Every few days there’s a new post at Mike’s blog or on his Facebook profile documenting his terrific progress.
Dude – it will be great to see you. You’re an inspiration man.
Why it’s expensive to be poor
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.
CMS links for Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
Hope you had a good Memorial Day
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?
Getting rid of ‘social media’ and ‘social software’ tags here
The terms ‘social media’ and ‘social software’ may have been useful for educational purposes a few years ago when development or business leaders were not versed in the changing nature of media or online tool sets, but no longer. Both terms have long ago been appropriated by marketers. The term ‘social media expert’ means that person is a marketer. Nothing more, nothing less. And nothing against marketers.
So first, I am simply renaming all ‘social media’ and ‘social software’ tags across the site to ‘internet’. I will do the same with the site category (that requires a proper 301 redirect) hopefully later tonight.
There is a haiku here somewhere, just know it
mom I’m drawing a map
we go to around that twister
its on that map
all finished
oh wow wow wow
first we go round
over the bridge
road get bumpy
then you go thru
theres a little nut
its mikey’s party
its a twisty
i call it the planet
i draw a gate and a rock
the rock is inside the gate
im almost finished dad
i need more colors
im all finished
dad move your computer out of the way
round and around and around
lets play the orange cat
Comcast Interactive Media developer stories for Sunday May 17th, 2009
Tom Baker, writing for O’Reilly’s Inside RIA: Getting Involved in Higher Education – some great thoughts on why developers should consider teaching.
Jon Moore on RSA Public Key Cryptography in Java
Arpit Mathur: My experience with Git and why I think Open Source projects should be released on Git
Aaron Held: Peeling back the onion of stupidity
Mat Schaffer: What I Learned About Cookies This Week
And a shout out to Roz Duffy for encouraging me (and others) to read “The Adventures of Johnny Bunko” – a fantastic career (and life) improvement guide – written manga style!
Parenting, Education and Inspiration for Sunday May 17, 2009
Inquirer: Bari Pepe, 46, Years of trauma behind her, now she wants to aid others – ex-addict acheives master’s in social work. Very inspiring story. Read it.
The Boston Globe: Inside the baby mind: It’s unfocused, random, and extremely good at what it does. How we can learn from a baby’s brain. – “Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recovered at will.” – Metafilter thread.
New Yorker: The secret of self-control. – let your toddler’s imagination be free, encourage creativity, to try and try again, and understand that we have the power of choice.
Hacking Education – A New York Venture Capital Fund Focused on Early Stage & Startup Investing
NYTimes: Marc C. Taylor: End the University as We Know It – straight up inspiration about tearing down the status quo to meet the needs of today and tomorrow.
CSMonitor: In tough times, graduates (and parents) assess the worth of a liberal arts education – just an opinion – I think liberal arts majors are well positioned for the economy of today and tomorrow.
Deseret News: Universities will be ‘irrelevant’ by 2020, Y. professor says
Tom Baker: Getting Involved in Higher Education – software engineers should seriously consider teaching, here’s why.
Slashdot.org: With a Computer Science Degree, an Old Man At 35?
Inquirer: Daniel Rubin: Grads, please note: It’s not about you
xkcd: 1000 Times – its all about context isn’t it?
Smart aggregation and API use in NPRbackstory
NPRbackstory is an automated Twitter feed that attempts to add context to the news stories trending popular today according to Google’s Hot Trends. It leverages NPR’s archives (very smart, as Joshua Benton notes archives are underused assets), and Yahoo! Pipes to produce a RSS feed that is fed into the NPRbackstory account. It was developed by Keith Hopper of NPR’s Public Interactive group.
Read Joshua Benton’s piece at Nieman Journalism Lab
Read more about it at Keith Hopper’s blog.
Check out his other Twitter related project – Twitterstars – a tool to find local Twitter power tweeters.
Hope you had a great Mother’s Day
We just got back from a terrific weekend down the shore to celebrate Mother’s Day. I hope all the moms out there had a terrific one.
Richelle – I hope you had a great one sweetheart. We love you.