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Fallbrook, San Diego Fires
October 22nd, 2007
adminWe have had a lot of traffic outside of our office in Temecula. This picture was taken today at 2:25. The southbound traffic on the 15 is moving extremely slow.
Below is more information we found. Will it hit Temecula or will we be passed by for once?
10-22-07 2:11 p.m. Mandatory evacuations have been ordered for Scripps Ranch south of Scripps Parkway, north of MCAS Miramar, west of Hwy 67 and east of Interstate15.
10-22-07 2:03 p.m. Mandatory partial evacuation of Fallbrook. The EAS message advises “all residents of Fallbrook, north of Highway 76 and west of Interstate 15 to evacuate the community. Evacuees should leave through Pendleton Gate at Ammunition Road and go through Marine Corps Base-Camp Pendleton to Interstate 5 North to San Clemente State Park.”
A second EAS message has been issued to City of Chula Vista residents. The City of Chula Vista has requested residents who live in the following areas to voluntarily evacuate: Rolling Hills, San Miguel, East Lake Woods, Bella Lago. This is precautionary and is suggested due to unpredictable fire predictions.
10-22-07 1:20 p.m. The County Board of Education reports all San Diego County public schools will be closed Tuesday.
The University of California-San Diego campus will be closed Tuesday, October 23.
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors’ regular meeting will be cancelled Tuesday, October 23. Agenda items will be carried over to the next scheduled meeting on Wednesday, October 24.
10-22-07 12:47 p.m. Mandatory evacuations in Fallbrook and Valley Center.
Evacuations are beginning on the eastern half of Fallbrook; from Insterstate 15 east to Live Oak Park Road, to Gird Road, and East Mission Road to the north and San Luis Rey River to the south.
Evacuations are beginning in a large area of Valley Center, near the Bear Valley area. Valley Center High School is the evacuation center. Residents in Valley Center should play close attention to news reports because of the serious fire threats.
10-22-07 12:21 p.m. Mandatory evacuations have been ordered in Poway from Rattlesnake Creek to the south, Midland Road to the west, the San Diego Aqueduct to the east, and Lake Poway Road to the north.
Evacuation points are being established at Mount Carmel High School at 9550 Carmel Mountain Road and Poway Community Park at 13094 Civic Center Drive.
All residents who wish to volunteer their time are advised to call Volunteer San Diego at (858) 636-4131 or sign up to volunteer online at www.VolunteerSanDiego.org.
All residents who wish to donate emergency supplies and personal necessities are advised to call Goodwill Industries at (888) 446-6394 to find their local Goodwill drop-off site.
CAL FIRE reports: The Harris Fire is 20,000 acres and 5 percent contained. They are currently mapping the fire. Aircraft is periodically grounded due to high winds and visibility. The Southwest Powerline was shut off yesterday and to remain shut for unknown duration of time. San Diego County Sheriff and U. S. Border Patrol are handling immigrant issues including the rescuing, medical treatment, and identification of individuals. Otay Lakes Road is next fire decision making point for impact to San Diego City and Chula Vista. Multiple structures have been destroyed. There are 55 engines, 4 bulldozers, 9 fire crews, 6 helicopters, 5 airtankers (assigned), 6 water tenders (400 firefighters). The cause is still under investigation.
The Witch Fire is 10,000 acres, 0% contained. The fire is still spread westerly. Currently there is 28 engines, 1 dozer, 14 fire crews, 2 water tenders, 18 overhead (369 firefighters). Multiple structures have been destroyed. There have been no injuries to firefighters and one injury to a civilian. Communities threatened: Highland Valley, City of San Diego/Rancho Bernardo, City of Escondido, City of Lakeside, Barona Indian Reservation, City of Poway, Wild Animal Park, Mt. Woodson, Muth Valley. Wind driven fire with spotting up to 1/2 mile. Rapid fire spread burning down hill, down canyon. The fire is burning primarily in unburned fuel between the 2003 Paradise and Cedar Fires.
Some Cool Social Media Websites
September 1st, 2007
MatthewLaunched in 2002 by three 20-somethings in a Calgary, Alberta, apartment, StumbleUpon now has 2 million registered users drawn by its knack for finding websites that match their interests and those of others with similar tastes as they “stumble” around the Net.
