Personal posts
Posts on architecture, obsessions, photography, poems, visits to art exhibits, essays, family, and or things about me organized under art, home, and work.
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Harper Reed: “The power is not the mashup. It’s the data.”
When most people go to the CTA Bus Tracker Web site and click on Estimated Arrival Times or the Bus Location Map, they see a way to find out when their next bus might get to the stop near them. Another nifty map mashup they can use to plot their trips daily. When Harper Reed saw the same…
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Ethics 404
Does anyone else find it fitting that the page on the City of Chicago Web site for the 30th Annual Government Ethics Law Conference currently returns an error page? Here's the cached page.
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Appendix to the City of Chicago study, “Cultural Landcape of Chicago”
Pretty interesting maps in here. Update, February 2023: see also
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Chicago Nature and Wildlife Plan: a strategy to enhance natural habitats within the City of Chicag
Who knew we had one? This is from 2006. See also Chicago Nature Areas Directory.
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CTA launches RSS feeds for every train and bus line
Probably the best thing to come out of the launch of a new Web site for the Chicago Transit Authority is an RSS feed for every train line and bus line in the system. It's a veritable orgy of orange icons — you can subscribe to all sorts of breakdowns: All Alerts, which includes planned…