Archive for May, 2005

Better than Pranks

Monday, May 2nd, 2005

Pranks with a Purpose:
In Los Angeles, Heavy Trash, a coalition of anonymous architects, designers and urban planners, have erected orange viewing platforms outside the gates of three upscale LA neighborhoods to protest what they see as a disturbing proliferation of gated communities.
via WorldChanging.

“Content Management” Software Sucks

Monday, May 2nd, 2005

Jeffery Veen writes about his recent experience evaluating free content management systems over at (the very useful) OpenSourceCMS.com. He concludes:
The experience cemented a theory of mine: Most open source content management software is useless. The only thing worse is every commercial CMS I’ve used. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
While I […]

The Creative (and Green) Class

Monday, May 2nd, 2005

Richard Florida has been getting a lot of play around these parts since his ideas inspired the Governor’s Cool Cities campaign, attempting to cater to Florida’s “creative class.” Over at WorldChanging, Jaimais writes about the Greening of the Creative Class. He notes the significant overlap between Florida’s “Creative Index” cities and cities on […]

GIS for the Masses, Part II

Monday, May 2nd, 2005

Some nonprofits offer localized versions of the SocialExplorer tool I linked to earlier. The New York PIRG offers CMAP and UCLA offers Neighborhood Knowledge California. NKCA, in particular, has a really nice interface.

More Pranks, Please

Monday, May 2nd, 2005

Erica writes about a prank today at Cornell. Someone put a disco ball on McGraw tower. Cornell, like other schools, has a long history of campus pranks. Umich doesn’t seem to have this kind of tradition.

Happy May Day

Sunday, May 1st, 2005

mousemusings links to an article that reminds us that May 1st is the real labor holiday. Map Room systems also writes about May Day today, with a little dose of history and some local tie-ins.