Category: EveryBlock
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On the Relaunch of EveryBlock
Today marks the relaunch of EveryBlock, six years to the day after its first launch. Here’s what I had to say: “Chicago is a national leader in civic innovation, and the return of EveryBlock is an opportunity for deepening that leadership. We’re especially interested in the development of EveryBlock as an open platform for developers…
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PANEL: Turning Data into Narrative at “The Story & The Algorithm: 2012 MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference”
Today I participated in an interesting panel at the MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference. Here’s my bit: PANEL: Turning Data Into Narrative from Daniel X. O’Neil on Vimeo. Here’s relevant snips from the conference live blog: Dan O’Neil is the Executive Director of the Smart Chicago Collaborative, which funds and fosters civic and municipal innovation. Next…
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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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INTERVIEW: Gov 2.0 2010
Here’s a short interview I did today re: EveryBlock and government data on the show floor at the O’Reilly booth at Gov 2.0. DXO Interview at Gov 2.0 2010 from Daniel X. O’Neil on Vimeo.
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PRESENTATION: Lightning Talk at Gov 2.0 2010
Today I did a short talk at the Gov 2.0 conference about lessons learned from EveryBlock. Here’s some shots:
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Launch: SeeClickFix on EveryBlock
Today I helped launch a new data type on EveryBlock: Reported issues. Here’s a snip from the announcement: Our friends at SeeClickFix run a site where you can report non-emergency community issues, like potholes, graffiti or street light outages. They’ve shared their data with us so that EveryBlock users will get notified whenever an issue…
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PRESS: The Day EveryBlock Came to Town (EveryBlock Launch in Portland)
Today I was quoted as part of a story covering the launch of EveryBlock Portland. I worked with city officials to help create the standards for their data publication as well as working to understand the data. To be honest, I like reading that kind of stuff. Maybe you do too. As O’Neil says, “we…
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EveryBlock hyperlocal strategy and government data
I lead the effort to obtain government data at EveryBlock. Here’s msnbc.com President Charlie Tillinghast talking about our local strategy: Tillinghast says that demand can be met by EveryBlock, which is attempting to become a hyperlocal resource by gathering and organizing info from government agencies, and then tasking local users to provide block-by-block news. “We’re…
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Reporting / Community-Building on EveryBlock
Here’s a post I made after reviewing EveryBlock during a breaking news story today: URL: http://seattle.everyblock.com/announcements/by-date/2009/11/30/906031/User: danx@everyblock.com (Daniel X. O’Neil) (#4601)Headline: Connections among police killings and arsons?Location: 32nd and YeslerThe suspect in the Tacoma police ambush killer was believed to be holed up two blocks away from the site of another police ambush killing on…
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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…