little late to the party with this one really cool concept. view recommended locations based on how your feeling. currently available for new york london and toronto. they should partner with everyblock and have recommended events and nicer maps.......
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a progress illinois analysis of the 2008 general election results found that every county in the state voted heavily against the proposed 2010 constitutional convention.a this isnt a huge surprise considering that the referendum was defeated by over a 30 percent margin at the statewide level. nonetheless the lack of variance is pretty striking. as we were collecting the data i......
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citysearch probably isnt your goto site for local searches. while the site can be useful its current interface is more likely to start you reminiscing about the old geocities network than inspire a return visit. but citysearch is hoping to change that perception with a new beta version that brings the site up to web 2.0 speed with facebook connect integration a coming iphone app and......
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writing in the mediashift idea lab on pbs.org david sasaki wins the award for the longest argument yet in favor of government funding of the failing journalism business. i try not to get into outright arguments here but this seems to me to be a really really bad idea. you cant micromanage every single industry with bailouts and new taxes to support them. if us automakers for instance......
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today knight is launching a new community site called knight pulse a place to discuss the future of information. despite the current explosion of information we are less informed. and in a world defined by information exchange we need new ways to give share find and receive information in our communities. the goal of the pulse site is to start conversations with a video post an......
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dear mr. presidentelect it is my belief that the government needs to be open and transparent by using the internet. you have stated the following as part of your technology agenda. we need to connect citizens with each other to engage them more fully and directly in solving the problems that face us. we must use all available technologies and methods to open up the federal government......
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everyblock is a very interesting player in the hyperlocal space and one that ill be watching in the future. if you blog locally about the cities that everyblock covers its also a site that you should submit your content to for possible distribution. more on that in a bit where many hyperlocal sites focus on townlevel or citylevel news everyblock focuses on what it......
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senseable city lab new york talk exchange nyte 2008 well three days into visualizar08 and i feel like my head is going to explode. i cant recall the last time i heard so many great presentations in such a short span of time. i was a bit preoccupied with my talk which was yesterday and went reasonably well now i can get down to the business of sharing some ......
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site references by chris brauer in lecture 3 of online journalism on 27 oct 2008 my office hours sign up sheet password london one of adrian holovatys original posts on the importance of data to journalist s washingt on post and the faces of the fallen campaign gulf harbours automated story hans rosling video on presenting data mysociety in the uk and fixmystr......
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will the financial crisis lead to the end of web 2.0 daniel lyons already uses the term webtwodotover . nonsense says tim oreilly at the first keynote of the web 2.0 expo in berlin. these are difficult times for startup companies who need financial support from venture capitalists vc but that has nothing to do with the trends and opportunities which are still ......
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this is a followup to yesterdays post about matt waites approach to datadriven journalism. after i posted matt sent me an email with some additional information and i asked him if i could publish it here. he said yes. back in the paleolithic era of our web site he wrote meaning 2004 the st. petersburg fla. times ran a real estate package ......
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i organized a session at this weekends wherecamp portland called geolocal autoscribing rss feeds and began the session by drawing a big grid of portlands quadrants on the white board. i labeled them nw ne sw se and then began drawing circles all over the place. the circles represented ranges of hea ring8217 that a mobile device might have to rss feeds. i po......
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well well well looks like the folks at google want django creator and newspaper programming guru adrian holovaty to join the ranks of the g . fact fiction does google want to buy everyblock everyblock was backed by a grant adrian won from the knight foundation. the terms of the grant run up in june 2009 this is when the site code will be released to the publ......
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welcome to episode 125 of six pixels of separation the twist image podcast . while i was supposed to meet niall cook author of enterprise 2.0 in person we wound up doing a phone conversation on the future of work how companies are dealing with these social tools and what you need to know about it. its a twentyminute plus conversation and there are lots of kernels of ......
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everyblock a news feed for your block......
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i met yesterday with tomas bella europes rob curley and chiefofweb at the slovak daily sme . benefiting from an online presence since 1993 bosses committed to the web and a young staff that knows how to use a computer tomas developed dozens of innovative web solutions so that sme.sk is now the leading news site in slovakia and one of the only profitable ones. below are some o......
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by simon willison program chair developer track we have an exciting lineup of speakers for this years fowa. im going to be posting interviews with some of them as a preview to their talks. first up is andrew turner cofounder of mapufacture and author of ore illy8217 s introduction to neogeography . andrew will be presenting beyond google maps at......
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michael alexander submitted the following comment yesterday because perceptions and reality can be so different discussions on transit safety need to start with data. i need to see city maps with skytrain station locations and markers showing the locations of criminal activities. there should be monthly and yearly data maps. a search of the vancouver police department web site doesnt s......
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... well people may more quickly develop an understanding of their neighborhood even if theyve just moved there and how those neighborhoods connect to the local environment.a see httpwww .everybloc k.com for example.a they may react poorly to issues like local superfund sites or underfunded community schooling or other inescapable side effects of civic planning.a we really have no way of seei...
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starting with fridays presentation bya chris anderson i will be covering the wired nextfest 2008 here in chicago. the weekend event will highlight new technologies and innovations from around the world focusing on the areas of sustainability healthcare design robotics games and more. if youre in the chicago area and can make it out toa millenniumapark this weekend here a......
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dan oneill of everyblock fame is calling for publication of all mortgages that the government read we 822141 is going to buy in the bailout bill. . id like them to publish a list of all of the mortgages they purchase the loan number the address of the property the lender the amount of the loan the status of the loan the plaintiffs ......
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witam. nazywam siae marcin kaszyski. wanie opublikowaem stronae warsztaty it wiaec to jest dobry moment eby napisaae oco tu chodzi iczego mona siae spodziewaae. na poczaetku wrzenia django rodowisko do tworzenia serwisaw internetowych po ponad trzech latach ciaegego rozwoju zostao oznaczone jako wersja 1.0. nie oznacza to wcale e wtym czasie nie n......
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here are my edi ted chrissieb tweets sent from sessions at web 2.0 expo nyc 9.18.08 keynote tim oreilly laughing about the fact that some of the smartest people out there are working on facebook apps v. saving the world. 8 220create more value than you capture. 8221 82 20learn and live pascals wager . looking at the sobering facts of how mu......
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del 16 al 19 de septiembre ha tenido lugar el congreso web 2.0 expo 2008 en nueva york organizado por techweb y oreilly media . el web 2.0 expo reane cada aao a los principales profesionales que trabajan en el desarrollo de la internet del futuro. tendencias en cuanto a las tendencias que se perfilan para el maaana hay que destacar la geolocalizacian crowdsourcing......
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