Below is all of my content that has been tagged with the term obama. Browsing it should be very exciting for you. Enjoy.
I'm M. Jackson Wilkinson, a technologist, designer, speaker, educator, and writer in San Francisco. I'm the CEO and Founder of WeSprout, which is coming soon. I'm from Philadelphia, went to Bowdoin College in Maine, root for the Phillies, and love to sing.
Data visualization magnate Tufte will be part of an advisory board that oversees Recovery funds and keeps the public informed of how those funds are or aren’t being used.
I’m doing this because I like accountability and transparency, and I believe in public service. And it is the complete opposite of everything else I do. Maybe I’ll learn something. The practical consequence is that I will probably go to Washington several days each month, in addition to whatever homework and phone meetings are necessary.
Good to see that the administration is putting such a high priority in ensuring that this kind of work has some real design thinking behind it.
The government has released the long-expected data.gov catalog of public datasets. Not a ton on there yet, but it’s a good place to watch and a potentially-invaluable resource in the future. I prefer Ali’s conceptual mockups to their design, but with the exception of the overuse of boldface text, it looks decent.
Now if only they’d stop with the use of the word “raw” (in quotes on the site too). It’s all over the place, visually distracting, and annoying. It’s like they wanted to be hip, but some bureaucrat decided it needed to be obviously figurative. Lame.
Yesterday was an amazing day for me and, I believe, for America. Small things first: for the first time in history, the White House has a beautiful website befitting the office of the leader of the free world (unfortunately, it appears to be in ASP).
As a speechwriting junkie, it was great to hear Obama’s first inaugural address. Though it was heavy on the cliché, it was stirringly effective and powerful, and definitely had the literary air I was hoping for from his first address as President, while still being completely accessible to any listener.
“Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends — hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism — these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded then is a return to these truths.”