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YOUROWNDEMOCRACY is a concept project that proposes an independent real-time voter sentiment feedback loop merging social networking, direct political engagement, and the design of electronic market exchanges to create a modern online platform for participatory democracy. 

YOD is an on-going personal project and will evolve with the collaboration of many smart people this project seems to be attracting. Full documentation and open participatory blog coming soon. (Note: Obama's fantastic Change.gov is a small step in the direction of the YOD proposal...compare the two to see the differences.)

2008 Buckminster Fuller Institute Challenge Submission

Original GONGBLOG post about YOD with comments

YOD Makes BFI's FIRST CUT!

YOD one of 33 Finalists! (updated 04-30-09)

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Willow's first swimming lesson at the community pool. I had pulled my back the day before, so it was a little excruciating to be moving around in the shallow kiddie pool, but it was worth it. She had a blast.

In NYC in March, we met one of the families who travelled with us to China for a reunion at our favorite Chinese restaurant, Congee Village. Here, Willow and Samantha get silly after not seeing one another for over a year. Samantha has grown healthy and strong, happy as can be.

Bonnie and Willow blowing out the candles in an incredible cupcake tower for Bonnie's birthday made by our dear friend Lynn.

One of Willow's favorite things to do is to empty the dish cabinets and make elaborate scale utopian urban cityscapes on our kitchen floor. While stripping.

Rummy, an almost 4 year old Dutch Warmblood gelding, is the newest member of the Schwartz Szeto clan. He's an incredible athlete and is as curious about Willow, as she is about him.

Willow peeping through a hole in the dressage arena gate, at Bonnie working with Rummy and trainer Alex.

My new '09 Kawasaki Ninja, bought as a little gift to myself post-quitting-job, and pre-midlife crisis. My trusty Yamaha TW200 is still with me, and always will be. Small displacement bikes rule. The weather FINALLY turned here recently. Time to ride...a LOT.

 

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Coroflot's 2007 Designer Salary Survey Released

DateJan 9, 2008 at 06:07PM CommentPost a Comment

Check out the Coroflot 2007 salary survey here. Then check out Catherine Mulbrandon's "How Much Do You Earn" to compare design with other professions and the rest of the country. Then ask yourself how much facetime a mega-bigtime CEO who makes $100,000,000 a year will give a fancy design+innovation strategist who makes $100,000 a year. Ultimately, compensation is about accountability (designers have no accountability in the business world, really - think about it), and I honestly think the ratio reflects reality in terms of whose ass hangs out more in the business world. (The ratio is 1000:1 in this humble not-at-all-inflated example, heh).

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