While San Francisco’s Information and Communication Technology Plan offers a five-year vision for embracing technologies like crowdsourcing and location-aware applications, a team of developers designed the SMART Muni app in a weekend. The iPhone app shows the location of San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (CA) buses and allows workers to spot and fix system problems.Read… Read more »
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority announced plans to extend cell phone coverage to the Blue Line and most of the Green Line by the end of the year. By the end of 2012, the entire underground system will have service and travelers will be able to talk, text, and surf the web in the MBTA’sRead… Read more »
As a child of the 1980s, my first computer was CoCo3 (Tandy’s Color Computer 3). That was followed by an Apple IIe. And later, a loud box-shaped Mac that graced my dorm room desk at Andover. The innovation in computing and in technology that followed in the years since I was wide-eyed high school studentRead… Read more »
When TIME named the computer as the 1982 ”Machine of the Year”, it published a long profile of Steve Jobs as “the most famous maestro of the micro.” Ha! Great turn of the phrase, and that was long before he really moved out in pushing the envelope in micro electronics, consumer technology and human-focused design.Read… Read more »
Day 46 Development Review On a 1 to 10 scale of busy, I’d say today was about an 8. Most of my time seemed to be spent handling issues related to one of the developments I have been reviewing. This particular one has been a challenge because the design has changed throughout the review process.Read… Read more »
The Huffington Post’s Game Changers series “celebrates 100 innovators, visionaries, and leaders” who “are changing how we look at the world and the way we live in it.” We were honored today to find out that our own Jennifer Pahlka, CfA’s founder and executive director, was selected as a 2011 Game Changer in the BusinessRead… Read more »
A Community Manager has to be many things at once (hence the brain above). Here is my list of top 11 ingredients that make up the best community managers. 1. Listener: this person should be above all, a good listener. Hiring someone who only likes to hear him/herself speak won’t get you very far. 2.Read… Read more »
So the 2+ week National Dialog on Government Websites is over. It ended last night with 436 ideas, 1,663 comments, and 8,259 votes submitted by 992 contributors. If you didn’t get a chance to participate, the whole thing is archived for reference. Take a look – I think you’ll be impressed by the quality ofRead… Read more »
It’s terrifying. There. I said it. Judge all you like, if you’ve ever run one yourself. Have you? Or have you just sat there in your comfortable ergonomic chair in your comfortable study in your comfortable house sniping at everyone else getting it wrong? Because I hold my hand up freely – I was inRead… Read more »
I’m documenting the process leading up to the City of Reno’s first civic hackathon – maybe it will be useful for other cities. The Hack4Reno civic hackathon event will be held in downtown Reno on Oct. 15-16. Learn more at http://Hack4Reno.com Get your own valid XHTML YouTube embed code Got any questions about hosting aRead… Read more »