This Week in PopTech: Braddock Revisited, Creative Commons and... We're Hiring
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Friday, July 16, 2010 UTC
Happenings:
- Earlier this week we released a talk by Braddock, Pennsylvania Mayor John Fetterman. In 2009 John shared his ambitious plans to revive Braddock (a town that has lost ninety percent of its buildings and most of its population) using measures that include repurposing abandoned lots and fostering numerous arts and community initiatives.
- To complement our video release, we caught up with John to find out the latest news from Braddock. Postive developments include the building of a brand new mixed use facility, a grant from Department of Labor for a jobs training program and a partnership with the iconic denim company Levis.
- Interactive media artist and 2009 PopTech speaker, Zach Lieberman has been named one of Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business of 2010. Zach’s recent projects include an open-source eye-tracking system that allows disabled artists to draw using their eyes, and a performance that includes drawn sketches that react to a visitor’s touch.
- What we’re reading: How Do You Teach Social Good? by Jennifer Aaker and Andy Smith from GOOD.
- We were excited to find out that the video hosting site Vimeo has added Creative Commons licensing options to the site. We release our talks under an Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license so this announcement is music to our ears.
- We discovered that Maine-based Partners for World Health recovers useful medical supplies that U.S. hospitals must discard due to government regulations, and distributes them to organizations and people around the world who have great need.
- Failure quote of the week: “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” -Winston Churchill
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