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Given today’s snow storm I thought I would share how I keep track of the weather. My favorite source of weather information is Forecast.io and its iOS companion app Dark Sky. These applications seem to be the cleanest way to view weather information. They also have a transparent data driven approach to local forecasting. However I also pay attention to Ryan Hanrahan on twitter. He does a great job of explaining the forecast and intrepreting the data.

Last year my friend Wade Gibson asked me to help him build a Connecticut chapter of the New Leaders Council organization. Wade and others put much work into building up our chapter. These are the kinds of things that require teamwork. Money had to be raised, venues secured, candidates interviewed, curriculum developed, and a communications strategy executed. This was not a small task, it was a year in the making.

In politics there is a tradition of injecting non-sequitor ideas into popular movements. It is similar to a search engine optimization technique where you try to get attention by making your idea sound like a thing that others are searching for and interested in. In some cases these points might make sense, for example people that raise the idea that in order to tackle education reform we need to tackle child nutrition. However in this case Blackberry’s proposal does not fit with the principles shared by net neutrality supporters.

I have recently been enjoying the Startup podcast. The premise of this podcast is that it is the story of Alex Blumberg’s journey of starting a podcast company. The podcast covers some of the interesting and tough situations that startup founders face like raising money and finding a partner. However the most recent episode covers a topic familiar to many in the legal and campaign professions: burnout.

Chris Moody tells some interesting stories about twitter and data at the beginning of this video: