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Girls, Chess & Opportunity

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Today I was told that the second chess class I will be teaching at Perkins has only two girls signed up, my daughter and promissing classmate of her’s in a chess class of 10 to 12 students . The first session was similar this Fall with a 4 to 1 ratio of boys to girls. [...]

Student …. :Google Search Type Ahead = 70% Debt

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

the screen shot says it all:

Top student searches top 10 include Loan, loan consolidation, loan forgiveness, credit cards, loans with cosigner, studentloan.com, loan calculator… Only thing missing from the list is Usury.

Teaching @ UW’s iSchool & Student Blog

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

I am currently half way through my first quarter teaching at the University of Washington’s Information School. This has been a great experience thus far. We have covered topics as diverse as John Rawls’ Theory of Justice, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Bilski, software patents, the Access to Justice Technology Principles and disability rights [...]

Filtering v. Information Overload (w/ Privacy Sprinkles)- Shirky

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Great talk, information overload is often related to an inability to filter what comes in. For the longest time had a love/hated relationship BoingBoing, this changed when I learned to filter for Cory and Xeni, and wait for my friends to share other worthy posts. With other blogs I often look for someone like Kevin [...]

TEDx Seattle Discussion

Monday, February 1st, 2010

For people wanting to learn more about TEDx Seattle. This Friday there is a Happy Hour and TEDxSeattle Discussion at the Rat and Raven.
Here is the announcement from the Master of Communication in Digital Media list:
This Friday, in addition to our usual socializing and networking at our First Fridays Happy Hour, we will be having [...]

TEDx Seattle Scoop

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

TEDx Seattle is happening at the Pacific Science Center on April 10th. The event is being TEDx Seattle is organized by the Master of Communication in Digital Media (MCDM) program at the University of Washington. One of the most exciting parts of TEDx Seattle is that they are strongly considering creating an interactive website for [...]

The United States of Corporations

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

The Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. FEC offends me (I know this is not a lawyerly thing to say, but this turns my stomach) as it allows corporations to pour large amounts of money into elections by equating corporate spending to free speech. The best response I have seen is bellow form [...]

Google Public Policy Fellowship Apps Open

Monday, December 14th, 2009

The Google Policy Fellowship applications are now open. I highly recommend applying if you are interested in policy work. Working at Public Knowledge last summer was amazing. I was able to get first hand experience with the FCC, the Copyright Office and some amazing nonprofits in the DC area like KEI and EPIC.
This years sponsoring [...]

Devdutt Pattanaik TED Talk, Amazing!

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

Amazing TED talk on mythology, liner time and cyclical time, binary logic and fuzzy logic. This talk covers a lot of why I am so attached to Rashomon and mythology!

I will need to re-watch it a few times to see if it holds up over time but my first impression is that this could [...]

Event: Disability in the Developing World’ Speaker: Joyojeet Pal

Monday, November 30th, 2009

I am headed over to UW at noon for talk that looks very interesting:
Research Conversation: ‘Technology and Disability in the Developing World’ Speaker: Joyojeet Pal
JOYOJEET PAL is an NSF Computing Innovation fellow at the ATLAS institute at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His work primarily looks at issues around technology and development. He is [...]