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An open data challenge from Anil Dash

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Karl

Anil Dash: “The Health Graph: Mortal Threats & Signs of Life”: As a community of developers and technologists, we have to build powerful, indispensable apps and services on top of this data. Killer apps that save lives. If we can … Continue reading →

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Lawrence Lessig shakes the faithful?

Posted on October 18, 2009 by Karl

TNR: Lawrence Lessig: Against Transparency: The perils of openness in government. Yes – you read that title right. Lessig connects the dots from newspapers to the music industry and the ripple effects taking place – everything having to do with … Continue reading →

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Terrific happenings in the governing and citizen related Web

Posted on July 1, 2009 by Karl

Tim O’Reilly: Radical Transparency: The New Federal IT Dashboard (and check out the site itself at it.usaspending.gov) Data.gov iteratively grows from 47 to 100,000 data feeds (source Atrios) EveryBlock blog: EveryBlock source code released Tim Bray: “Hello World” for Open … Continue reading →

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Refresh Philly Followups

Posted on May 11, 2009 by Karl

Following Refresh Philly May have been some great discussions in its related Google Group. Technically Philly posted two followups: City CIO’s $100 million Digital Philadelphia vision and Editorial: City government calls for tech support Jonny Goldstein, on his blog, envizualize, … Continue reading →

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“the Internet is counterproductive to peace”

Posted on February 3, 2003 by Karl

Hey it’s not me, it’s John Perry Barlow saying that in a recent interview. He precedes this by saying, “There are a million virtual streetcorners with a million lonely pamphleteers on them, all of them decrying the war and not … Continue reading →

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