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» Stickers replace tweets - "Low-Tech Project Inspires Community Engagement" -from GOOD

Candy Chang’s “I wish this Was” project offers the public a voice in what the community (particularly NOLA) needs are by providing blank stickers for said needs to be written and then stuck in the area in which the needs apply.  Additionally, on her personal site, Candy Chang adds that they are “also developing a digital version called Neighborland that will help residents and community leaders self-organize around shared goals, whether that be the desire for a local grocery store, bike lanes, more trees, less blight, a cafe with WiFi, a taco stand, a recreation center, and beyond. Here’s to better tools for residents to shape the physical and commercial development of their neighborhoods!”

Source: Forget Twitter, Try Stickers: Low-Tech Project Inspires Community Engagement in New Orleans (www.good.is);  http://candychang.com/i-wish-this-was/www.good.is);  http://candychang.com/i-wish-this-was/

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» Venture Capital Spirit Boosts New Orleans After Katrina - Business News - Portfolio.com

Another great article/feature story on an amazing entrepreneur & New Orleanian: Chris Schultz! Chris is a great example of ‘being the change’ we need in the world, we hope you think so to after reading this Portfolio article…

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“ Good news Nawlins: “Officials say Crawfish won’t be impacted by oil leak „
 via @nolacitybusiness

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» Postmedium

Most artists are without the time, money, knowledge or resources to establish an effective online web presence.

Postmedium is a portfolio management system through which artists can update their online portfolios, add new content and images, and take control of their online presence.

Along with this system, we provide custom designed artist portfolios with support and hosting, all on an affordable budget.

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» Investigating New Orleans...take a peek through 'The Lens'

Investigating New Orleans and the Gulf Coast is the motto of The Lens, an online hub of just that. The lens seeks to inform and invoke action in us all (not just natives mind you) to change and repair the city of New Orleans (and the region) so that it may have the same opportunities afforded to us all as citizens of the U S of A!

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Critique the site and content using our comments feature for a chance to win our monthly mound drawing!

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» invadeNOLA's recent project inspires as much as it promotes...

Kickstarter - InvadeNOLA Volume 2 - Great video to encourage inspiration & innovation among the cultural arts. Not sure if its enough for me to open my wallet and dish out cash, but a great advertisement nonetheless. Bravo, and if you have the funds to help, we encourage it of course.

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Hi-yah! Productions presents interactive puppet show: “FANTASTIC MISTER FOX” - opens March 12th and is the coolest thing a kid or adult will do in the year 2010.

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Here’s an intro into the Google Fiber initiative… visit the New Orleans Fiber team at nolafiber.com

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Q: What’s the biggest mental hospital facility in Orleans Parish?

A: The prison

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09/05/2009

“ Our newspaper has the highest readership rate in the country, and yet with 1200 people marching down the street rallying for a cause doesn’t warrant a piece in the newspaper? „
Anonymous

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4 years since Hurricane Katrina, but still no ‘pot to pee in’

14,000 New Orleanians = # of families STILL seeking housing assistance since Hurricane Katrina.

Source: StBernardProject.org - 12 weeks, construct houses ($15,000 cost to build each)

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» Signs your Mayor Might be a Pyschopath - Nawlins Nagin


WDSU reporter Heath Allen caught the mayor on his way into the office this morning and asked him if his computers were seized. Nagin’s comments were short, staccato, and pregnant with delight.

HEATH: Have the federal authorities taken your laptops, computers, anything from your office? Has anything like that happened along those lines?

NAGIN: NOPE! Nothing…(grins)

HEATH: Are you willing to cooperate with the federal authorities if it comes to that?

NAGIN: I’ve always cooperated but I’m not part of any investigation…(smug raised eyebrows smiling) that I know of.

Nagin says at this point he’ll concentrate on running the city (oh, don’t bother getting up for me now) and let the other process run its course. Then he adds for good measure,

“These emails seem to have generated a LOT OF attention. And we’ll just get em out there and let the public decide what’s best.”

Watching yet another episode of Nagin jiving and profiling in the face of self-inflicted scandal, I’m reminded of the meeting in the city council chambers last month when he decided to suspend the professional services panel and choose all the city contractors himself and that woman from the Lower Nine Vanessa Gueringer went to the mic and called him “a psychopath” to his face. READ MORE….

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