September 2011
11 posts
Fiscal policy: Fiscal policy failure or failure to... →
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Cory Bergman: How 'economies of proximity' help... →
corybe:
My wife Kate Bergman and I co-founded a network of Seattle neighborhood news sites in late 2007 called Next Door Media. Today, the 10 sites along with our regional guide bring in 230,000 unduplicated unique users a month with a combined social media following of nearly 40,000 fans and…
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ONA Unconference: It's not the medium, it's the... →
vote up my panel and get a good earful before the awards. because you want it. you know you do.
onaunconference:
We used to tell them that it was ok, we weren’t throwing the baby out with the bathwater when we were going online. We’d keep holding the principles and ethics near and dear. But, if we look at ourselves honestly, was it the Internet that killed our business, or was it the people...
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“Children today are surrounded by software from their game consoles, over their...”
– From Happynerds.net, a site with resources for teaching kids to program (via lifeandcode)
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Life and Code: Code to make a point; code to make... →
lifeandcode:
To me, the big question for any voluntary effort — anything you are doing that you don’t have to do — is this:
Why bother?
Why bother learning to code? I mean, no lie, it’s hard. It’s not impossible, and you can get somewhere useful in 8 weeks if you start in the right place — but it’s still…
“And yet conservatives and industry trade groups regularly assert utterly...”
– Conservatives just as wrong on climate economics as they are on climate science | Grist
