8 am your time – in ArgentinaedPunk – Teaching kids to code – our daughters are going for it!
I love the idea that Japan is “trading” nuclear tech to the Middle East – in exchange for Oil. Russia is also getting into the act – offering to build and operate Nuclear Tech in emerging nations….
Wanna know where Beats’ “Daisy” is gonna get it’s on-going curation of playlists?
Congrats to JoyTunes – on some awesome musical games… and funding….
Google Index cards – as a design motif
Blogging 2.0 – a Renaisance in Blogging
Building a Digital “City on the Hill”
Building the Gigabit City – the eBook
Jakarta: the world class Digital City
The Fargo on-line outliner – keeps getting better
Startup Weekend ED – in SF – June 7-9
The edSurge newsletter looks intense!
Turns out the UK has lots of shale rock as well. Can you say “Fracking envy?”
The Kynetx “Forever” system: address book with no database
Stephen Downes does a DAILY newsletter – he’s one of the guys who figured out MOOCs
I love the notion of the “School of life” – learning in pubs, etc. Do you know what a ‘laneway’ is?
Fab Lab SD founds a hardware accelerator
The Laws of Kashrut in the age of Industrial Farming. Fighting for Ethical meat.
Congrats to Gladstone, MO on becoming a Google Fiber city.
aSmallWorld now a $105 travel club – we built version2 of aSmallWorld!
Tutor Universe, Living room Opera, DevoBots, Rightware, SketchPartyTV,
Back home now…..
The Witch is dead, the Witch is dead – long live the software package delivery system!
Google is announcing a FIFTH city – this time Grandview, MO. Now mind you – Shawnee and Grandview ain’t cities – but who’s counting?
Personal Information Is the Currency of the 21st Century
CSS Zen Garden revived for its 10th anniversary. This USED to be my favorite website!
I’ll be tracking Innovation, Entrepreneurism and high schoolers/middle schoolers – from now on
There but for the grace of GOD – go I
Flipboard now enables User generated iPad and Android magazines…..
Back in SF – getting work done
Four coding schools just for girls
the battle of music discovery – playlists – continues
Educational gaming accelerator
Bringing “Personal Cloud” to the market
The problem with Africa’s new tech cities
Jakarta: World Class Digital City
Indoor Wifi positioning – is the new black
Ben Bareth is getting famous….
Global Citizen, Truckily, Enstitute, Technovation Challenge,
Spring is finally showing up – right on schedule…. Back in SF again – my old home. Weather is perfect.
Dam straight we’re facing new openness challenges – and we won’t give up!
Clearly the ‘Industrial Internet’ is a buzz word who’s day has come….
Preparing ourselves for Innovation Standards
Coworks – like like a great site for freelancers
Staples agrees to aggressive e-waste standards
Adam Pritzker moves on – Assembling Brands…
APIs rising – ProgrammableWeb sold – again
Fiber to Fiber Speedtest: Google Fiber (Kansas City) to EPB (Chattanooga)
The rise and $23 billion fall of text messaging
More on Learning Analytics – now owned by Pearson
iTunes 10th anniversary interactive timeline
Crossfader Move & Mix, Shapeways (3D printing marketplace), MakeLoveNotPorn, GetYourBusinessOnline, myEDmatch
My wife and daughter are going on a Girl Scout overnight camping trip – only one problem. Its snowing.
30 steps to becoming a Digital City
And so the downfall of Facebook – officially begins
Grooveshark Broadcast – is trying new things out and skirting the laws… only a matter of time
Three coolio Greek urban projects
IBM buys Cleveland based ‘UrbanCode’
Thoughtful insights into the future of RSS readers
Coolio dynamic interface called Digital City
Zonoff is smart, big data software for the connected home
StackLife/explain - StackLife/tool
Quincy Jones and Playground Sessions
KC area education software maker Netchemia
Marijuana Industrialist – more like wine business than tobacco – and his investment fund
Andrew Keen discovers Doug Rushkoff’s new book “Present Shock”
Shortest Path Modelling and NavMesh in Unity and CityEngine
Thorium can be used to burn nuclear waste and generate energy from it
Staples agrees to e-waste standards
Competency based college – gets approved
How reframing a problem helps unlock Innovation
Visual Webcaster (by Onstream Media), Prollie, Giving Vine goes green, SuperCut.org, Seelio, Gizmox, FlashFlow,
The term 420 and today’s date (and the hour 4:20) have become synonymous with marijuana. Otherwise known as reefer. Or Pot.
