February 2012
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“More than half the workers of the world do business in the informal, or shadow,...”
– Robert Neuwirth (PopTech 2011, 2005) Shadow Goods, Makeshift: The Mobility Issue
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Poetry of Code Meets Code of Poetry →
futurejournalismproject:
Via Wired:
Artist and engineer Ishac Bertran has launched a project that invites people to submit poetry written in any coding language. These code poems will be considered for publication in a book.
A code poem is simply a poem written in any programming language including C++, HTML, C#, SQL, Objective C, Applescript and Java. Bertran had the idea when he was...
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WatchWith your help, Ze Frank (PopTech 2004, 2005) is bringing back “The Show.”
In 2006, I launched a show called “The Show With Ze Frank.” It was one of the most strange, exciting, difficult, and amazing things I have done so far. I think it is time to do something similar, what with the economy in the crapper and the election coming up. If Newt can do it, so can I. So can...
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Knight News Challenge on Networks opens: Your shot...
newschallenge:
Today, and for the following 19 days, the Knight News Challenge is open for business. The theme of the challenge is Networks.
The most common question I’ve been asked since we announced the challenge is exactly what we mean by Networks. We’re trying not to define the term too narrowly, but I thought a look at David Sarnoff, the creator of the broadcast network in the U.S.,...
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“Well, I’ve been eating for 57 years now, with great gusto, I might add. And I’ve...”
– Michael Pollan (PopTech 2009) on how much of his life he’s spent reading, thinking and writing about food. And more.
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Rise of the Hacktivist →
(Via 2logix)
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WatchLowLine: An Underground Park on NYC’s Lower East Side on Kickstarter
What is the LowLine?
We want to transform transform an abandoned trolley terminal on the Lower East Side of Manhattan into the world’s first underground park. It will be a new kind of public space, using solar technology for natural illumination, and cutting edge design to capture and highlight a very special...
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Get Resilient →
Get Resilient is a web-magazine dedicated to articles on the concept of resilience. It shares insights and ideas that have the potential to change the way we live and create a world that is responsive to shock and is able to rebuild and transform.
The world is facing some great challenges. Climate change, peak oil, food security, biodiversity loss, economic instability and social unrest are all...
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What makes the strongest Social Innovation Fellow... →
Nominations for the PopTech Social Innovation Fellows program opened earlier this month. Whether you’re nominating yourself or someone else, how can you best make the case? Based on past years’ most compelling nominations, here are some helpful tips:
Give specific examples of the nominee’s leadership and collaborative success.
Describe clearly the central innovation and how it has begun to prove...
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Urgent tweet in Kenya village: Help, sheep missing →
When the administrative chief of this western Kenyan village received an urgent 4 a.m. call that thieves were invading a school teacher’s home, he sent a message on Twitter. Within minutes residents in this village of stone houses gathered outside the home, and the thugs fled.
“My wife and I were terrified,” said teacher Michael Kimotho. “But the alarm raised by the chief...
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Is it possible to green the Gras? →
Some green-thinking locals want New Orleans to recycle the tons of plastic necklaces that go flying during parades. But skeptics say it’ll never happen.
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“‘…we’re doing extensive ADA compliance research. It’s...”
– 2012 PopTech Social Innovation Fellow Michael Murphy on architecting health
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