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End of July ‘10 blogging

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The NECOCANDO folks have issued a report showing that Cleveland is dealing with it’s foreclosure issues

1M projects on github

Jack Ricchuito has a great idea for a restaurant

David Weinberger starts to bend reality back on itself as he updates his blog about Inception. I agree with him - it’s an amazing movie worthy of the tradition that was once based upon quality, intrigue and cinematography.  Only film can tell that story.

Meanwhile….. 7 reasons why Geeks love Inception

I’ve been boning up on RFID

Ask.com goes community

Facebook’s open source infrastructure

Non peer reviewed science!  Heaven forbid!

Clear Channel is making money from giving away mobile apps

Message Companion, Facebook Media page, Google OneBox, Pulse,

3rd week of July ‘10 blogging

Our summer internship program has decided to rename itself.

We’re now known as FYI (”Futuristic Young Ideas”) and we’re:

- producing a book, a DVD and a web site (with a store)

- producing live events and learning what it takes to put on and organize events

- not allowing ANY paper products in our program.  Everything is being done on-line with:

- Gmail

- Google docs

- PBworks

- PeopleAggregator

R buttons and the open marketplace - Listenlog - Emancipay - the Train goes the other way

Harry Pekar - a local hometown hero

Revitalizing the Commons

Tornado now available

More on OpenStack

New models for designing games, products and places = plants

Using consumer identities for business interaction

They should have had a contest and give a reward to the 500,000,000th member

To give you an idea of how things work here in Cleveland, the Dental school at Case’s Medical school is adopting nine families to develop a holistic approach to dental health. Over 35% of families in the area NEVER receive ANY dental care, so Case’s Dental school wants to study the affects of comparing proper dental care to those without.  AWESOME!  Big shoutout to Dean Jerry Goldberg and to Assoc Dean/Head of Research Aaron Weinberg!

I’m speaking at the Northeast Ohio Useability Professional’s Assoc next meeting on Aug. 17th

Recording Industry vs. The People: RIAA paid its lawyers more than $16,000,000 in 2008 to recover only $391,000!!!
“all in all, for a 3 year period, they spent around $64,000,000 in legal and investigative expenses to recover around $1,361,000. Shrewd.”

open data doesn’t empower communities

Alan Kay - User Interface: a personal view

Muriel Cooper R.I.P. - inventing interactive - AIGA bio

OpenLayers 3.0, Northeast Ohio Green Map

New FYI logo

Patrick Loomis is cranking them out.  When I asked him about his other logo he said: “this one is easier to manage”.

Patrick is now going to learn about taking this logo and creating a patch, biz cards, web site banner artwork, an icon, t-shirt and posters.

On a related note another internship program was put on this summer by the CWRU KSL library. It was called the “Future Connections program at University Circle”.

Perhaps next summer we can get this program talking to our program.

New efforts, continued efforts and building momentum

We’ve started a new blog at Case - called CaseStartups.org.  Its part of a ground swell of interest and demands from the student body to start creating new companies, spinoff research projects and JOBS here in Cleveland.

That’s why we’re starting the iDEA Institute - which officially is part of the Case Engineering School - but which will be TOTALLY working with any group of students, faculty or staff - here at Case - and beyond in the surrounding community and NEO region.

In fact we’re already working with GCA (Goldstein, Caldwell and Assoc.) and have helped numerous groups out - in promoting their events.

It will take some time for change to happen - but at least we’re headed in the right direction.

Mid-July blogging ‘10

It’s the one year anniversary of me moving here to NEO - and I can’t tell you how happy I am with that decision.  Well in fact I am telling you - right here - right now.  Our Civic Commons dev efforts are growing, the prototype tool we’re building for the iDEA Institute is humming along and I spend every day teaching 16 STEM high school students how to  use on-line technology to create video and events, produce and organize a book and in general - get severely geeky.

Meanwhile…..

Announcing OpenStack - a way to get out of cloud lock-in

They’re having a rally down in Lafayette, LA against any moratorium on off-shore drilling. They’re quoting 75k jobs and 52% of their local economy - at stake.

Turning the Campus District inside out and the SWAG team

I’m sorry my wife couldn’t be there to enjoy the Malpeque at Sarava’s.

Futuristic Young Ideas logo

Futuristic Young Ideas

Our STEM student high school internship program (formerly know as “YoYOUyouth“) has decided to rename itself.

We’re now: “Futuristic Young Ideas” (FYI):

Here we are outside of the KSL main library at CWRU:

MatchMaker paired donor chain matching software

My best buddy Big Dave Jacob’s company got some great press on his software - MatchMaker.

Check it out:

Beginning of July ‘10 blogging

We has a great 4th and I’ve now started teaching and mentoring a group of STEM high school students in how to utilize on-line tech for jobs, producing events, content and helping out local community groups.  Lots of byproduct from this throughout the summer.

Meanwhile…..

The Guardian has made available a plug in that embeds full text articles into Wordpress blogs.  AWESOME!

The Diaspora kids give a report

On-line browser based outlining - has raised it’s head again - and from who? Marc Barrot - of course!

Cisco sustainable city in Portugal

Slovenefest (Slanina story), PushOvr, AllVoices,

Dancing Tesla Coils

This is from Ian Charnas and a team from CWRU: