WUWM: Lake Effect – Interview with “Selma of the North” author Dr. Patrick Jones “Patrick D. Jones is an assistant professor of history in the Institute for Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. His new book is called The Selma of the North: Civil Rights Insurgency in Milwaukee, and it’s published by [...]
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February 27th, 2009
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The Beachwood Reporter: The [Monday] Papers “There’s no business model! No one is making money on the Internet! One of the first things people always ask folks like me or, say, Andrew Huff of Gaper’s Block or Geoff Dougherty of Chi-Town Daily News is, are you making money? And if the answer is, not much, [...]
February 26th, 2009
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@MikeWMiller Don’t eat the fish. GeoCommons – Visual Analytics through Maps “Maker! makes the tough statistical and cartographic decisions for you. Anyone can build complex, data-rich maps. It is as easy as connecting the dots.” (tags: geo mapping web2.0 data) Dataset of the Day: Peanut Butter and Salmonella | Off the Map – Official Blog [...]
February 25th, 2009
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Sunlight Labs: Blog – Open Government Hackathon: Chicago, March 29-31 “Sunlight Labs is proud to be hosting the first ever Open Government Hackathon, March 29-31 in Chicago. “This will be a 48 hour sprint where developers that are interested in contributing to an open source project that will free or otherwise enhance government data can [...]
February 24th, 2009
WNUR Conference of the Birds, 2009-02-24 (Creative Music Studio special)
“Conference of the Birds” is my weekly radio program on WNUR-FM. It airs on Tuesdays from 5-7:30 am Chicago time (UTC-6). And, of course, when technology cooperates, you can just come here for the archives. This week was my segment of WNUR’s annual phoneathon fundraiser. I’m afraid it was not an earth-shattering “take”, and the [...]
February 24th, 2009
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OpenCongress – OpenCongress Blog – New Feature: Inline Commenting for Bill Text “A quick scan through the legislation pending in Congress and things look pretty good. They’re working on fixing the economy, helping people keep their homes, protecting children from online predators, etc. But with every piece of legislation, there is the ideal it represents, [...]
February 23rd, 2009
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I’ll be interviewing Creative Music Studio founder Karl Berger for my special phoneathon edition “Conference of the Birds” on WNUR. Show Us the Data “Is the federal government putting the information you need online? Are there categories of unclassified documents or data that you know exist–on paper or in government computers and databases–that would be [...]
February 22nd, 2009
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Trying to find a information about the choreography to accompany Charles Mingus’ “Black Saint/Sinner Lady” – was it ever performed? filmed? The Uncler w/ Uncle Sam and Alyssa Milano from FOD Team, Alyssa Milano, Seth , and Jake “America is down on it’s luck in this parody of “The Wrestler” with Alyssa Milano.” (tags: funny [...]
February 19th, 2009
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About to start researching next week’s thematic radio show, focusing on the Creative Music Studio – http://creativemusicstudio.org/ Podcast: Longshots #125 – Stu Baker and Claire Stewart – Library Beat “Sarah talks with Stu Baker, acting Associate and University Librarian for Information Technology at Northwestern University Library and Claire Stewart, head of digital collections at the [...]
February 18th, 2009
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The 2009 Statistical Abstract : Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Internet Usage PDFs and Excel: 1107 – Internet Publishing and Broadcasting–Estimated Revenue and Expenses ; 1118 – Household Internet Usage In and Outside of the Home, by Selected Characteristics: 2007 ; 1119 – Household Internet Usage by Type of Internet Connection, and State: 2007 ; [...]