Rise and Shine is a regular morning roundup of links. Tips if you’ve got ‘em.
- The School for Poetic Computation is opening New York City, focused on “writing code like creative writing.” The full-time program will run for 10 weeks, cost in the neighborhood of $5,000 and operate out of the Made in NYC media center in DUMBO. And while students won’t receive a degree, the hope is that the experience “will be a validation for them to pursue a creative career.” (via Emile Hooge)
- Lying with architects’ renderings.
- The self-proclaimed World’s Largest Food Truck Rally is taking place in Tampa this weekend.
- As part of its “I Amsterdam” campaign, the Netherlands’ capital city is recruiting volunteers to stand at various locations and welcome visitors.
- New York wrestles with the ins and outs of becoming the first U.S. city to have its own top-level Internet domain in .nyc.
- CivicLab, a Chicago non-profit focused on building public engagement tools, is feeding communities back ward-level data on tax incremental financing as part of its TIF Illumination Project.
- The Museum of the City of New York is extending its Making Room exhibit on the future of housing New Yorkers; part of its fully-built micro-unit will be given away at program’s eventual end.
- One from the vault: The time when Martha Stewart did Ecobibi bike share in Mexico City (at 2:30 in).
- Not one of the Democratic candidates for New York City mayor has checked out a library book on his or her own behalf in the last year (at 1:11:21 in).
- Take a look inside Wild Rumpus, a skill-sharing collective in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, that holds one-day classes in such topics as guitar for campfires and parties ($25 AUS) , sourdough breadmaking ($20) and Iphoneography by the sea ($15). Said one of two local mums who founded the organization, “Wollongong’s ripe and ready for this sort of thing.”
Nancy Scola is a Washington, DC-based journalist whose work tends to focus on the intersections of technology, politics, and public policy. Shortly after returning from Havana she started as a tech reporter at POLITICO.