thesethings (andy) // @thesethings
portland, oregon
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Had to share this. Hermeto Swang from the new White Rainbow mixtape, From Now On Let's.
Give it 'til :37. Then you can click what you need to click. :D
You can download the whole mixtape from the generous + prolific White Rainbow who's letting us name our own price.
From the Pulitzer rule changes announcement:
entries may use any available journalistic tool, including text reporting, videos, databases, multimedia or interactive presentations or any combination of those formats.
Especially cool about the databases part. (We know what they meant :D.)
It's been over five years since Adrian Holovaty's awesome chicagocrime.org. Since then, everyblock.com happened, (not to mention a straight up competitive rivalry among city mayors to open/ make available more civic data.)
Sidebar: was just having a conversation about programming not being an occupational specialty, but increasingly part of general literacy. Like say, for journalists.
(Photo by Stephanie Yao for Oregonian blog post by @rogoway about Portland, Oregon PDX11 software summit to grow local software economy. Further reading at Tending the Garden by @selenamarie.)
Something about this picture appealed to the Internet romantic in me. How audience, press, government, and stakeholder are indistinguishable.
Something something World is Flat.
