“Say what you mean. Bear witness. Iterate.”
I went on an interesting journey online last night that led me to the source of the above phrase, a poem on mortality, entropy, memory… and databases. Yes, you read that right. I read Tor.com’s...
View Article“Sight”, an eight minute short to see
vimeo: Sight: Sight from Sight Systems on Vimeo. (via Metafilter)
View ArticleHidden City Philadelphia’s Interview With The Ph.ly Team
Read Nathaniel Popkin’s interview with Chris Wink and Brian James Kirk who have coupled a URL shortener with a fantastic newsletter that you’ll want to subscribe to: For The Future Of Ph.ly.
View Article“Mysterious Algorithm Was 4% of Trading Activity Last Week”
According to CNBC an unknown program triggered 4% of trading activity last week: The program placed orders in 25-millisecond bursts involving about 500 stocks, according to Nanex, a market data firm....
View ArticleFavorite Reads for 2012
Following is a list of books, essays, and articles I read (or re-read) which feel worth sharing or re-sharing on on New Years Eve: Books “Thinking in Systems: A Primer”, by Donella H. Meadows “Release...
View ArticleNPR posts a news app HOWTO, along with code
NPR.org: “How to build a news app that never goes down and costs you practically nothing”. Python (Flask, Fabric, Jinja) and Amazon EC2. A nice walk through with code for contribution and reuse.
View ArticleLife Lessons from Programming: Check your assumptions
Jon Udell wrote a short piece that resonated with me on taking a principle from software engineering and applying it to discourse and relationships: “Check your assumptions”. He takes the idea that...
View ArticleNICAR 2013 Links
Mike Ball, coworker and friend, wrote up a great summary of what he saw at NICAR 2013. It was great hearing his enthusiasm when he got back from what sounds like was a fantastic conference. Check out...
View Article“Rebuilding the News”, How Did We Get Here and Why?
All great innovations come from an alchemy of the present *built* on the past. If you can tear it apart, see it from multiple perspectives, and observe the feedback loops that feed into the systems...
View ArticleRead how a few Philly students organized themselves to a few hundred to be heard
AxisPhilly: Isaiah Thompson: “How a few Philly high school students organized themselves into a few hundred in four days”: It began, not surprisingly perhaps, with a modest online message. About two...
View ArticleBlogging Dead?
Jason Kottke wrote for Nieman Journalism Lab an opinion piece, that along with the additional notes he added on on his personal blog, I mostly agree with. The roles that blogs grew to take on during...
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Happy 25th World Wide Web!
Hard to believe that the World Wide Web launched into being on March 12th, 1994. Its ethos, its architectural principals, and its use, have helped to open the world to each of us, with the simple power...
View ArticleProfile of Mark Horvath, creating an online home for the stories of the homeless
Philantropy.com: “After Living on the Streets, a Nonprofit Leader Seeks to Give the Homeless a Voice”. Check out Mark Horvath’s Invisible People.
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What is a Data Journalism Organization?
Yesterday, Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight launched, making a bet that you want news stories backed by data to help find the signal in the noise. Like Garret said, succinctly, it’s exciting. In addition...
View ArticleA hosted blog at Philly.com to subscribe to: One Step Away
One Step Away is a monthly ‘street newspaper’ produced by people experiencing homelessness in the Philadelphia region. I always make sure to pick up a copy once or twice a month from its many vendors...
View ArticleBret Victor’s Highly Recommended Things
Check out Bret Victor’s “Highly Recommended Things”, his five star list of favorite things in the world, a mixture of fun, thought provokers and horizon expanders, and much, much more. There’s a lot...
View ArticleWe are always rational beings….
John Klein wrote up a short, but great list of cognitive biases and how they effect software engineering that might be an eye opener for some. Via Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing. (also… all...
View ArticleBlogging is far from dead
Last year I started to drive this old car around the block a few times and realized it still has it where it counts. This year, time permitting, it will feature some experiments and renovations with...
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It’s tough to forecast the weather, but easy to spead fear
I think Dan Gillmor nailed it with this. Not that I blame CNN alone for the school closings and long lines at the grocery store. Fear spreads fast. Last night I spent a silly amount of time refreshing...
View ArticleDo you have a personal kanban that you’ve shared?
Jim Benson challenges us with the idea that your Personal Kanban board isn’t just for our own private use, but is something to be shared with your family, and with your team. How many folks would be...
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