It’s a beautiful weekend here in NYC, about time, I’m as white as a ghost and was wondering if the sun still existed.  The seasons are once again changing here in the northeast giving a sense of renewal and progress.  While my time spent living in San Diego was amazing, it lacked a feeling that life was moving forward, primarily because the weather never really changed, each day just seemed to bleed into the next.  I love seeing the city wake up from its winter slumber, people return to the Union Square farmers market, eating lunch outside on the lawn.  I walked from Union Square through the West Village and then up the river yesterday, it just felt great to be outside again.

I’ve been meaning to write a bit about education, it’s been on my mind lately for many different reasons.  I have a friend who is looking into starting a charter school here in NYC, he’s an extremely bright guy with a lot of excellent ideas.  Another person very close to me is looking to return to school for their master’s degree, and there has been a great deal of literature lately regarding changes to both the primary and secondary education systems in this country due to our current economic situation.  Students in California rioted this week due to school budget cuts, they blocked a freeway, and there are mass demonstrations going on in NYC regarding the closure of under performing schools.  I’ll be talking about this in more detail this week hopefully, but for now…

Here is your weekend reading:

I’m leading off with something funny this week, because it’s so damn good, just watch (John Stewart)

I’m going to continue to stress the importance of cloud computing, it may be the most important aspect to making great mobile a reality (Voxeu)

Palm is fucked, there are no two ways about it, the smoke is clearing and their recent earnings guidance smashed many of the mirrors (Barrons)

Technology continues to bring down the price for content, the trend continues with iPad e-books (NYT)

I don’t have words to express how awesome the gold medal hockey game was, it was perfect (NHL)

The real unemployment rate is a fingernail from 20%, it’s only going higher (GALLUP)

What a great piece of prose and good advice from Barry, make sure you read this one (The Big Picture)

If you follow my Twitter stream, you know that on several occasions when I have been inebriated (to put it lightly), I have proposed this.  I’m being completely serious now when I say, I will at some point start a fund to do this, I am already speaking with lawyers, and I will change the way that secondary education is paid for.  More on this at a later date, but for now, just read (Venture Beat)

What an amazing story about how learning to “teach” has been overlooked in favor of teaching theory, this is so important (NYT)

I am proud to be a part of the New York City tech scene revival building StockTwits (NYT)