Tag: United States
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Chicago Way May Come to Have Enlighted Meaning
Image via Wikipedia At the OpenGov Chicago meetings, there is energy and excitement. Carlson, Tolva, and Goldstein have all attended. As a journalist teacher, I find encouragement to get involved with the data. And that’s what I’ll be doing this semester. there’s something new going on in the Windy City that’s worth sharing with the…
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Cyberinfrastructure…
Cyberinfrastructure is the organized aggregate of technologies enabling access and coordination of information technology resources to facilitate science, engineering, and societal goals. Wow, I just discovered that NSF has been thinking about the big picture of how you would use some of the cool commercial apps and the way sites work in many fields. I…
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Journalists from Netherlands Refute Wilders’ Claims
A friend of mine (and a journalist) from Holland sent me this. Echoes of some of the irrational speech that is passing for political talk in the US today. First there is the text of an email from some concerned Dutch journalists that cites facts about Holland and its Muslim population, then the text of…
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Digital Distractions not Novel, Remember Ahab?
Image via Wikipedia I feel like saying “what she said” to this short piece from the NYTimes Magazine by Virginia Heffernan. Her point is that there is nothing new about being so into one idea, game, book, or anything, that you igore everything else. Think Ahab’s unhealthy obsession with Moby Dick, or revisit Tom Sawyer…
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Danilel X. O’Neil’s Primer on City of Chicago Contracting: Derivative Works (DXO)
Forget the foolish focus on “who” will be the new “Mayor Daley.” This focus on the what that goes on with each action and contract cuts to heart of the City’s problems. The wink and then the no bid contract to the friend, political ally, or somebody’s relative. It is not nickle and dime’ing us,…
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The 10 Major Newspapers That Will Either Fold or Go Digital Next – TIME
24/7 Wall St. has created a list of the 10 major daily papers that are most likely to fold or shutter their print operations and only publish online. The properties were chosen on the basis of the financial strength of their parent companies, the amount of direct competition they face in their markets and industry…
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Value of "In Sickness and In Health" Not High On McCain’s Personal List
The Daily Mail does a detailed series of interviews with McCain associates and friends about McCain’s first wife, Cindy, who was injured in a car crash which changed her appearance, and seems to have led to their divorce. I was surprised to see that Nancy Regan was surprised by the divorce. If you can’t stand…
Barbara K Iverson 