As a young man I began smoking reefer, being too young to be a Hippie and eventually figuring out that I was too old to be a Yuppie. Instead I became a Me generation software entrepreneur who tried to change the world – in my own way. It was from my father and grandfather’s idealism, my mother’s community activism and the spirit of creativity that I based my life upon.
For 44 years – that creativity has been driven by reefer.
This is the first 420 day that Marijuana is legal somewhere in America. I’ve been going to Amsterdam since 1975 (the same year Steve Jobs and Dan Kottke went to India) so this is truly a momentous day. Congrats to the States of Colorado and Washington and congrats to the various Marijuana Industrialists, Howard Rosenthal, NORML and the others – who helped get us to this day.
Once legal marijuana research and investment starts to increase, I think we’ll see a whole lotta benefits to legalization besides tax dollars – but cash is a great place to start. Cash is what created this prohibition in the first place and hemp will now become a major legal plant for medicinal herbs, rope, clothing, food and lord knows – what else (can you spell “massage oil?” Cellulose?)
At 4:20 this afternoon people in Denver and Seattle will take to the streets.
We’ve only just begun.
No longer do we have to hide under the bridges – to enjoy a smoke.
Photo credit = Dave Winer, Grey Area – Amsterdam 1998
BTW that’s a chunk of Hash…… Afghani is memory serves me well.
Dave Winer’s new company – Little Picture – has released Fargo – a web based outliner. I’ll cover this more – in a separate blog post.
Google picks up the steam – buys Utopia from the city of Provo, Utah. Not sure how many of oyu have been tracking this evolution of gigabit networking (call you say “Digitale Trieste?”) _ but for me – Project Utopia in Provo, UT was one of the FIRST muni broadband plays – ever! Now it’ll be Google third city. Indeed they’ll have to spend some money ‘upgrading’ – as they sure as hell haven’t been running pieces of glass into people’s homes in Provo, but hey I bet the backend and middle level stuff is just FINE. Thank you Google – and as the “perfect storm moment” slips away from Kansas City – I just wanna say “I told you so……………” KC moved WAY TOO SLOW! And is STILL moving too slow! But needless to say – I’m prejudiced in my thinking…………
Citibank eliminated their entire digital marketing team and made EVERYONE become digitally savvy! AWESOME!
theCivicCommons is no more – Dan Moulthrop is now the CEO of the City Club – congrats to Dan
edTech bubble – VCs are swarming like Lemmings – again
Upgrade able hardware as Nirvana – for cars
Brad Feld awards free rent – for a year – to Handprint!
Tales from the trenches from my old friend – Ty Roberts
Why are International conferences – so bad?
Samsung S4 camera looks awesome – watch out Apple!
Attracting more Immigrants to Northeast Ohio - good luck with that!
Intel is buying Mashery – congrats to Scott Rafer – on an exit!
Guggenheim Digital on the march – with Ross Levinsohn at the helm
The current state of “launching apps/games” = $$$$$
Zya has now taken $27M in VC – all PRE-launch!
Tastebuds – music based dating service
Both our girls are in Girl Scouts (our youngest is “just” a Brownie) – now it looks like they can earn badges for videogame programming! As Macklemore says “this is fucking AWESOME!”
Aviary Photo Editor 2.0 looks great! Complete re-write!
Fertilizer plant exploding – 60-70 people dead – all on viral video “Dad – please lets get out of here!”
beautiful freelancer working spaces
God bless this country. Who wants to bet on who did the terrorist bombing in Boston? Right wing whackos or Islamic Jihadists? My money is on the former. Afterall – it is Tax Day – and they want their representation – and gun laws – but no Jews, Women or anybody who doesn’t look like them.
18 new fiberhoods in Kansas City
Momentum for legalized marijuana continues – everybody likes the tax dollars
Local Democracy and the Digital City – in KC
Greetings from China – says the Cleveland Business Delegation
Songza is all about curated playlists
Sony ups the ante with a 2Gbps network
Indeed – its good to be back home.
Doug Rushkoff’s new book “Present Shock” is rocking…..
OpenCo as a movement – sponsored by AMEX
The Tim O’Reilly scam is outed
Michael Fagen is complaining that I blog too much coolio stuff. Tee Hee Hee
We need more husslers like Corrie
Building Digital City flybys using Greeble
7 out of the top 10 Reggae hits this week – are all white guys
Lots of coolio visual mixers and controllers
Instructure sounds like a good addition to the EdTech ecosystem
KC tech advocates weigh in on Austin’s addition to the Fiber family
Its really awesome to get comments from old users, who used to use our software – for endless hours. Thanks to Nathanael!
Its great to hear that city officials are concerned over unemployment and skills gap. These are TRUE leaders. How long did it take them to figure THAT out?
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