• The Air Car Blows Back Into the Picture – Wheels Blog – NYTimes.com –

• Nikon Field Flash Digital Guide photography by Thom Hogan –

• How the West Was Wired –

• The Way We Live Now – 24/7 School Reform – An Analysis – NYTimes.com –

• Op-Ed Columnist – Obama Outwits the Bloviators – Op-Ed – NYTimes.com –

• Intel Moves to Free Gadgets of Their Recharging Cords – NYTimes.com –
• Bill Moyers Journal . Watch & Listen | PBS – Bill Moyers sits down with history and international relations expert and former US Army Colonel Andrew J. Bacevich.

The city’s disastrously low-performing school system was almost entirely washed away in the flood — many of the buildings were destroyed, the school board was taken over and all the teachers were fired. What is being built in its place is an educational landscape unlike any other, a radical experiment in reform. More than half of the city’s public-school students are now being educated in charter schools, publicly financed but privately run, and most of the rest are enrolled in schools run by an unusually decentralized and rapidly changing school district. From across the country, and in increasing numbers, hundreds of ambitious, idealistic young educators like Hardrick and Sanders have descended on New Orleans, determined to take advantage of the opportunity not just to innovate and reinvent but also to prove to the rest of the country that an entire city of children in the demographic generally considered the hardest to educate… can achieve high levels of academic success…

By way of Will Richardson’s FURL feed…

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Last night I attended Berkman special evening event titled “Future of Tagging” with Joshua Schachter, founder of delicious, with David Weinberger, Berkman Fellow, who moderated.  (Schachter also gave a luncheon presentation and you can read Deborah Finn’s notes and David Weinberger’s live blogging of the session.)

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