Monthly Archives: April 2011

Princess Power

Posted on April 23, 2011 by Karl

Debra Levin Gelman wrote a terrific post about the princess paradox on Wednesday that I’ve been meaning to comment on here. Toys, clothes, media, just about any kind of consumer good marketed for young girls uses ‘the Princess’ as a … Continue reading →

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Elisabeth Sladen, “Sarah Jane Smith”, Rest In Peace

Posted on April 23, 2011 by Karl

Elisabeth Sladen, the actress who was Sarah Jane Smith on “Doctor Who” and the spin off children’s show, “The Sarah Jane Adventures”, passed away on Wednesday the 20th, at 63 from cancer. I could probably write quite a bit about … Continue reading →

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11 Years of Experience Growing Metafilter

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Karl

Metafilter has been running for over 11 years now and it remains one of the greatest online communities. Matt Haughey’s SXSW talk, “Real World Moderation: Lessons from 11 Years of Community”, was videoed, it’s 40 minutes well spent, covering the … Continue reading →

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Read the speech instead of letting pundits summarize it for you

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Karl

Text of Obama Speech on the Deficit – Washington Wire – WSJ.

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Continuous Deployment with Jenkins and Vagrant

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Karl

Gareth Rushgrove, of the Guardian, shares a basic continuous deployment setup using Jenkins and Vagrant.

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An open data challenge from Anil Dash

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Karl

Anil Dash: “The Health Graph: Mortal Threats & Signs of Life”: As a community of developers and technologists, we have to build powerful, indispensable apps and services on top of this data. Killer apps that save lives. If we can … Continue reading →

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Be a Builder, not a Leader

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Karl

Read Umair Haque’s Builders’ Manifesto and get inspired. Screw that actually. Put it into action. Be it. Because the organizations we are part of need it to navigate the fast pace of change. Because our communities need us to act … Continue reading →

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NYTimes Critics Picks: ‘The Warriors’

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Karl

This movie got under my brother and my skin as kids. I have no idea how we originally saw it (must have been VHS), and we were pre-teens. Seeing the review here was fun. video.nytimes.com: A.O. Scott: Critics’ Picks: ‘The … Continue reading →

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“The hard work you do on one program is put in on all programs.”

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Karl

A great quote, from a great post, from a great blog, “Knowing and Doing: Commas, Refactoring, and Learning to Program”.

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The News needs an Anti-Virus (and it’s us)

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Karl

Passing this one along from Dave Winer because the sooner we think of passing along things we dislike on the Web, that only can exist with our attention, as viruses, the sooner we remove their influence. So you *hate* the … Continue reading →

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