Michael Castellon

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#aloha Merry Christmas, from way out here https://www.instagram.com/p/DO4GdyOEvAE/ My #Maine squeeze 🦞🇺🇸 Happy birthday to the most amazing woman in my life. Your love, laughter, and kindness make every day brighter. Here’s to celebrating you and all the joy you bring to everyone around you. https://www.instagram.com/p/DE0AEGvPk0b/ After hundreds of hours in the Texas sky, I can say this: the quiet charm of small-town airports never fades. ✈️ #flying #aopa #eaa #aviation https://www.instagram.com/p/DC-lpVgtZg9/ https://www.instagram.com/p/DBXe_dsvXQ6/
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  • The value of plain language in government communications

    This is important. The Plain Language Action and Information Network (PLAIN) are federal employees working to integrate simpler language into otherwise complicated legislation and policy.Based on the premise that the best content is the clearest content, the group provides a lot of resources on the value of plain language communications. Especially of interest are the…

  • Apple TV shipping

    Mine is scheduled to arrive tomorrow. Engadget has a full review. I’ll write something up as well.

  • Wells Fargo extends the olive branch, tweaks Twitter feed

    A few days ago I pointed out a few issues I had with Wells Fargo and their presence on Twitter. Namely, that their primary feed appeared to be abandoned and that their customer service feed seemed pretty repetitive and insincere. Wells Fargo’s Vice President of Social Media Ed Terpening (they have VPs of social media…

  • Texas Gulf fishermen recover from oil spill, misperception

    Not long ago I went down to the Texas coast and spent some time with fishermen and seafood distributors who were recovering from the BP Gulf oil spill. My story from that trip was just published in Fiscal Notes. Check it out. Texas Gulf fishermen, seafood distributors recover from the BP oil spill http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=37901111&access_key=key-vjhwxllb5n9c99013d2&page=1&viewMode=list

  • Wells Fargo uses its Twitter to tell customers they’re not on Twitter

    This is odd. A Wells Fargo ATM declined my Wells Fargo Visa debit card over the weekend. I wasn’t allowed to access my accounts and the machine didn’t provide a specific explanation of the problem. The card was issued to me in August and it doesn’t expire until May 2013, according to the date printed…

  • Why I won’t be ruling out analogue books anytime soon

  • Twitter launches new services

  • A quick look at the Goodwill Computer Museum

    I spent a solid part of the 1980s huddled over Apple IIs in Mr. Zimmerman’s 5th grade classroom at Thomas Paine Elementary in Urbana, Illinois. Mr Z didn’t think of computers as things that children should be timid around. As with the bullfrogs and piranha in our classroom, these little machines were to be explored…