“Last night, 64 students barricaded themselves inside the third floor dining room of the Kimmel Center. The occupation was organized by Take Back NYU, an on-campus coalition founded around goals of increasing university transparency and accountability. By bullhorn, the group read a list of 13 demands that must be met by the university before TBNYU leaves the building. Demands include full disclosure of the university’s endowment, investment strategy and operating budget, a reconsideration of the recent lift of the Coca-Cola ban, and tuition stabilization for all students beginning with the class of 2012. “We’re planning on occupying the space till our demands are met,” event spokesperson and CAS sophomore Farah Khimji told WSN last night.”
Month: February 2009
YESTERDAY morning, Virginia politicos caught wind of a rumour that one of the Democrats in the state Senate was about to switch parties. Because the Democrats had a 21-19 majority, that shift would have flipped control over to the Republicans. Then Jeff Frederick, the chairman of the state Republicans picked up his smartphone and sent out a tweet.
“Big news out of Senate: Apparently one dem is either switching or leaving the dem caucus. Negotiations for power sharing underway.”
And that’s how the Democrats found about about the plot. They adjourned business, cornered the rogue senator, and browbeat him out of his big plan.“Be authentic on Twitter,” texted Patrick Ruffini, a Republican web guru. “But still keep a frickin’ secret when you need to.”
NY State Senate is looking for geeks!
The NY State Senate is looking to hiring one drupal ninja, a systems engineer / integrator and graphics designer.
From Andrew Hoppin, the NY State Senate’s new CTO… “The New York State Senate is back in Democratic hands for the first time in 43 years, and there is an immense amount of new technology-driven government transparency & efficiency work underway. I’ve taken on a newly created position as CTO, and we’re hiring asap in Manhattan, Albany, and around the State.”
Specifically on the geek side of things, they are looking for three or four full time people in New York City.
- A Drupal Ninja – this developer knows the LAMP stack backward and forward.
- A systems engineer / integrator – who knows the in’s / out’s of the latest technology and can whip up software as a service (SaaS) systems at the drop of a hat (aka LAMP, Ruby, *NIX, etc.)
- A graphics designer – with experience in “web 2.0” information architecture, PHP, CSS, etc.
If you know of anyone who might be interested, they should contact Andrew Hoppin directly at < nysenatecio_thatatsymbolhere_gmail.com >. Candidates should also include resume / portfolio and salary expectations.
Just the messenger.
tweetcc.com – creative commons for twitter
tweetcc.com just launched allowing any twitter’r to publish their tweets as a creative commons licence. after facebook’s TOS POS, i find this to be super rad!
per my previous post, creative commons is lobbying facebook to adopt progressive, human readable content licensing. don’t forget to tell facebook what you think – Facebook Bill of Rights and Responsibilities.
quirky little article featuring witches, ghosts, a cook and an obama sign. (see lower right corner of photo)
Whether you believe Facebook was acting in their users’ best interest, or if you think the social network’s lawyers were trying to slip something past their community, one thing is clear: the meaning behind the change in Facebook Terms of Service was not explicit to its 175 million users, and they weren’t happy with it. Put simply, Facebook’s Terms of Service were not human readable.
The problem is that Dubai was never hipster-cool and is no longer Wallpaper-cool. This realization will have the same impact as suburbanite bachelorette party in a Wallpaper-cool nightclub. It will spread like the sighting of a floating turd in a public pool, flushing people to the exits with silent panic, unacknowledged for fear of embarrassment.
The battle has begun!
F.A.T. » HACKER WAR – FAT Lab vs. NYC Resistor
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