{"id":218295,"date":"2009-11-28T13:00:27","date_gmt":"2009-11-28T18:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.seliger.com\/?p=483"},"modified":"2009-11-28T13:00:27","modified_gmt":"2009-11-28T18:00:27","slug":"november-2009-links-governments-foundations-data-broadband-cities-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/218295","title":{"rendered":"November 2009 Links: Governments, Foundations, Data, Broadband, Cities, and More"},"content":{"rendered":"

* US charities expecting lean holiday<\/a>. This makes writing proposals even more important, as Isaac explained way back during 2008 in “Market Tanks, Donors Disappear, Corporate Givers Vanish: Not to Worry, This is a Great Time to Write Proposals<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

* How government policy defeats itself<\/a>, with California as an example. That’s my title for the article, anyway; the NYTimes dubs it, “California\u2019s Zigzag on Welfare Rules Worries Experts.”<\/p>\n

* What’s Wrong With Charitable Giving\u2014and How to Fix It<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* Recession Drives Surge in Youth Runaways<\/a> according to Ian Urbina the New York Times. As Isaac said in a note to Urbina: “I loved the subject article, which reads just like one of our grant proposals . . . lots of anecdotes, a few well chosen, but meaningless, statistics from dubious sources<\/a>, and an entirely specious argument. You would make a great grant writer.”<\/p>\n

The article says things like, “Over the past two years, government officials and experts have seen an increasing number of children leave home for life on the streets, including many under 13.” Compare this to our advice in The Worse it is, the Better it is: Your Grant Story Needs to Get the Money<\/a> and Finding and Using Phantom Data<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(Urbina should’ve referenced Charles Bock’s Beautiful Children<\/em><\/a>, which covers this topic from the perspective of the economic boom times.)<\/p>\n

* America can’t be the world’s tech leader without immigration reforms<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* Another round of broadband stimulus money<\/a> should be coming soon.<\/p>\n

* Why newspapers are important, part 10,122: “Clean Water Laws Are Neglected, at a Cost to Health<\/a>.” Few if any bloggers would go into anywhere near the depth Charles Duhigg does and can.<\/p>\n

* Want 50Mbps Internet in your town? Threaten to roll out your own.<\/a> This is from Ars Technica:<\/p>\n

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ISPs may not act for years on local complaints about slow Internet\u2014but when a town rolls out its own solution, it’s amazing how fast the incumbents can deploy fiber, cut prices, and run to the legislature.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

* The worst kind of good news on AIDS<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* The WSJ predicts “The Next Youth-Magnet Cities<\/a>,” where D.C. ties for first with Seattle. No mention of Tucson on the list.<\/p>\n

* Why are some cities more entrepreneurial than others<\/a>?<\/p>\n

* From the New York Times (and linked to by virtually every blog): Chicago\u2019s [Olympic 2016] Loss: Is Passport Control to Blame?<\/a> The thrust of the answer: at least in part. America’s immigration process is screwed up, and so is its border control, which manages to combine ineffectiveness with invasiveness.<\/p>\n

* The Books of Brin<\/a>\u2014that’s Sergey Brin of Google fame.<\/p>\n

* * Computers are less effective at improving developing world education<\/a> than other, simpler measures, like de-worming.<\/p>\n

* The bookcase staircase<\/a> is very cool.<\/p>\n

* A Brief History of Sex Ed in America<\/a>. Notice how this relates to our post on the<\/a> Community-Based Abstinence Education (CBAE) program.<\/p>\n

* On helping students to finish college in four years<\/a>. Given how few students do finish in four, this is of major consequence for economic health.<\/p>\n

* Japan shows that knowledge is power<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* Those who would sacrifice property rights to development end up with neither<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* 15 Things Worth Knowing About Coffee<\/a>. This comes in visual form.<\/p>\n

* Learn your damn homophones<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* Hard-Hit Factory Towns Slow to See Relief From Stimulus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* Ryan Vent on Libertarians and their “transportation blindspot<\/a>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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