Video Highlights from the best freaking conference ever: TransparencyCamp '12
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May 1 / 7:19am
Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem. - The Washington Post
If our democracy is to regain its health and vitality, the culture and ideological center of the Republican Party must change.via washingtonpost.com
Apr 28 / 2:32pm
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Mar 22 / 11:44am
Wonderful life lessons from a developer turning 40.
Matt will cover a bunch of lessons he’s learned in the past decade of life as he embarks on turning 40. They eschew much of the Techcrunch/ReadWriteWeb/Mashable world by focusing on taking a longer term view of your work and focusing on life/work balance and having a happy life as well as a fulfilling career.
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Mar 12 / 12:17pm
Former Fed CIO Vivek Kundra presses for social government
Cloud is an old, tired debate. It's sort of done. Everyone's moving in that direction. It's a one-way street. The more interesting question is: So now you've abstracted your core infrastructure -- let's say you're in the cloud -- what is the real transformation point? It's not technology for technology's sake. And that's where the social revolution comes in.
via nextgov.com
Mar 8 / 2:31pm
Code for America's Jennifer Pahlka at TED.
It’s easy to get lost in particulars of CfA’s work: the apps, the code, etc. But at TED last month, our founder Jennifer Pahlka reminds us that it’s about much more than that, it’s about citizenship and how the internet is fundamentally reshaping the way government can work. As promised, here’s the video:
Mar 7 / 4:23pm
Entire nation of Kiribati to be relocated over rising sea level threat - Telegraph
In what could be the world's first climate-induced migration of modern times, Anote Tong, the Kiribati president, said he was in talks with Fiji's military government to buy up to 5,000 acres of freehold land on which his countrymen could be housed.
via telegraph.co.uk
Mar 7 / 1:26pm
Why (Twitter) Bootstrap might be *very* important
This is a well-known technical process called factoring. If you see yourself doing something over and over, do it one more time, really well, and work on the API so it's really easy and flexible, and that's it. You never do it again. It's how you build ever-taller buildings out of software.The same patterns are observable in the web. In fact, it's kind of sad how much of a repeat it is, how backward today's development environment is compared to the one envisioned by the Mac. But at least Bootstrap is out there doing the factoring. If I want to put up a menu, I can just use their code that does menus. Sure, my menu looks like all the others, and that's a good thing, for users. No need to learn a second or third way to use a menu.
via scripting.com
