Dear Mom -

I know you read The B-Town Blog, because I know your computer’s IP address (and Mom, will you please stop commenting on that Naked Lady Sculpture story? That is soooo July of you!), and I wanted you to hear my really really important segment I did on KUOW’s “The Conversation” today.

Okay, so it was less than two minutes, but hey, at least I got on the air.

Uh-oh, I forgot to mention the URL of our website.

Oh, and they didn’t have time to let me mention the Forklift Rodeo either. Dang.

And I didn’t get to talk as much about annexation as I had prepared for (I studied it all morning long, and even called Jenn at the City of Burien for info!).

But I know you’ll love this, because you love me. You still do, right Mom? Mom???

Oh well, enough blabbering…here’s the audio file for your listenin’ pleasure (or not):

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(click that little arrow button above to play the recording back Mom…kind of like a CD player’s “Play” button…)

Wednesday morning (July 1st), KUOW Radio featured German Urban planner Thomas Sieverts, who will be the featured guest at a “Nosh & Walk” event Thursday night, July 2nd at the Burien Interim Art Space, beginning at 4pm.

Sieverts coined the term “Zwischenstadt,” a book on the dissolution of the traditional European city, and the new form of urban landscape that emerges. The book was later republished in English under the title, “Where We Live Now.”

The term “Zwischenstadt” became popularized to mean an “in–between city,” or the city between the old historical centers and open countryside. He previously taught urban planning at the University of Visual Arts in Berlin and the Technical University in Darmstadt. He has run his own practice since 1978, and in 2000 jointly founded the architecture group, S.K.A.T.

Thursday night at B/ IAS, Sieverts will discuss Burien’s “Zwischedstadt-edness,” which should provide for some interesting discussion since this will be his first trip here.

Here’s an MP3 of KUOW’s interview with Sieverts:

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For those who missed it, here is a the full MP3 Podcast of the Monday “Placeblogging” edition of KUOW’s “Weekday” where we were a call-in guest (our short blabbering comments can be heard around minutes 38:02 and 47:45:

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Neighborhood blogs: A townhouse is going up next door, someone got mugged around the corner, and a new coffee shop opened down the street.

That’s the kind of thing you want to know when it happens near you.

But it’s probably not going to make it into the city newspaper.

Hyper local bloggers have sprung up to fill you in on your neighborhood news. Some bloggers are reporters. Some are software developers. Some are just curious citizens. One only writes haikus.

Are local blogs how all of us will get more information in the future?

Is it a sustainable business?

Do you read a local blog?

Email weekday@kuow.org.

We’ve been asked to call in around 9:30am (what…studio’s not big enough?), so we’ll see if they take our call and let us blabber incoherently about “faceflogging,” whatever that is…

Of course, we always encourage our readers to participate, so if you’d like to interact (or support us), either email weekday@kuow.org or call them a bit before 9am at (206) 543-KUOW or 1-800-289-KUOW.