Category Archives: Public Service, Civics, Government and Activism

Listen to Benjamin Herold’s report on Philadelphian HS students and college

Posted on May 19, 2012 by Karl

NewsWorks: Benjamin Herold for The Notebook and WHYY: “Fixing Philadelphia’s broken pipeline to college”. You can follow more of this report at The Philadephia Public School Notebook and take part in the comment thread there.

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The Dawn of the Municipal Chief Innovation Officer

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Karl

Emily Badger in The Atlantic recently wrote about “The Dawn of the Municipal Chief Innovation Officer”. Technically Philly had a conversation with Philadelphia’s Adel Ebeid, Philadelphia’s first Chief Innovation Officer, back in November last year: “There’s this one side of … Continue reading →

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Al Sweigart: “Nobody Wants to Learn How to Program”

Posted on March 4, 2012 by Karl

Author of “Invent with Python”, Al Sweigart, makes the case for teaching programming skills while enabling children to accomplish something, like making a game, not as an end in and of itself, in “Nobody Wants to Learn How to Program”. … Continue reading →

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TOC 2012 Keynote To Watch: “Is SEO Killing America?”

Posted on March 3, 2012 by Karl

TOC 2012: Clay Johnson, “Is SEO Killing America?”: Related: Metafilter thread. The Information Diet

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“Every day at my job I helped people just barely survive” on Metafilter and Hacker News

Posted on February 19, 2012 by Karl

codacorolla, a librarian, posted his thoughts to a Metafilter conversation about Califaornia cuts to library funding and spurs a terrific thread at Hacker News. Read his entire comment and check out the conversation: “The digital divide isn’t just access, but … Continue reading →

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Go Philly! CyberCoders Reveals Top 10 Cities for Technology Jobs in 2012

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Karl

MarketWatch: “CyberCoders Reveals Houston Beats out San Jose and Silicon Valley as The Leading City for Technology Jobs in 2012. Philadelphia is #3!!!

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Jonathan Stray: “What should the digital public sphere do?”

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Karl

A fantastic piece from Jonathan Stray on “algorithm designers to dedicated curators to, yes, traditional on-the-scene pro journalists, a great many people in different fields now have a part in shaping the digital public sphere”: “What should the digital public … Continue reading →

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If you’re not going dark, help others get informed: Be a Better Activist Day is today

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Karl

Embedded in this post is a stream to an event, starting this morning at 10AM, on getting informed on how Congress works, organized by the author of “Information Diet”, Clay Johnson. There is a fantastic set of speakers that will … Continue reading →

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Daphne Koller of Stanford on Technology as “Passport to Personalized Education”

Posted on January 7, 2012 by Karl

NYTimes: “Death Knell for the Lecture: Technology as a Passport to Personalized Education”: …our approach to education has remained largely unchanged since the Renaissance: From middle school through college, most teaching is done by an instructor lecturing to a room … Continue reading →

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Community Computer Center Opens in Frankford

Posted on January 7, 2012 by Karl

The Frankford Gazette has a post on the new computer center that opened in one of my old neighborhoods, maybe I can stop by and help: “Community Computer Center Open in Frankford”: The majority of the residents of Frankford do … Continue reading →

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