PSL ListServ Streamgraph

Has the PSL ListServ lost it's mojo? Short answer, no. But take a look at the streamgraph below to see the ebb and flow of various words used by the community. It seems that the amount of times the word "help" is being used has significantly increased relative to other categories this past month. This means people are using the word "help" in one of two different situations: one where people are asking for help, the other for giving help. Without going into each email containing the word help and highlighting each sentence, it's difficult to know whether asks or gives are occurring.

This streamgraph was built using processing and adobe illustrator.

RSA Animate - The Power of Outrospection

A great visualization of a talk about the power of outrospection and the role of empathy in figuring out who we are in order to live the eudomonic life. The speaker, philosopher Roman Krznaric, argues that the main tool for the twenty-first century is empathy. He dives beyond just the concept of empathy and shows why taking on other peoples perspectives can be revolutionary. He focuses on cognitive empathy, instead of affective empathy, as the main driver for a revolution of human relationships.

Mentoring System: Iteration 3

I've been working on making the mentoring system easier to read and understand the flow of entrepreneurs and mentors before and after they meet for a mentoring session. Any feedback is appreciated.

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Source Code: An Interactive Image Grid with JQuery

Over the weekend, I spent a few hours putting together a jquery script that allows for mouse detection over a 10 x 10 grid. I then placed an image over a 10x10 grid, as the mouse moves to different parts of the grid, different images appear. A demo of this can be viewed here. Take a look at the source code on the page to see it in action.

This is the portion of the code doing the main work:
And you can grab this code from my gist.

>get >put closing reception - panel discussion

Last night was the closing reception for the exhibit >get >put. The panel discussion from the evening can be viewed on this ustream. The panel discussion begins about 15 minutes into the ustream and is then followed by three performances about an hour and a half into the ustream. Enjoy a few pictures from the evening:

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Good Company Group Pitch Day

Good Company Group's pitch day went well. The company's have come a long way in crafting their message and focusing in on their target audience, customer acquisition, and business model. The summer  accelerator program was a great place to meet and work with a group of motivated and world-changing people. Each of these companies all have a social mission and they're doing it in an economically feasible way. They're focused on scalability for the greatest amount of impact.

Good Company has also attracted new businesses to the Philadelphia area as a result of their socially conscious accelerator. And some exciting news, which we learned about at the pitch day is that Good Company Group is finalist for Bloomberg's Mayor Challenge.

The companies presenting on the pitch day include Wash Cycle Laundry, psGive, PaperWool, Ziyron, StartSomeGood, EdiBikes, PhilanTech, TuvaLabs, and Regalii. Well done guys!

Enjoy the pictures from that night:

Listless Lincoln

Over the weekend, I was playing around with my girlfriend's cat, Lincoln. The idea hit me to immortalize him in the halls of the internet. You can interact with him here. Enjoy.

www.listlesslincoln.com

Mentoring Progress Report

The mentoring progress report is another building block for a mentoring system. The purpose of the progress report is to create a simple way for mentoring organizations to keep track of the businesses they're mentoring.

I imagine the progress report being filled out at least once a month or before an entrepreneur requests for mentoring. The first iteration of the progress report is below.

If you take a look at the mentoring system below, the mentoring progress report is section six: follow-up.

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