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CyberStar / The Man With the Golden Mashup: Adrian Holvaty
Here’s a great profile on the cover of the Chicago Tribune Magazine today of my friend and colleague Adrian Holovaty.
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“I Got A Guy” and “The Lady Derivation”
Yesterday at EveryBlock we launched our first Special Report — an annotated map of addresses mentioned in the criminal complaints associated with Operation Crooked Code, a “joint investigation of the Inspector General’s Office, the U.S. Attorneys Office, the FBI, and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service has resulted in the arrest of 15 individuals, including 7…
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Crime Tipster Hotline = Crowdsourcing
The NYT reports an increase in pay-per-arrest crime tipster hotline reports as the economy tightens. As Prices Rise, Crime Tipsters Work Overtime – New York Times To gas prices, foreclosure rates and the cost of rice, add this rising economic indicator: the number of tips to the police from people hoping to collect reward money.…
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Open Government Data and the EveryBlock Project
Today I published this post on MediaShift IdeaLab: Open Government Data and the EveryBlock Project
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More Connections
In know that people’s eyes glaze over when they see the term "Web 2.0" bandied about, but I still think it’s useful in describing a set of interconnected technologies and activities. Here’s an earnest attempt to define Web 3, where Vin Crosbie writes of sites like EveryBlock. He’s got a pretty good example of what…