April 2010
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40 Hours in NYC
A lot of walking, very little sleep, and an awesome 2 days. Some highlights:
Going to the Natural History Museum: we walked in, paid for our tickets, and passed by an exhibit titled “Byzantine Art.” I thought it was strange, but we kept walking up the grand staircase where we saw a wing dedicated to 14th-17th century Spanish Art. This sure had a lot of art for a natural history...
March 2010
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Episode 10 of the AshokaTECH Podcast: Founder &...
First of all, a huge thank you to all of our listeners for helping us reach our 10th episode! We’ve now hit double digits, and there’s no looking back! Thanks to all of you for your questions, feedback and for engaging with the podcast. As always if you have comments, questions or suggestions for someone you’d like to see interviewed, be sure to get in touch!
This week’s...
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Facebook, Twitter and Barack Obama: New media and...
Update: I have now posted the entire thesis and created a page for it on here: http://unpoppedcollar.com/thesis But, if you’d like a .pdf copy, feel free to get in touch and I can send one your way. Also, if you have any comments, thoughts, or critiques I would love to hear them. Cheers!
As many of you know I finally finished my master’s thesis last week! Once everything gets...
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Downsizing Detroit →
TIME magazine explores how private foundations are working with Detroit’s city government in innovative ways to bring about change in the dilapidated metro area. This highlights the shifting nature of public-private partnerships and I think foreshadows the future of how government and other entities will interact. As a public policy student, I’m excited to see that working for the...
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A Girl, A Guy and Puke in the Laundry Room
It was such a Larry David moment.
Headed to the small laundry room on my apartment’s floor at 11PM on Tuesday night, I heard some strange noises inside. As I got closer, I slowly pulled back the door and was greeted with a girl all dressed up, her friends beside her, throwing up in the laundry room’s trash can. Pre-gaming gone bad? A pre-Saint Patrick’s night aborted on...
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Unpopped Updates
Finishing the rough draft of my thesis left a bit of time to work on the site, which means some new updates as well as some cool new features courtesy of Tumblr.
1) Most obviously there’s a completely new site redesign. Thanks to LuckyKind for the awesome Tumblr theme which I then tweaked a bit.
2) Along with the new theme is a new logo thanks to Holozo, who took my poorly-formed idea for...
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More Happy Houring
My Roomate: trying to come up with the term 'self fulfilling prophecy' describes it and then asks: "So, what's that called?"
Girl: MANIFEST DESTINY!
Us: ...no...
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Episode 9 of the AshokaTECH Podcast: Interview...
On this week’s episode of the AshokaTECH Podcast, host Alex Budak interviews the co-founder and CEO of Kiva.org Matt Flannery.
Kiva empowers individuals to lend to an entrepreneur across the globe through the internet. By combining microfinance with the internet, Kiva creates a global community of people connected through lending. As of last November, Kiva had facilitated over $100...
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classyfabulous asked: where was the indian restaurant in gtown? i ate at heritage india on wisconsin today and it was excellent!!
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“If what you’re reading isn’t pissing you off everyday then...”
– Tom Foreman of CNN came to my Politics & Media class today to give a guest lecture. In it he talked about the importance of getting news from multiple sources and his worry that people are only consuming news from sources with which they already agree. He is definitely an “old...
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Change.org features the AshokaTECH Podcast →
Thanks to Change.org for letting me write a guest post about the AshokaTECH Podcast! Written on their Social Entrepreneurship blog, I discuss how lessons from Change.org’s use of new web technologies can inspire others at the intersection of technology and social change. Go check it out!
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