*Beginning in July 2012, Bo serves as the Director of Educational Innovation at Unboundary, a strategic design studio in Atlanta, Georgia, specializing in transformational change processes, communications, and brand significance. Bo remains active as an edu-blogger at It’s About Learning (http://itsaboutlearning.wordpress.com) and @boadams1 on Twitter. Additionally, Bo regularly pursues deeper understanding in the area of “schools of the future and the future of schools (Educating Kids).” (more)

borough of NYC (more)

PyCon was the scene of a huge Dongle Gate - with the accused and accuser both getting fired, over 1 or more sexual (not even sexist) jokes.

term I use for some of my barely-coherent ideas

Brain Fart Of The Day: Public Policy Open Charrette

On a CoWorking thread for NextNY, I came up with a Brain Fart for going after Nyc Challenges related to having a Critical Mass of Start Up development. (more)

Christopher Shea on the critics of Richard Florida, esp Joel Kotkin. As for Kotkin's alternate list of hot spots, Florida says: "I will take any day Boston and San Francisco and New York over Las Vegas and Des Moines and the rest of Joel's cities." The latter group, he points out, just end up manufacturing and distributing what the more "creative" cities have invented.

people who don't get their hands dirty during their DayJob (more)

Some Richard Florida links: (more)

increase in economic activity (more)

Urban Design model by Richard Florida. (more)

Haven't gotten any warnings from Blue Host yet, but sure I must still have issue like in 2012-03-01-BluehostTooManyMoinFiles. (more)

includes both online retail transactions and "B2B" activities, I suppose (more)

My current tools/habits: (more)

Mind Jet bought the Thinking Space Mind Mapping app for Android which I use on my Nexus One (for my To-Do List) and on my Archos70 (for general Mind Mapping). They've killed the cloud-DataSynch feature that used to work so nicely. You can still email yourself a copy, which I suppose provides Back Up, but isn't very convenient for actual Synch. People are rather pissed. They seem to have screwed up the communication here. (more)

for Fractally Generative Pattern Language (more)

Heroku has now added support for Python and Django. (more)

Fred Wilson and USV are now very interested in flexible Work Market-s (Labor Market, Network Economy). Our firm is seeing these work markets sprout up all around us and if there is a single investment theme that is dominating our deal flow right now, this would be it. Christina touched on this in her recent blog post on the USV blog (the section she titled "work is shifting to a peer to peer model"). (more)

Time banking is a pattern of reciprocal Service Exchange that uses units of time as Currency. It is an example of an alternative monetary system. A time bank, also known as a service exchange, is a community that practices time banking... Time banking is primarily used to provide incentives and rewards for work such as mentoring children, caring for the elderly, being neighborly—work usually done on a volunteer basis—which a pure market system devalues. Essentially, the "time" one spends providing these types of community services earns "time" that one can spend to receive services.[1] As well as gaining credits, participating individuals, particularly those more used to being recipients in other parts of their lives, can potentially gain confidence,social contact and skills through giving to others. Communities therefore use time banking as a tool to forge stronger intra-community connections, a process known as "building Social Capital." Time banking had its intellectual genesis in the U.S. in the early 1980s.[2] By 1990, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation had invested US $1.2 million to pilot time banking in the context of Senior Care... Edgar Cahn believed that one of the major failings of many social service organizations was their unwillingness to enroll the help of those people they were trying to help.[8] He called this a deficit based approach to social service, where organizations view the people they were trying to help only in terms of their needs, as opposed to an asset based approach, which focuses on the contributions towards their communities that everyone can make.[9] He theorized that a system like time banking could "[rebuild] the infrastructure of trust and caring that can strengthen families and communities."[7] He hoped that the system "would enable individuals and communities to become more self-sufficient, to insulate themselves from the vagaries of politics and to tap the capacity of individuals who were in effect being relegated to the scrap heap and dismissed as freeloaders." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_banking (more)

Douglas Rushkoff is working on a new NetEffects book which sounds much more embracing of the Internet for SmallWorld. I'm going to start writing--here and elsewhere--about what our New Media does and doesn't do. How it promotes asynchronous communication, letting people get "work" done when they want, rather than at someone else's schedule--loosening the connection between human time and the value of labor. How it gives small producers on the periphery an opportunity to sell and exchange directly with others--rather than through central authorities (Network Economy). How it allows people to relegate the inhuman parts of themselves to the machines, while preserving the human for the real world. How, contrary to most of our experience, it actually gives us the freedom to restore human scale (SmallWorld) in our real lives, while engaging in non-human-scaled activities exclusively through our laptops, on an as-needed basis. It's not too late to shift from an "always on" digital culture to an "always alive" real culture, with occasional, digitally assisted transmissions for non-local and sub-human activities.