The old Think Lafayette design was fine (meh) but wasn’t going to work with our future plans, which included an overhaul of the blog structure and the addition of sales on the site. We gave it a little face lift. TL is coming up on its first birthday soon. My favorite part of the project…
Nobody can argue that the Greater Lafayette area doesn’t have a lot of restaurants. Local mythology is that we have the greatest restaurant per capita ratio in the United States. Believe it? Depends. But that does mean that we spend a lot of Friday and Saturday nights saying, “Where do you want to eat?” “I…
Southern transplants, bacon enthusiasts, and 30 Rock fans, have I got something for you: a silly widget of a website made by Ed Finkler, the web developer, tech community organizer, and local funny guy we profiled last year.
Think Lafayette is a pet project that I co-founded with a long-time friend. This site is a group blog that covers life and recreation in the Greater Lafayette, Indiana, area. We promote cool businesses and young movers and shakers in the local scene. A group of interesting, cool, and creative young professionals have come together…
Fort Wayne, Indiana, has been on the bad end of some press lately, from being named the fattest and dumbest city in the nation, to the most riddled with cholesterol. Ouch. This, along with the ever-present issue of brain drain, inspired a promotional campaign that pulled together the city’s hip-hop scene to make a video…
Attached is the latest play on the soda vs. pop maps that clutter up your Facebook wall. The point of the exercise is less about how we name our food and more about how to use technology to map geographic variations, in this case tracking a language variation related to a common household purchase on…
In 2010, novelist Patricia Henley wrote a thoughtful piece for the Smithsonian magazine on how she came to the Lafayette area, her decision to make this her home, and the persistent conversation among other Indiana writers who are “always trying to decide whether to go or stay.” I happened across this essay again the other…
TL: For nine years, Ed Finkler served as web lead and security researcher at The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) at Purdue University. He participated in open source web app development in his free time for years, including developing Spaz, a long-running, award-winning micro-blogging client. Today Ed is a…
Forbes magazine has once again recognized the Lafayette area as a community of choice, this time as #15 in a list of the best small cities for business and careers, measuring job growth, education ranks, and cost of doing business metrics. We come in right between Johnson City, TN, and Sioux City, IA. Earlier this…
Earlier this month, we were proud to report that Lafayette, Indiana, was ranked among the top smartest cities in the United States. We could conclude that our scores were artificially high because of the number of students represented in the area, but their findings controlled for age and thus they believe that the number of…
After avoiding the heat and the crowd at the Taste of Tippecanoe for a couple of years, I was pleasantly surprised at the size of the event and the mix of folks it drew to the downtown district last Saturday. It was a good time — there was a lot to see, tons of food,…
TL: The Think Lafayette team became familiar with Ben Cotton through Twitter, when Ben became a beacon for local tweeps who were looking for information about inclement weather. To date, Ben has tweeted us through hail, thunder and lightning, a handful of tornado watches, and several nerve-wracking snowstorms. Ben, you’ve developed quite a local following…
