First POST: MonopSony
BY Micah L. Sifry | Friday, December 19 2014
Debating whether the Sony hack is a national security issue; living in the Age of Outrage; how Black Twitter is changing the civil rights scene; and much, much more. Read More
Philadelphia, Portland and Code For America work on building a better RFP
BY Miranda Neubauer | Thursday, September 4 2014
While Healthcare.gov is now often used as short-hand for government procurement challenges and questions are being raised about New York City's contracting process for a project to reinvent pay phones as Wi-Fi hot-spots, cities such as Philadelphia and Portland, along with Code for America, are among those working with city officials and companies to redefine and reinvent the Request for Proposals process. Read More
Airbnb Tries To Be a Model Corporate Citizen With Shared City
BY Sam Roudman | Thursday, March 27 2014
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky in 2011 Photo credit: @Kmeron
Yesterday in a post on Medium, Brian Chesky, the CEO of short term rental platform Airbnb announced a new city based company initiative in Portland, Oregon called “Shared City.” The initiative is an an effort by Airbnb to become a model corporate citizen, and also to atone for subverting civic regulations which helped grow the company into the $10 billion goliath it is today. Read More
First POST: Secret Sharers
BY Micah L. Sifry | Thursday, March 27 2014
Jimmy Carter on Edward Snowden; Airbnb partners with Portland as a "shared city"; open data engagement strategies from around the world; and much, much more. Read More
If Data Is The First Step, Scraperwiki is a Staircase
BY Nick Judd | Wednesday, December 8 2010
Max Ogden's video on Web scraping with Scraperwiki from Max Ogden on Vimeo. Read More