New Year’s resolutions: blog more, etc.

3 January 2012 by sage

I have a few resolutions for this year:

  • Blog more, especially about kid-oriented media and culture. There’s a big lack of free culture when it comes to kids stories and media. I want to try to catalyze some kind of free culture project for an audience of kids.
  • Do better in the Stanford Human-Computer Interaction class than I did in Introduction to Databases last year. (I learned a lot, but didn’t end up finishing because the final was scheduled for right when Everly was born, so I didn’t take it.) These Stanford online classes are awesome.
  • Get involved with local politics. Somebody’s got to do it.
  • Make a functional web app. I’m going to try to learn Python and Django web development by trying to build an open reviews site, where anyone can review anything. In 2012, I want to at least build a very basic site, whether or not it goes somewhere.

Possibly related posts:

  1. The Two Cultures, 50 years later
  2. What will Wikipedia be like 5 years from now?
  3. Wikipedia blog posts I want to write
  4. Britannica Blog asks "Web 2.0: Threat or Menace?"

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  • But when many anecdotes complement each other, and editors pull that out, you get something cool that no current review database can match. - January 28th, 2012 at 8:46 PM
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  • RT@evan Someday knowing the ins and outs of copyright will be like knowing the intricate rules of internal passports in Communist East ... - January 28th, 2012 at 8:10 PM
  • Federation makes a lot of sense... pre-existing communities centered on X (e.g., Android devices) just set up an instance and federate in. - January 28th, 2012 at 8:06 PM
  • Cool! My development skills are minimal, but I'm trying to pick up Django by building a rudimentary review site. - January 28th, 2012 at 8:04 PM
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