Month: August 2009
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“Wide Right Turn”Collection Covered in AIGA
Here’s a great article on the AIGA blog– “Keep on Truckin’, With Caution” that covers the design of wide right turn signs. The author covers my collection and my email convo with Mark Bender pretty extensively: Others have taken an interest in these truck decals, too. Not long ago I came across a web site…
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MSNBC.com Purchase of EveryBlock
Here’s a snip from some of the news coverage of the sale of EveryBlock that focuses on the public data work that I spearheaded: MSNBC.com Buys EveryBlock as Interest in Local Content Grows | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD. EveryBlock takes a slightly different approach, scouring a mass of publicly available data in a…
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WRITING: “Chicago’s First Attempt At TIF Sunshine Falls Short”on Progress Illinois
Today Progress Illinois published an article that I co-wrote with Max Brooks: Chicago’s First Attempt At TIF Sunshine Falls Short. Here’s a snip: The Projects section typically has a project name with supporting documents linked beneath. Document types include: Redevelopment Agreements These are often simply copies of the relevant pages from the City Council Journal…