DXO

Year: 2009

  • POLITICAL EMAIL: Welcome Email for US Senate Campaign

    Here’s an email I created for the Hoffman For Illinois campaign today: Dear Supporter: Now that we have a full campaign team up and running, I wanted to introduce myself, kick off some guidelines for our communications, and give you a look at the fight ahead. I’m Dan O’Neil, the Director of New Media for…

  • LEGISLATION: Olympic Oversight Ordinance

    Today Alderman Manny Flores of Chicago’s First Ward introduced an ordinance that mandates greater oversight of the Chicago 2016 Bid Committee. I assisted the Alderman in the development of language calling for the release of financial data and other public documents.See some news coverage and download the entire PDF of the ordinance here.

  • “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…

  • MSNBC.com Purchase of EveryBlock

    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…

  • 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…

  • Writing: EveryBlock Statement in Support of Open Data Standards in New York City

    Today, on behalf of EveryBlock, I wrote and submitted the following statement to New York City Council: EveryBlock strongly supports the introduction of a Local Law to create open data standards in New York City. EveryBlock is a neighborhood news site serving 15 cities, including New York. You can see our work at http://nyc.everyblock.com/, where we combine public records from New York…

  • Chicago Sun-Times Editorial re: CityPayments:”You too can track city spending”

    Here’s an editorial from today’s Sun-Times.www.suntimes.com/news/commentary/1653034,CST-EDT-edit06b….July 6, 2009Ever hear about the City of Chicago spending money on something and think to yourself, that’s just goofy?Just the other day, Ald. Ed Burke griped about the city paying a contractor $915 every time it hauls a body to the morgue, while noting that other cities pay far…

  • The Launch of CityPayments

    Today I helped launch CityPayments. Here’s a snippet from the launch blog post: Take a look at CityPayments, a database of all vendors, contracts, and payments that have been posted by the municipal government of the City of Chicago to the Vendor, Contract, and Payment Search lookup tool maintained by the Department of Procurement Services.

  • PANEL: Chicago Future of Media Conference

    I took part in a panel called, “How do people consume the news, and what do they do with it?”. Here’s some video: Here’s Michael Miner’s take, and a little follow-up I wrote.

  • WRITING: Testimony re: City asset lease agreements disclosure ordinance

    Today I testified at the Chicago City Council Committee on Finance. Here’s the text: Statement of Daniel X. O’Neil in support of the proposed City asset lease agreements disclosure ordinance. Monday, June 1, 2009. 11:30 a.m., Council Chambers My name is Dan O’Neil, and I am one of the co-founders of EveryBlock.com, a neighborhood news…