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Shareable Chicago

A world-class city boasting outsized political and economic influence, a vibrant tech community, and an intense commitment to civic participation, Chicago points the way to the peer-to-peer cities of tomorrow. Shareable Chicago is my week-long series exploring the city's burgeoning … Continue reading

Radio Free Ruin #1: We’re an American Band (2012) with Cooper McBean

Cooper McBean of the Devil Makes Three joins us to talk about tech and the Internet have transformed the life of an independent professional musician. Continue reading

A Voice For The Rest of Us: Why Occupy Wall Street Matters

There are a number of good critiques of the establishment left’s responses to Occupy Wall Street, most pointedly and effectively being this one from Glenn Greenwald, but I’ve been surprised to note that some of the activists in my timelines … Continue reading

The Toll of the Texas Drought

At this point, the current drought is the third worst on record based on the Palmer Drought Index, behind the droughts of 1916-1918 and 1951-1957. The Texas drought map is a sea of red, with almost the entire state in … Continue reading

Is Greater Than Digital Omnibus 2010

At long last, the Is Greater Than eBook collection finally sees the light of day. I've been working on this since the second day I owned my iPad, but was stalled by a number of annoyances in eBook-land. I had … Continue reading

LOST

I'll be live-chatting about the most important news item of the week (the LOST finale) on Wednesday, May 19 at 12 noon (central) on WBEZ/Chicago Public Radio's Vocalo blog. Follow the chat and add your own comments here.

Video of "This One's A Classic" for 2nd Story at Morseland, 4/28/10

Last night I performed a new short story, "This One's A Classic", for 2nd Story at Morseland in Rogers Park, with musical accompaniment by Elvis Bride. A hilarious tale of personal failure, about the ill-fated Mule Train Pacific Northwest tour … Continue reading

"This One's A Classic", a new story for 2nd Story

I'm performing a brand-new short story for 2nd Story this Wednesday, April 28, at the Morseland. It is about the ill-fated Mule Train Pacific Northwest tour of 2005, which ended in a Wal-Mart parking-lot in Yreka, CA. Here's a teaser … Continue reading

Now Contributing to Shareable.net

I'm writing articles and also blogging for Shareable.net, a "nonprofit online magazine that tells the story of sharing. We cover the people, places, and projects that are bringing a shareable world to life," as they describe it. I'm very broadly … Continue reading

New 2nd Story Performance: April 28 at the Morseland

I'll be performing a new short nonfiction story for 2nd Story at the Morseland in Rogers Park, about getting stranded in the Wal-Mart parking lot of a small mountain town. There's a running theme for the evening, which will also … Continue reading

Shareable Chicago: DataKind's Vision of a Data-Driven Social Change Movement
The Chicago DataDive connected social organizations and geeks to build a civic data community to create lasting social change.
Greenplum: From Disruption to Insight at the Data Science Summit 2012
2012 is proving to be the year of Big Data, demanding the attention of executives, thought leaders, academics, and tech journalists alike. But this influx of data is only valuable through dedicated and specialized analysis
Greenplum/Code For America: The Federated Corporation
Recap of Wiki inventor Ward Cunningham's Big Data for the Public Good talk.
SF Weekly: Civil Wrongs Revisited
Remembering Bayard Rustin, the fervid orator who served as a key figure in the civil rights movement for more than 60 years.
Shareable: Almere Oosterwold, a Vision of Collaborative DIY Urban Design
Dutch architecture company MVRDV is betting urban design can go DIY with its the principle of "do-it-yourself urbanism."

Paul M. Davis

Technology, social justice and the independent arts. Austin via Chicago via Santa Cruz.

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