AASHTO’s “Complying with Section 4(f) of the U.S. DOT Act” assists practitioners in managing Section 4(f) compliance. Section 4(f) is a law that protects public parks, recreation areas, wildlife and waterfowl refuges and significant historic sites. All in all, it’s a fairly comprehensive resource about Section 4(f) questions, practices [...]
Get Example Language for PCEs, CEs and EAs
Check out the NEPA Library (beta). It’s a free library of recently approved NEPA documents. Right now, the Library has all PCEs, CEs and EAs that were approved by TxDOT and FHWA for May 2009. We hope to add more approved NEPA documents from different agencies and different states each week. Cubit’s July newsletter has [...]
Design Decisions: username vs. email address
In order to allow Cubit users to save their projects we created a feature called “projects”. In order to save a project and retrieve it later, we asked folks to create an account. Creating an account wasn’t hard, it just required you to create a login ID, enter an e-mail address and pick a password. [...]
