I get excited over local elections. Ever since I met Ruby and moved to Chapel Hill I’ve been hooked. I love learning about this whole process. One of my favorite bits this year was Ruby’s election coverage videos. (I’m a bit jealous actually. I want to do vids like this!) She made these with [...]
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I had a good time at Startup Weekend Chapel Hill. It was exhausting but a worthwhile experience. Here’s one lesson that I learned.
Find Data then Write an Web Application For It
When we brainstorm ideas for creating web applications we think about what you can do to data. Like how to present it, [...]
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Please donate to the Orange Politics fundraising drive to help pay for site improvements. Read more here.
Our last update was 3 years ago, and OP is seriously needing better identity management and improved community tools. I think drupal will be a good solution for us, and I hope to work with [...]
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Dan Barkin of the News and Observer has a good article called Bloggers Talk Science. It tells a short but good story about the marvelous Mister Sugar and shares the details of the NC Science Blogging Conference. It also tells the world about all the cool stuff we’ve done with our blogger meet-up [...]
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Local governments don’t spend millions of dollars and go through great hassle to create telecommunications monopolies. Most often they get into the business of providing infrastructure because the private sector won’t do it or can not do it at a high enough level. (DSL sucks and Cable modems are just enough)
Yesh.com and a BUNCH of North Carolina blogs have been nominated for a Koufax Best Coverage of State or Local Issues Award. While I am VERY flattered I think other blogs produce WAY more local blog post than I do. I mean I just wrote a Linux howto.
So my vote is going [...]
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Maybe Tweet Volume can help answer this question. What are people Twittering about?
Some more questions… Are these answers valuable? How accurate are they? How do we display the change that comes about over of time?
Hat tip to Biz on the Twitter blog.
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We just learned that a popular and beloved peice of public art in Carrboro, North Carolina is gone. It was painted over suddenly. Read all about this on Orange Politics, The News and Observer, and The Carrboro Citizen. Here is my idea of what to do next. (cross posted from the comments [...]
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Last week I created a new user on Twitter called RDCH. It stands for Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill. The idea is for this Twitter user to act like a group. I’ve been using Twittervision Map and Google to find people who’ve identified that they live somewhere in the Triangle aka RDCH. (That includes [...]
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In this weeks Carrboro Citizen you’ll find the Charter of the Town of Carrboro. You may wonder who besides a politician or bureaucrat would enjoy reading this document? Well me for one.
Why? Because within this ancient legalese lies answers to why things happen in Carrboro. Time and time again here on OP [...]
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