Personal posts
Posts on architecture, obsessions, photography, poems, visits to art exhibits, essays, family, and or things about me organized under art, home, and work.
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Preparatory Thoughts for “What are the Rules? Digital Media and Citizen Action in #Ferguson”, Tonight with the Illinois Humanities Council
Tonight I’m joining a discussion hosted by the Illinois Humanities Council. Here’s the framing: Not long after protests over the shooting of Michael Brown began in Ferguson, MO, online hacktivist collective Anonymous took up the cause. Though its tactics have been polarizing – one member publicly, incorrectly identified the shooter – the group has undeniably…
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Me + CTA Consumer-Focused Technology
I did a presentation to the CTA tech team last week. It’s a personal story about my decade + in working with transit-related communications technology, but it ends up telling the story of an official agency (inside) eclipsing the cool-kid system (outside) again and again and again. All hail Kevin O’Neil, Harper Reed, and Tony Coppoletta!
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Remembering the B-Thing in Light of White Flag Brooklyn Bridge Confession
Now comes the New York Times, with word that it was German artists who removed American flags from the Brooklyn Bridge and replaced them with hand-women white ones. But the artists, Mischa Leinkauf and Matthias Wermke, say the flags — with hand-stitched stars and stripes, all white — had nothing to do with terrorism. In…
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Cool story
Capitalizing on U.S. Bombing, Kurds Retake Iraqi Towns Pesh merga forces retook Gwer around midday, pushing through the center and methodically searching for snipers, stragglers and booby traps that ISIS might have left behind. The main threat turned out to be north of the town. In three spots a mile apart, ISIS had concealed trucks…
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Bulk Downloads of FCC Comments on FCC Filing 14-28, Protecting and Promoting the Open Internet
tl; dr: below is a bulk download of all Net Neutrality comments published to the FCC’s Electronic Comment Filing System as single file, along with the complete text of those comments. There are 475,280 comments available as of August 4, 2014. More comments are being published and will be available here as time goes by.