Are there really Two Americas?

One of my closest friends has been stuck on the lower rungs of employment for years now. He’s a hard worker, pays his bills, and struggles everyday to get by. He’s moving to Florida for a part time job with a big company hoping that that it’s his ticket to stability.

I was once right there with him and someday I plan on sharing the rest of my story. The thing about it is that it occurred years ago, in a world that seems as different from now as day is from night.

slacktivist comments on an article by Leigh Strope for the Associated Press where she reports on the growing gap.

Could someone from my background do what I did today? Does that kind of opportunity still exist?

Slashdot: Tech Employment Drops Sharply In 2004.

No it’s true! Really! Read about it at Yahoo!. And yes, this is an old article, but I’m catching up here…

Using Convention Bloggers and doing my work building NePhilly4Kerry.org helped me to realize what was so broken at Philly Future: its RSS aggregator. It sucked. It didn’t fulfill the most basic requirements of a good aggregator, and so I’ve redesigned it. Now you can see the most recent posts right where you should – at the very top of the page.

Speaking of NePhilly4Kerry.org, I’m real excited about it. It will be maintained by our Kerry for 2004 Meetup.com group. For many it will be their first experience blogging. Come on by and say hi folks.

NePhilly4Kerry.org.. not ready for prime time… but very close.

Check out this ACLU produced Flash movie that is so close to reality, it’s scary. You can do almost all of this today without the national ID number, I would have omitted that.