living off Other Peoples Money (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)

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.

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

term I use for some of my barely-coherent ideas

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)

increase in economic activity (more)

Urban Design model by Richard Florida. (more)

Some Richard Florida links: (more)

Brain Fart Of The Day: Public Policy Open Charrette

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.

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

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

My current tools/habits: (more)

for Fractally Generative Pattern Language (more)

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.

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)