When you hear the loudspeaker system announce the next street the bus is stopping at, you have defacto data activists to thank.
Month: January 2013
…what we’re missing most is sustained engagement with the residents of the city of Chicago. That’s how we can turn mere hacking into real innovation. The magic combination of government, developers, and community members is what we’re after.
Road trip anyone? (via 24 Places That Look Not Normal, But Are Actually Real | MyScienceAcademy)
A round up of articles on NY’s SAFE Law and its affect on Open Data / FOIL
Details Of Gun Package Include FOIL Provision – Capital Tonight, Nick Reisman
Legislature Restricts Access to Gun Permit Data – NY Times, Christine Haughney
Guns, Maps and Disturbing Data – NY Times, David Carr
Noneck’s commentary: NY State’s open records law is so far ahead of every other state that this exemption creates an imperfect lens of transparency. A better way to handle gun permitting would have been to limit records to a zip code or a US Census track. By allowing citizens to remove themselves from public record creates a dangerous president for transparency and accountability.
if you ever wondered how many Brooklyn-based bookstores it takes to create a one minute make-out scene inside of a bookstore on Girls, the answer is confusingly: two.
DataKind is hiring
At Blue Ridge Foundation, I have the pleasure to work in the same “pod” as DataKind. If you know of someone kule, this a very kule job for them.
Aaron Swartz
Super moving…
A New Open Data Push from the Governor in New York State | TechPresident
A New Open Data Push from the Governor in New York State | TechPresident
Links. Links. Links. Links.
Good stuff in this post.