Dr. Tae: “Building A New Culture Of Teaching And Learning”:
TED.com: “Dave Eggers’ wish: Once Upon A School”
TED.com: “Alan Kay shares a powerful idea about ideas”:
TED.com: “Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity”:
Metafilter Thread: Scratch, a beginner’s programming language
Shamus Young: Scratch
The New York Observer: In the Battle Between Facebook and MySpace, A Digital ‘White Flight’
FlowingData: Rise of the Data Scientist
Coding Horror: Code: It’s Trivial
Zero Intelligence Agents: How to: Use Python and Social Network Analysis to Find New Twitter Friends
Tim O’Reilly: Radical Transparency: The New Federal IT Dashboard (and check out the site itself at it.usaspending.gov)
Data.gov iteratively grows from 47 to 100,000 data feeds (source Atrios)
EveryBlock blog: EveryBlock source code released
Tim Bray: “Hello World” for Open Data – Tim Bray reviews, and is inspired by, happenings in Vancover.
And locally SEPTA has started to work with Google to help riders plan trips online
A huge round of thanks needs to go to the folks behind iSepta for showing just what is possible.
This and more was discussed at this year’s Personal Democracy Forum – which I missed, which I hopefully won’t next year. Sounds like it was a great event.
Related:
O’Reilly radar: John Geraci: The Four Pillars of an Open Civic System
Ignite Philly 2: Geoff DiMassi and Paul Wright “Open Source Philadelphia”
You lose your job. You have trouble paying your bills. Your credit report suffers. Your credit report then gets used by some potential employers as a reason not to hire you.
Don’t believe it happens? The LA Times has a report for you. via Susie Madrak.
Thought provoking, conversation starting, and probably controversial counting upon who you are, check out the whole single page comic.
Reddit: Why it’s expensive to be poor – 1024 comments so far
Hacker News: Why it’s expensive
to be poor – 193 comments so far.
Metafilter: You have to be riche to be poor – 230 comments so far
And the original piece by DeNeen L. Brown in the Washington Post that inspired the conversation.
We spent Memorial Day Spring cleaning, Emma, Richelle, and now me, dealing with some nasty sniffles and coughs. As the day wound down, Emma’s Grandparents came by for some hamburgers and hot dogs, and I got the opportunity to tell Emma that the day was a holiday for people like her Granddad who served in the military, serving all of us.
NPR: Memorial Day Miracle At ‘The Wall’
NPR: Keeping The Memory Of World War II Veterans Alive
NPR: Memorial Day: Not Just For Barbecue
Why is it that we don’t hold our elected officials – hold ourselves – to ethical codes (if not similar then complimentary) that we honor our military for? Is it because we don’t permit ourselves to share such burden that we are, as Rafe Colburn says, losing our moral compass?