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Change By Us Philly in Beta: civic media & software

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Karl

“Change by Us Philly” recently launched in beta, part of the “Change By Us” effort started by “CEOs for Cities”, “Local Projects” and “Code for America” and is funded by The Knight Foundation and The Rockerfeller Foundation. It describes itself … Continue reading →

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Mind blowing TED talk on algorithms as a ’3rd evolutionary force’

Posted on September 18, 2011 by Karl

TED.com: Kevin Slavin: Kevin Slavin: How algorithms shape our world:

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A visualization on the growth of public APIs and open data

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Karl

GOOD: “Out in the Open”

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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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