Honored for our @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social mapping team to have received a Civic Innovator award tonight from @beta.nyc. Beta NYC has been leading and defining civic innovation for years, so the award means a lot.

Lesson in resilience: Today I saw a spider smacking a yellow jacket that was trying to steal a lantern fly carcass from the web. Ultimately the spider retreated to the corner. We thought it was over but later found that the spider maneuvered the lantern fly closer to the corner. No sign of the wasp.

Spend a good chunk of today transplanting some overgrown hydroponic tomatoes and peppers to an outdoor container. Felt really proud then saw the severe thunderstorm notice. There could be hail and 60mph gusts. At least they are somewhat protected behind the balcony. Also Manhattan just disappeared.

Freudian slip of the day:

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Rainbow over Crown Heights

I missed my stop after teaching a night class tonight and had to walk a few blocks along the tree lined island on Eastern Parkway. As I walked along admiring the budding honey locust branches against the night sky, I noticed dozens of new trees where there used to be empty pits. Made me happy.

World IA Day NYC is online this Sat, March 8 @ 9-4.

RSVP at: www.worldiaday.org/events/new-y...

There will be prizes…but mainly talks about Transformation in this new world of Information Architecture, because this year’ theme is the Challenge of Change.

See you there?

Early bird pricing for IAC25 in Philly ends soon. I’m going. Will I see you there?

We should make a new website. For every web page that is deleted or changed we should be posting links to the wayback machine version.

Datasets are being deleted.
www.404media.co/archivists-w...

The digital infrastructure of the United States Government is both critical and fragile. Many of us who work in digital government have been trying to figure out what’s going on as norms and protocols are being subverted — Thread on some of what we know so far:

I'm not ready for this

Took my CUNY students to see the eclipse. We made camera obscuras to project the moon on the wall, then went to the Adams Street median to look at tree shadows. Some nice NYU students lent us their glasses. At the half way point a woman rode by in a bike passing out a bunch of glasses. #eclipse2024

World IA Day NYC 2024 is now taking registrations! Visit worldiaday.org/events/new-y... to see the program and join us on Saturday, March 2!

Thanks to sponsors (so far), O’Reilly Media and Citation Labs! If you’d like to sponsor visit our Open Collective page: opencollective.com/world-ia-day...

Our next free event...10 days!

Looking Ahead: A Manifesto for Applying Behavioral Science with Scott Young, Wed, Sep 20, 6PM at Borough of Manhattan Community College.
www.meetup.com/Behavioral-E...

We plan to livestream over Zoom. It will be interesting, perhaps controversial, and definitely fun!