I commend you all for your engagement activity because that’s how I see it is. We might be doling out some information or data to you but it’s your engagement with challenges, with opportunities that you might see. That really is where we are trying to move the city more towards. Otto Doll, Minneapolis CIO, …
Month: August 2013
rasdivine: yannickbrouwer: This little company from Kenya makes toys from slippers that wash up on the beach. Pictures by Ben Curtis Dope
Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? – Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic – Harvard Business Review
Interesting. What do you think?Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? - Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic - Harvard Business Review
stoweboyd: susanmernit: The partner of the Guardian journalist who has written a series of stories revealing mass surveillance programmes by the US National Security Agency was held for almost nine hours on Sunday by UK authorities as he passed through London’s Heathrow airport on his way home to Rio de Janeiro. David Miranda, who lives …
natgeofound: To entertain the men, Captain Robert Scott took a gramophone on his South Pole Expedition. Chris, one of his dogs, was apparently also a fan, September 1911.Photograph by Herbert G. Ponting, National Geographic Pre-Sirius travel.
nevver: Jonathan Fields
What people who do write do understand
stoweboyd: Liz Danzico: Woody Allen recently: What people who don’t write don’t understand is that they think you make up the line consciously — but you don’t. It proceeds from your unconscious. So it’s the same surprise to you when it emerges as it is to the audience when the comic says it. I don’t …
sunlightcities: MuckRock has a great investigation into the response time on FOI requests. Read the full article here
You just gotta do what you wanna do and do it good. wise words from David Brent Keuning. (via takemeoverthisspell) Your words of wisdom for the week. 🙂
People say you can lie with data, but you can lie a whole hell of a lot easier without it. @crojasic Want to arm yourself with some urbanism facts? Then check out #citydata, our ongoing tumblr series. (via thisbigcity) 🙂