Co-founder Garrett Camp who totes around a mid-’80s Nikon F3 (yes, with actual film), came up with the idea as he was working on a master’s in software engineering.
Frustrated as he tried to indulge his hobby online - “There wasn’t a good way to find the best photo sites,” Camp says - he tapped his own background in clustering technology. With coding help from Justin LaFrance and Geoff Smith, he created an early version of StumbleUpon. Having nailed the photo problem, the team quickly saw how the technology could click with all sorts of media.
In the same way that it matches users with like-minded websites, StumbleUpon’s technology also pairs online ads with targeted demographics and interests. Now StumbleUpon is attempting to do the same for online video and video advertising. In December the startup launched StumbleVideo, a service that offers the closest thing to channelsurfing that you’ll find on the Web.
Slide has developed customizable and easily assembled slide shows of photos that can be embedded in a blog or a MySpace page, sent out in an RSS feed, and streamed to a desktop as a screensaver.
Bebo has built a social network, more than 30 million members strong, that keeps users’ pages private but still allows them to share things like video and drawings made on an online whiteboard.
Meebo lets users manage multiple instant-messaging services from one site. Meebo’s killer app is a widget that places an IM window on your blog or webpage.
Wikia operates a hosting service for ad-supported community sites that use the same software and collaborative content model that made Wikipedia a Web phenomenon.
Launched in 2004, Wikia communities range from fans of 24 to politics junkies. Wikia is also working on an open-source, user-generated search engine.
Joost. Forget the three-minute video blog. The 30-minute, broadcast-quality Web 2.0 TV show is coming in all its full-screen glory. And if serial disrupters Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom have their way, neither television nor the Internet will be the same.
The duo behind peer-to-peer services Kazaa and Skype will officially launch Joost this spring, aiming to merge the best of TV with the best of the Net.
The service provides more of a television-style experience than current online video sites, with channels you can flip through randomly or program yourself. Viewers can also share playlists of their favorite shows with friends or chat with them online while watching the same program.
Joost will be free, supported by highly targeted ads based on people’s actual watching habits, their friends’ viewing patterns, and information they volunteer. Ad revenue will be split between Joost and the content owners.
Joost can offload much of the heavy bandwidth and storage costs borne by Web video companies like YouTube because the service is a partial peer-to-peer system, with content distributed among viewers’ computers. And to reassure Hollywood moguls who watched the music industry get burned by Kazaa’s legions of illegal file sharers, all Joost video is streamed and encrypted.
Will the Skype founders beat YouTube?
Dabble has designed a tool for organizing videos into playlists of favorites. Users share them across the network, so, say, food lovers can dabble in one another’s video collections.
Metacafe’s service ranks uploaded videos by popularity and feedback from a community of 17 million monthly visitors - and pays the creators for the success of their work. The auteurs get $100 after 20,000 viewings and $5 for every 1,000 subsequent views. Since September, Metacafe has paid a total of $250,000 to 200 contributors.
Revision 3 is a production studio for geek-oriented online shows. Started by Digg founder Kevin Rose and its CEO, Jay Adelson, Revision3 sells sponsorships to companies like Go Daddy, Microsoft, and Sony for as much as $10,000 per episode.
Blip.tv has built a platform for syndicating serialized online shows such as Starring Amanda Congdon and TreeHugger TV. Blip provides producers with software, ads, and distribution to websites and blogs. A deal is already signed with Web TV service Akimbo, which lets producers send their videos to TV sets.
Fon In the freewheeling wireless era, the PC is in your pocket and the network is in the air. No surprise, then, that gadgets from Apple’s iPhone to a SanDisk MP3 player are being built with Wi-Fi inside.
But finding a Wi-Fi signal when you need one can be a problem - and a big opportunity for Fon, a Spanish company that’s building a global community of hotspots one router at a time.
The idea for Fon hit founder Martin Varsavsky in late 2005 while he was strolling through Paris with his PDA in search of a signal. Companies like T-Mobile were spending millions of dollars to build hotspot networks and charging dearly for access.
Varsavsky, however, saw the potential for a worldwide Wi-Fi network in the home broadband connections already in place. All that was needed was a service to tie them together.
