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Since at least some New Yorkers have adopted the name, we think using it will help the public find information that will help them be prepared and safe during the storm – and that’s our goal in communicating during severe weather,” Julie Wood, the mayor’s deputy press secretary and voice behind @NYCMayorsOffice, said in an email. “We know that a lot of New Yorkers get their information via Twitter and that’s why we put information there and on other social media platforms with great frequency during severe weather. We want that information to be searchable and easy to find.

Naming Nemo: how The Weather Channel took storm names away from the government | The Verge

And New York City is at the core of the phoenix-like rise in US manufacturing. Says Matt: ‘Brooklyn is a really exciting place to be with Maker’s Row, because the makers community is huge here. [The] manufacturing scene doesn’t get as much appreciation as it should in the New York area, but it’s a huge opportunity for us to be stationed here.’

Can MakersRow.com Bring Manufacturing Back to America? (Forbes.com) A New York City success story, via NYCEDC Entrepreneur at Large Steve Rosenbaum. (via nycedc)

Brooklyn!!!

A call for technology driven Community Boards in NYC

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Jessica Lappin, currently a City Council member and Manhattan Boro President candidate, just released a paper on the future / reform of community boards. In this document, there is some juicy TECH DRIVEN POLICY tidbits.
Some take aways… 
1. Taking boards into the 21st Century 
  – Community Stat 
  – Live streaming 
  – Online surveys and crowd-sourcing maps 
2. Greater diversity on boards 
  – adding small business owners and engineers. 
4. Online training of responsibilities 
5. Digital tools for planning and development 
6. Onlineing the business application process
These are great TECHNOLOGY driven policies to bring our land use councils / aka Community Boards into the 21st Century. I will be adding this to the Open NY 2013 Goals and workshop reading list.
* This posting doesn’t not constitute an endorsement of this candidate.

There was blackout in the third quarter last night. Perhaps it represented the still fragile state of New Orleans’ recovery, and the city’s delicate infrastructure. Or maybe the stadium simply blew a fuse with the technological schock-o-thon at halftime. The game itself was pretty good. But the blackout had another meaning to me. It may have featured Destiny’s Child – but it most surely lacked destiny’s children.

Tom Watson: Heckuva Job, Beyonce

“We want our policy to be more end-user-centric and not carrier-centric. That’s where there is a difference in opinion” with carriers and their partners, said a senior FCC official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the proposal is still being considered by the five-member panel.

Tech, telecom giants take sides as FCC proposes large public WiFi networks – The Washington Post