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Interactive Tool To Balance California’s Budget Deficit…

Living in California, must people are aware of the doomsday bells ringing about the state’s fiscal crisis, but for the most part the general feeling is – why can’t these elected officials in California’s legislature agree on anything already?!!??

After playing around with this Interactive Tool from the LA Times, I can definitely see now the daunting task these elected officials are facing. This very well done tool both educates you on the issues at hand but also allows you try and balance the deficit yourself. As you can see from my attempt below, I thought I was on a roll until I came up with some very tough scenarios that I’m still thinking about. Do I cut Medicaid or increase Corporate Taxes?  Or do I cut K-14 Funds?  Definitely challenging (and depressing) and I’m still $6 billion away from my goal….

What’s New In Interactive – 4/10/2009

What’s New In Interactive is our weekly round-up of links we pass around to each other.

Here’s the latest list of links that caught our eye…

• PS3 to Facebook integration “coming quicker than some may think”.

• Now you can mow your lawn using your Wii’s remote. We wonder if you get a power-up if you create that cool checkered pattern…

• Mashable’s look at the social media players in Los Angeles. Not surprisingly, it focuses on the entertainment industry…

• Apple is about to hit 1 Billion app downloads (we wonder how many Fart apps and the like have been uninstalled though). Here’s a page documenting the countdown to 1,000,000,000.

• Nearly half (45%) of business decision makers in the US believe wireless apps are “important” or “essential” to viability. Prepare for your smartphones to get significantly more cluttered.

What’s New in Interactive – 4.07.09

What’s New In Interactive is our weekly round-up of links we pass around to each other.

Here’s the latest list of links that caught our eye…

• FriendFeed is beta-testing a Twitter make-over, and now provides updates in real-time.

• Gen Y is pretty much over Facebook.

• Ever wonder what the rest of the world is buying on Zappos.com? Here’s a Google mash-up that will let you see that in real time.

• We told you social media would replace e-mail lists. Looks like it’s starting to happen.

• New site, Mooch, will let you trade games directly with other games.

• Using millennials to market cars to millenials.

• Venture Capitalist tells you to “earn media”, don’t “buy it”.

• Ars Technica’s expert has cracked a code embedded into the TV series Fringe. Here are the details.

• Social Networking Grows 93%; communication is becoming entertainment…

• ComScore’s Twitter stats. 25 – 54 year olds are driving adoption…