BendTech

Welcome

Robert Kieffer — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:37:37 +0000

Welcome to BendTech, the long-running blog about Central Oregon’s tech community. As you can see, this site doesn’t get a lot of love. If you’re new to the area I’d suggest going to the Tech Alliance of Central Oregon website – it has some great resources for tapping into our tech scene. You might also [...]

RichBlocksPoorBlocks.com

Robert Kieffer — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:38:07 +0000

http://www.richblockspoorblocks.com/ is a nifty little utility for visualizing household income by zip code (more or less.) The map of Bend clearly highlights the eastside-westside divide that we’re all familiar with. Average income on the east side is $34K, and on the west side is $70K. Pretty striking difference.

2012 Meetup Analysis

Robert Kieffer — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:37:37 +0000

For this blog’s somewhat unreliable tradition of reflecting on the past year in Central Oregon’s tech scen, I thought I’d take a look at quantitative look at some of our tech meetups. Specifically, I’ve put together an analysis of group membership and activity that may be of interest. I’m mostly doing this so we have something [...]

A Micro/Macro-Scopic Look At The Internet

Robert Kieffer — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:50:32 +0000

Here’s a challenge for you: write a 2000 word article that describes what the Internet is and how it works. In layman’s terms. Include an explanation of how the Internet is “shaped” and what that means. Also explain the historical and political significance, including an brief aside into the role it had in the Arab [...]

PerfectMenu on TechCrunch

Robert Kieffer — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:10:11 +0000

Props to PerfectMenu for scoring some coverage on TechCrunch! PerfectMenu started at Bend’s first Startup Weekend event, just a couple weeks ago. To go from nothing to TechCrunch in such a short span of time is something to be proud of. Now, if they can just pay off the picture frame the used to frame [...]