This was published in a slightly different form in the Star News last week: My son is in a rap class with a few other five-to-nine year olds. They meet at the Myrtle Grove library once a week to write lyrics around a particular theme, such as vegetables, to perform their raps on a microphone, […]
Just published a piece on our own Cape Fear Roller Girls in Men Ink magazine (online): You’ll think I’m exaggerating if I say that the Cape Fear Roller Girls are my all-time favorite spectator sport, but that’s not a particularly high bar, since I’m not a sports fan. The Roller Girl events at the Schwartz […]
This book Open Government, which publisher O’Reilly released to memorialize hacker Aaron Swartz, is just a fantastic smorgasbord of writing about government and participation and technology, some of it dated or auxiliary but all top notch and thought-provoking. Particularly, so far, Beth Noveck’s chapter on deliberative versus collaborative government. Hope to write more reading notes […]