Murph posted his saga with his Ann Arbor landord. Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4
If you have questions about your landlord, the MichiganTenants.org web site has a lot of good information. If you’re not a University of Michigan student and a Washtenaw County resident, they can provide assistance over […]
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.
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 […]
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.
The O’Reilly Radar links to the Social Explorer site, which offers an easy to use, web-based GIS (”mapping”) application for exploring US census data. Having briefly played with ArcGIS, a fancy and expensive GIS package, Social Explorer is a very exciting tool. It’s much more limited, but also much easier to use than […]
I asked George if he wanted to go to the Grassroots Use of Technology Conference and he replied, “I’m not really an activist.” Not only is George an activist, he’s a community organizer. In the same way that new technologies are making media more participatory, they have the potential to make organizing and […]
Infamous G.E. CEO Jack Welch once said, “Ideally you would have every plant you own on a barge.” The idea being you could move your factory to whichever totalitarian dictatorship had the lowest taxes, fewest worker & environmental protections, and most desperate population.
It seems that some San Diego entrepeneurs are attempting to realize a […]