Here’s how it works: Fon sells a $30 wireless router to consumers. They hook it up, register their node, and agree to share their broadband with other “Foneros” for free. Those who want to charge outsiders for access can do so, and Fon gets a cut. Likewise, if someone wants to pay $2 or $3 to use the Fon network for a day, Fon takes a share of that revenue. Just over a year old, Fon’s network boasts more than 70,000 hotspots. Initially focused on Europe and Asia, Fon plans a big push in the United States in the coming months.
Loopt offers around-the-clock friend tracking. Cell-phone customers are using Loopt to let their buddies see their locations. It’s already a hit with some 100,000 Boost Mobile subscribers who want to know not just what their posse is up to but where it’s at.
A Growing Business
August 9th, 2007
MatthewOur Business is always growing and striving to be more, do more, and make more. We are proud to offer two new services to our growing business. Both further our abilities to build better business.
Professional Web Design Copywriting
It’s one thing to write copy that fits on a website. It’s quite another to write copy that fits in with a website. You wouldn’t try to force an incongruous visual element into a carefully considered design. Same goes for written content. Even if you’ve wisely designed a site around the content it delivers, written copy may fit neatly physically but still ring false to the intended audience.
Ideally, you should work with a writer from day one to design the voice of the copy in conjunction with the visual language of the site. And getting a writer involved early can help you solve lots of other problems—from content strategy issues to information architecture snags. Remember that writers are creatives too, and they are, in many cases, the keepers of the content your design ultimately serves.
Press Release Service
Publicity is the most cost-effective marketing tool there is and it’s the only part of a marketing strategy that builds credibility. Many industries have innovative up-start companies that are relatively unknown. For these new companies to gain an edge over their competition, it is vital that they build credibility through publicity.
We are happy to offer a professional press release service. We write it and send it out all for a low cost.
Update
July 27th, 2007
MatthewWell, I had hoped to have everything put together and be announced by today but we have run into a few glitches. So, next week I be letting you in on the changes, new services , etc.
Company Updates
July 23rd, 2007
MatthewI took the weekend to go over new ideas for the company. We have got some awesome things in the works that will be updated on the site shortly. I am really excited about the team we have here and so are all our clients. It is nice to have the opportunity to help business owners grow their business and in some cases start a new business.
We will start a national marketing campaign within the next few weeks and are working overtime to finish our clients projects and the neccessary changes to get ready for the campaign to start. We are taking our small but efficient design company to new heights. We truly are the leaders in which other design companys copy.
Introducing me, “The New Guy.”
July 18th, 2007
adminHello clients and miscellaneous web surfers! I’m the notorious ROB. I’ll most likely be handling your web, graphic, and other creative needs under the masterful guidance of Mr. Matthew B. If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail me at rob@7daywebdesign.com.
Oh and Matt, “The more you click the better it gets…” although sounds like it is a quote which references 7DayWebDesign web creations - was referring to Pandora.com (or as I like to call it, PimpRadio).
Introducing Donaville
July 13th, 2007
MatthewWe are happy to add Donaville to our company. Donaville just graduated from Cal Poly with a degree in Graphic Communication. She has good experience with css designs and print design.
Introducing Rob!!
July 11th, 2007
adminWe have hired a new designer named Rob. He is fluent in HTML, DHTML, XHTML, CSS, Javascript, and more. He also has considerable experience with PHP, CGI, MySQL, and some very basic knowledge of ASP.NET framework.
He fully understand concepts like forward compatibility, targeting
demographic, and cross browser/cross platform testing.
His skills also include photography.
A former film student, He also have a great understanding
and practical knowledge of film editing and visual effects, as well as image
and video compression and production.
A Huge Disappointment
July 9th, 2007
MatthewAfter 6 months of working with the company. Aaron has been snatched up by a larger web based company here in Temecula. We wish him the best of luck, we will miss him and his family.
TOTW
July 2nd, 2007
adminThis weeks TOTW is a very simple yet profound truth…
“Don’t talk about it… Be about it!!!”
In today’s society everyone has an opinion or is an expert on a given subject, or seems to have all the answers.
I think this deadens what alot of us have to offer. So how to we show what we have to say or offer is valuable.
Well instead of talking like everyone else we can set our selves a step above the rest by just “being about it” and letting our actions or services speak.
take it for what it is…
Aaron I
7 Day Web Design