living off Other Peoples Money (more)

borough of NYC (more)

*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)

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.

Some Richard Florida links: (more)

increase in economic activity (more)

Brain Fart Of The Day: Public Policy Open Charrette

Urban Design model by Richard Florida. (more)

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.

term I use for some of my barely-coherent ideas

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

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.

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

Andrew Montalenti is doing a PyCon session on Rapid WebApp ProtoType building with lightweight tools. Flask/JinJa, BootStrap/JQuery. It combined that with a lightweight database (MongoDb) and a small but production-ready UNIX-based deployment stack (supervisor, UWsgi, NginX). Code is finally pushed to live servers using fabric. Throughout the tutorial, live rapid prototyping tools like IPython Notebook, Code Mirror, and Emmet are used, as well as good old pen-and-paper.