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Today's event was a special treat for me: Scott McNealy addressed ASU students and faculty, taking questions, offering advice, and as always giving his frank and colorful observations on technology, business, ethics and just about anything else that got caught in the stream-of-consciousness. Scott is widely respected and regarded as one those legendary Silicon Valley personalities who is as controversial as he is successful. The audience was primarily Journalism or MBA students - most of them enrolled in our Digital Media Entrepreneurship courses or projects.  

The McNealy Primer (for our Business and Journalism Students):
For those who may be too young, busy, naive or living in a cave without any access to a network or consumer electronics device, here's what you need to know:  More... »

I just saw this. Google has added an option for walking directions to Google Maps. After you search for directions, you'll see the "walking" link at the top left.

Pedestrian routes could make for some interesting mashups on community blogs. I thought that Everyblock had a feature to look at crime by route, but I'm not finding it at the moment (comment if you find it). Beyond crime, there should be a lot of stories that matter to pedestrians differently than those in their vehicle. News on routes where kids walk to school, construction affecting sidewalks, even flooded routes (for minute-to-minute blogs) could make for useful mashups.