Year: 2010
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REF: Post About Goofy Contract / CityPayments
Here’s a nice post from Chicago Muckrakers, acting on a contract I flagged as goofy over on CityPayments: Company accused of stealing millions from NYC and hurricane victims gets money from Chicago. The City of Chicago has given over $7 million to Spherion, a company whose employees were targeted by federal prosecutors last week for…
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PRESENTATION: Gov 2.0 Talk at Obtiva
Here’s a tech talk I participated in today at the Obtiva offices. Open Gov. Discussion at Obtiva Geekfest from Obtiva on Vimeo.
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PHOTO: Rahm Emanuel Announcing His Candidacy for Chicago Mayor
I took a relatively widely used photo of Rahm Emanuel today. The image is licensed under Creative Commons and was used widely by publications covering Emanuel’s successful campaign for Mayor. Here are some examples:
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WORKSHOP: Philadelphia Connect Project for Code for America
Today I participated in a workshop in Philadelphia focused on brainstorming for one of the inaugural projects of the exciting new CodeForAmerica project. Really great stuff they’re working on.
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PANEL: Gov 2.0 at midVentures Launch
Today I took part in a panel discussion focused on how the Gov 2.0 movement provides opportunity for business.
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Remarks: MCIC 20th Anniversary and Data Innovation Awards
Tonight I gave some remarks on behalf of my colleague, Harper Reed, who received the Data Innovation Award at the MCIC 20th Anniversary and Data Innovation Awards for his work on the Chicago Transit API. Basically I just said that we have to fuck shit up right about now.
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Launch: EveryBlock Widget
Today I led the launch of a new feature on EveryBlock. Here’s a blog post I wrote on the subject: Introducing the EveryBlock Widget. Here’s a snip: One of the best things we liked about developing this feature is the conversations we’ve had with bloggers, newspapers, and other news outlets to ask them what they’d like to…
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Photography: DuPage County Fair 2010
Here’s a photo essay I published today:
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PRESS:”Chicago gets geocoded, use of location-based data on the rise”(Columbia Chronicle)
Nice student story here about geo-info: Dan O’Neil, manager of business development at Chicago-based website EveryBlock, implements a similar policy. EveryBlock has collected raw data from a variety of sources to provide granular information since 2007, ranging from newly installed bike racks on the street to crimes on any particular city block, in 16 cities…
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PANEL: “Covering The City”at the Great Cities Institute at UIC
Today I participated in a panel discussion about urban reporting and research. Here’s a flyer for the event:Covering the City Complete audio of the panel here and links to the intro and Q&A.