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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Me in Baltimore (How to do Business Tourism)
I have long been a practitioner of what I call “business tourism”. I love to work, but I also have other passions, like art, poetry, cities, and photography. I have been lucky enough in my technology career to have taken lots of trips to lots of cities for lots of reasons. I disdain daytrips— I…
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Me + Tiananmen Square
Twenty-five years ago, I was obsessed with the events leading to the Tiananmen Square Massacre of June 3 – 4, 1989. From the very first article in the New York Times on April 18 that covered burgeoning unrest, I was mesmerized by what was going on in this opaque place. After the massacre, I was…
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Toward a Muscular Catholicism
Following is the text of remarks I made at the 2014 Gordon Tech Inspiration Celebration.
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Digital Skills + Me (re: Digital Divide Elimination Advisory Committee)
Digital Divide Elimination Advisory Committee Today I chair my first full meeting of then Digital Divide Elimination Advisory Committee which “advises the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity in establishing criteria and procedures for identifying recipients of grants under the Digital Divide Elimination Act“. If you have an interest in these topics topics, consider coming…
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Let’s Build on the CTA’s Open Standards Fare System
Though it seems to have dissipated as people get used to the new system, there has been a lot of sturm und drang about Ventra over last year. Now that the drama is over, it might be time for us in the civic innovation sector of the technology industry to turn our attention to building on…