August 2010
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“As a longtime parks director, the whole situation is ridiculous,” he said....”
– School system removing swings - The Herald Dispatch
WV schools removing swing sets due to fear of litigation and rising insurance costs. via @grantmeaccess
Isn't it great when
Me: Hey Michael, wouldn't it be great if there was an EtherPad for drawing? So we could just sketch out some diagrams while we're working on the words in EtherPad?
Michael: Yeah that would be awesome
Me: (googles for "etherdraw" and finds EtherDraw.com)
Amazing!
Phil pointed me towards some new music last week....
First (rough) demo site is up. →
openblock:
Plenty of known rough spots: The homepage map doesn’t have popups yet, and the theme could use work, and there are some broken pages. And there are no maps on pages other than the front page.
Woot! The first peek at OpenBlock, our new Knight Foundation project to open source the Everyblock.com code and get it running at several newspapers, including the Boston Globe and the...
Conductor: This is the Amtrak Acela number 2166 to Boston. If you have a ticket for train number 2165 to Washington D.C., please exit now. Your train is on another platform.
Conductor: All aboard! Next stop: New Haven.
(time passes)
Conductor: To the woman with the ticket on train number 2165 to Washington D.C. please meet me in the cafe car immediately.
(train makes a special stop at New Rochelle; unfortunate passenger finds her own way back to Penn Station)
Conductor: This is New Haven. This is the 2166 Acela to Boston. Anyone with a ticket to Washington please step off the train before I close the doors.
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WatchWake Up Everybody - John Legend & The Roots ft Melanie Fiona & Common music video premiere | lyrics | Slack-Time
I can’t wait to buy this album. This video was filmed in Brooklyn Heights, 1 block from my high school.
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“The trick, says Bryant, is to understand the content world as an ecosystem. When...”
– BMI President Del Bryant on their approach to working with new content distribution channels as they emerge. From today’s NY Times Mag article: The Music Copyright Enforcers. This approach seems in line with what LimeWire is trying to do.
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WatchAnd finally, here’s a clip from an upcoming documentary about Hypnotic. As profiled in the New Yorker earlier this summer.
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WatchHere’s a video of Hypnotic playing a club gig. Super high energy.
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When I need to knuckle down and work on something,...
“Why? Because New York is the greatest city in the world. So, I’m going to do my...”
– New York is the greatest city in the world and will take over the tech industry just like it has taken over every other industry, I don’t care what Antonio Garcia-Martinez says - HireHive
David Albert on why NYC is a great city for tech and for startups.
You go, Dave!
Wanted: IRC Time Tracking
We are experimenting with project management and time tracking tools. There are a lot of options. Amazingly, I’ve yet to see one that has IRC-integrated time tracking. We might build something like this using the Assembla API:
/msg timebot {project-id} {task-id} {time-in-hours} {note}
Does this already exist?
“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple...”
– John Gall, from Systemantics, as quoted in Chapter 1. Government As a Platform
“Rather than simply limiting the size or power of an entrenched player, can...”
– Chapter 1. Government As a Platform
O’Reilly’s Govt As a Platform piece is worth a good read.
WatchA Case for Open Data in Transit (by Streetfilms)
I narrated this review of the “open data” movement in transportation — great interviews with MassDOT, MTA, Tim O’Reilly, Robin Chase of ZipCar, and more…
“It’s too hard to put data on the web. It’s too hard to get data off the web. We...”
– Open Data needs Open Source tools - A Healthy Information Diet - InfoVegan.com