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Talk about money changed in 2013

12/31/2013

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Significant changes in the sonic landscape of money talk in 2013 have gone without much comment during this, the season when year-in-review pieces take up space usually reserved for news or, at least, fresh commentary.

Public radio gave us some of the best work all year.  NPR's Planet Money team produced an ambitious bit of original enterprise reporting on their own Planet Money T-shirt. It is a remarkable piece of journalism. Funded through a Kickstarter campaign, the series followed the process of making of an ordinary piece of clothing around the world a couple of times before the used Ts end up sold in bulk in the global rag trade.  Fabulous storytelling, rich detail and surprising economic lessons - even and especially through the false starts.


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Tribute reproduction of It's a Wonderful Life: Seattle Radio Theatre

12/24/2013

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Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?
                                                                                         - Clarence

Using an original Lux Radio Theatre script, Seattle Radio Theatre took to the air for a live broadcast of Its a Wonderful Life.  John Curley got in touch with his inner Jimmy Stewart in reprising the role of George Bailey, leading a cast recruited mostly from  KIRO-FM who recreated the Christmas favorite  in front of a live audience.


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Last minute Christmas gift: Free eBook about the generation that changed everything

12/23/2013

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The kid on the cover looks like he has just seen a new bike under the Christmas tree.  In fact, that kid turned 65 this year, as did many first wave Baby Boomers.  Demographers say that by 2030, one in five Americans will be over the age of 65. 

The Governing eBook, Governing Generations: An Earth Shattering Ka-Boom tells the story of baby boomers aging in place and what that means for states and localities. The eBook captures Governing's original reporting this year on the ways in which our aging population will change our communities and our country.

And it is available fast and free for the eReader user on your list.  Available for no-hassle download through
Governing books.

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What would Father Guido Sarducci say about the year in tech?

12/1/2013

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The old Saturday Night Sketch about Father Guido Sarducci's 5-minute University had a brilliant (and funny) conceit - in five minutes you can learn everything you are going to remember five years hence.

For a dozen years, the sketch has inspired my 500 word roundup of the tech related developments in the 12 months just past that will still matter five years from now.

My batting average has not been half bad over the years.  And I tempted fate one more time this month in Government Technology.  

Let me know what I missed.

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