Gov2.0Radio's Adriel Hampton, formerly with the San Francisco City Attorney, will join Jim Gilliam's NationBuilder project as its chief organizer, Gilliam told me in a Twitter direct message. Hampton is a well-known ... Read More

In Washington, D.C., Homicide Watch D.C. editor Laura Amico noticed something odd in her Google Analytics reports yesterday: People were coming to her site looking for "20 year old male killed on fort stanton se may 4." ... Read More

Technically Philly describes a hackathon project to find all properties owned by a given landlord by cross-referencing scraped data and city databases: So, say, a small-time property developer wanted neighborhood ... Read More

Sohaib Athar, "unwitting" witness to history, becomes more deliberate: Read More

University of Massachusetts political science professor Stuart W. Shulman has built software for doing textual analysis on large amounts of data. So when he saw an explosion of Twitter activity around the death of Osama ... Read More

In the Guardian, Eben Moglen writes that the press-as-institution is doomed, and seems to argue that the continuation of democracy depends on a decentralized Internet built on free software: Now, the vast interconnection ... Read More

Federal Emergency Management Administration Administrator Craig Fugate is now discussing social media and disaster response with the Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs. C-SPAN is offering ... Read More

The arm of Washington, D.C.'s government responsible for technology — the D.C. Government's Office of the Chief Technology Officer, or OCTO for short — is crowdsourcing the name of an upcoming campaign for ... Read More

OpenPlans, one of the most prolific foundries of new technology for government, announced yesterday that it would roll its open government efforts into another project it has been helping to develop. OpenPlans' open ... Read More

The USDA today released a new web application called Food Desert Locator, which provides census tract-level mapping of areas "where a substantial number or share of residents has low access to a supermarket or large ... Read More