I'm experimenting with my newest gadget. Since my preferred learning modality is so overwhelmingly visual, it's taken me awhile to get into this audio thing; but having purchased a digital audio recorder for other, non-blogging reasons, I thought I'd take it with me to yesterday's Planning Commission meeting with the consultants from ACP to test it out. In addition to being a relatively successful test of the recorder's technical abilities in being able to pick up a roomful of discussion, I'm able to share some interesting material which was presented at the meeting.

As a teaser, here's a two-minute clip of consultant Randy Gross of Randall Gross/Development Economics talking about some of his findings related to the housing market in the Northfield area. This got my attention because it was an economic development argument I hadn't really considered before.

Our Nielson ratings indicate that the Planning Commission meetings on NTV have quite a following, but I like having options, and some may prefer the ability to listen to the meetings while doing something else that's actually productive at the same time. If you're a masochist, you can download and listen to the whole darned almost-three-hour thing here.