Category Archives: Los Angeles

Opportunity Gap: Does it Exist in Schools Near You?

Tweet Pro Publica has published a database that makes it easy for you to compare your access to quality education and at what cost in an effort to provide insight into the opportunity gap demonstrated by economic difference in the … Continue reading

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Crowdsourced Mobile App Waze, ABC7 to Help Angelenos Beat Carmageddon

TweetCrowdsourced social mobile traffic app Waze‘s partnership with KABC-TV hit the wires this morning (press release below / Techmeme link). Here’s the story and video from ABC7. WSJ, NYT, Reuters, and Fast Company are already on it. Video and press assets can be found here. Some other goodies: * Carmageddon promo * Carmageddon … Continue reading

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Once-Mighty Myspace Acquired for Measly $35 Million

Personally, I’ve had a Myspace profile seemingly forever, having joined at some point in 2004, having sensed early tremors of the first tectonic shift in social networking — the great exodus from Friendster to MySpace. I never used it much socially, especially after the great fake pornorific inbox spammings of 2006… I had already begun using Facebook at the time, gaining early-ish entry while a grad student. Continue reading

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My Morning Jacket Rocks The Village to Benefit KCRW

TweetA few hundred KCRW members were lucky enough to see one of today’s finest live-performing bands in a rare intimate performance at The Village studios in West L.A. Tuesday night.

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Flaming Lips at Hollywood Forever Cemetery

TweetMy best photos from the Flaming Lips concerts at Hollywood Forever Cemetery on June 14th and 15th 2011. Click on images to view as larger slideshow.

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Namesake.com Invites You to Talk About Your Passions

Tweet With Twitter becoming more and more of an echo chamber and LinkedIn lacking in conversation what it offers as a networking tool, it can be difficult to find a place on the web to provoke frank conversation, receive honest … Continue reading

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