Monthly Archives: September 2009

Living on Ten Dollars an Hour

Posted on September 27, 2009 by Karl

A short (15min) online documentary: Ten Dollars an Hour from Ben Guest on Vimeo. via Susie Madrak

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Great Maven Quick Start

Posted on September 27, 2009 by Karl

Josh Long: “A Survival Guide to Maven, OR, Why Maven’s Still Cool” – nicely done.

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Some of my Emacs defaults (in .emacs)

Posted on September 27, 2009 by Karl

(defvar my-dir-root (expand-file-name “~/elisp”)) (set-default-font “-apple-consolas-medium-r-normal–13-0-72-72-m-0-iso10646-1″) ; appending to the elisp load path for our stuff (setq load-path (cons my-dir-root load-path)) ; stop that splash screen (setq inhibit-splash-screen t) ; set the fill column (setq-default fill-column 79) ; set the … Continue reading →

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Healthcare, wealthcare, death due to lack of care

Posted on September 27, 2009 by Karl

Think Progress: Uninsured 22-Year-Old Boehner Constituent Dies From Swine Flu Update: Report: Miami U. Grad Did Not Have H1N1 – Kimi Young Died Of Viral Pneumonia The New Republic: WealthCare The Atlantic: How American Healthcare Killed My Father

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Programming Links for September 27, 2009

Posted on September 27, 2009 by Karl

Kimberly Blessing: Craftmanship can change the world Tim Bray: On Duct Tape: Slashdot thread Dare Obasanjo: Duct Tape Programmers and the Culture of Complexity in Software Projects Chris Smith: “What To Know Before Debating Type Systems” Making Good Software: “Programmers … Continue reading →

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These are connected: Future of Journalism Links and Communication for September 23, 2009

Posted on September 23, 2009 by Karl

Ethan Zuckerman covered a Clay Shirky talk given at the Shorenstein Center” on journalism today and its future. It’s an absolute must read for media/info/com future thinkers: “Clay Shirky and accountability journalism”. Mark Bowden traces the path a story takes, … Continue reading →

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If you build it, but don’t participate, you get what you deserve

Posted on September 23, 2009 by Karl

The Nieman Journalism Lab: Mathew Ingram: Newspapers get the kind of communities they deserve: many newspapers still see comments as some kind of necessary evil: a bone tossed to readers to help drive traffic, but something that produces little else … Continue reading →

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Two old friends on “This I Believe”

Posted on September 19, 2009 by Karl

Listen to Bill Wedo and Wendy Warren.

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Will Bunch: “People want a magic bullet… it’s not there”

Posted on September 19, 2009 by Karl

Will Bunch: Inquirer editor says you’re going to pay for this Joshua-Michéle Ross : Stop Giving the Newspapers Your Advice – They Don’t Need It Realistic views I heard at the norgs unconference maybe finally taking hold.

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Deploy from Alfresco to eXist and CouchDb

Posted on September 19, 2009 by Karl

Alfresco Tech Talk Live: 4.17.09: FSR Callbacks – Deploying to eXist and CouchDb.

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