Author: danlatorre
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Embrace The Mayoral Shift, The Two Decade Old NYC Tech Boom Has Always Been About Bottom-Up Tech Diffusion & Urbanization
Like the right-wing myth of the broken windows theory, some people who make the FUD-inducing pro-Bloomberg warnings that the NYC tech industry should be wary of not having a cheerleader in mayor-elect de Blasio basically ignore the general social & tech paradigm shifts going on: in this case, since the 1990s, the move to a…
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A Task Large Enough For The Longest Life
Just saw Dave Winer tweet out this…. What do people in Silicon Valley plan to do once they hit 35 and are officially over the hill? http://t.co/xVTNRJ8ngf — Dave Winer (@davewiner) September 23, 2013 I started work on blogging software when I was 38. RSS and podcasting in my 40s. I'm an active developer at…
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Smart Cities Or Wise Cities?
Smart cities, smart politicians, smart leaders, smart writers, smart journalists, smart policy makers, smart planners, smart consultants, smart authors, smart… people. When most people use the word “smart” in civic life they are really saying some person: has technocratic or corporate efficiency, or has skillful rhetoric regardless of logic or ethics, or has an exemplary…
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Sunday Night Poem: The Street by Hellman Pardo
Photo I took of a busy street with speeding traffic and few pedestrian protections, two blocks from where I was born. Carrera 13 y Plaza Lourdes, Chapinero, Bogotá. The Street Without saying anything you speak to me. You say, for example: – I’m made of rock and make men sweat In the days without…
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Living Within The American Lie, On The Passing of Vaclav Havel
“In highly simplified terms, it could be said that the post-totalitarian system has been built on foundations laid by the historical encounter between dictatorship and the consumer society. Is it not true that the far-reaching adaptability to living a lie and the effortless spread of social auto-totality have some connection with the general unwillingness of…
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App Ideas: Public Media Helpers
WeMedia browser extension, user story: I want… a Firefox plugin that detects any NYT (or other MSM) link and upon clicking on it gives you top non-MSM links on the same topic after parsing the HTML. So that people can… get P2P media often with better information & generate less ad revenue for status quo…
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Digital Placemaking at Project for Public Spaces
In the past 14 months at Project for Public Spaces I’ve started up a Digital Placemaking practice, you can read my into post there to find out more on how I’m bringing Cultural Studies, Media Ecology, Open Government, and Agile approaches into Placemaking. We’ve done 5 projects in this time and the value and promise…
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World Charter for the Right to the City
(Liberated into HTML from one of the many PDFs of this document, this text in particular was found at UrbanReinventors.net on October 2, 2011. See wikipedia for more on the idea of the Right to the City. I posted this after mulling over the Declaration of the Occupation of New York City posted by the…
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John Dewey 2.0 – We the P2P Public, Reassembling, Eclipsed No More
John Dewey wrote 2.5 human generations ago (in 1927) about what we now find so valuable in digital peer to peer systems of communication that enable better freedom of Expression, Transparency, and Collaboration. Dewey’s writing was in response to Walter Lippmann who wrote cynically about the “Phantom Public” and in that era of broadcast-top-down-one-way-media on the rise it’s…