Marc's Voice

3rd week of Dec 2013 blogging

I got a mention in an Om Malik post – thanks Om!

If you wanna know what to buy me for a birthday present – Damian Marley’s Reggae Cruise Sells Out in Less Than a Month…

Great overview on the current State of the Decentralized web.  Doesn’t mention the IIW, Status.net, Kynetx, the VRM project or the Indie Web – but something is better than nothing!

Can’t hide from the truth – only 4% complete MOOCs

Two people I highly respect: Doc Searls and Phil Windley are both pointing to Fred Wilson’s speech at LeWeb about: the transition of hierarchies to networks.  Though I can agree with much that Fred says, there’s also the human element.  Fred has the right to be a VC, befriend reprehensible people, but also be a leader and do lots of coolio things – as well.  I guess the underlying assumption is that none of this theory stuff is perfect.

the Fashion 360Net keeps rolling along – Building a Bridge Between Fashion & Technology – Congrats to Anina et al

7 ‘digital nomads’ explain how they live, work and travel anywhere in the world

Keith Teare on “the Startup Valley of Death”

I’m totally into this Digital City Exchange program coming out of the Imperial College, London.  I totally want to talk to Prof. David Gann!

Telefonica starts digital city project in Aguas de Sao Pedro

Yeoman (a scaffolding framework for UIs) generator for Drupal  totally what my wife needs to hear – right now

Join Us In Building the Sharing Cities Network

The Intersection of on-line and the real-world – continues

Not sure if every City needs it’s open Open Data Open Standard – but I guess its a good thing that SF has one – of its own.

API management —Any way you want it!

Something which seems really obvious to me – home broadband via LTE

Our eldest daughter spent an hour learning visual programming and while loops. Now the question is: “was that enough to get her to actually learn how to code?”