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Vincent Valk | Jul 27th, 2010 | Topic: Infrastructure | Region: East Coast | Cities: New York |
Want to get on my nerves? Say this: “Now we have the Internet, so we no longer need to x,” where x is anything other than “balance a checkbook.” (
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Open Cities | Christian Madera | Jul 22nd, 2010 | Topic: Governance, Culture | Region: | Cities: |
More and more activists are turning to Facebook to organize their fellow citizens around local issues and concerns. With a user base of over 500 million and growing, could Facebook become the tool of choice for serious civic engagement, or will it just usher in an era of point and click activism? (
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Open Cities | Christian Madera | Apr 15th, 2010 | Topic: Infrastructure, Governance | Region: | Cities: |
Custom web applications designed to link citizens with government data and officials are great. But by taking advantage of many of the existing (and free) Web 2.0 tools, cities can easily facilitate increased interaction and collaboration with residents without investing a lot of time or money. (
keep reading…)
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Diana Lind | Next American City | Dec 2nd, 2009 | Topic: Culture | Region: East Coast | Cities: Philadelphia |
Next American City is up for an
award for “Local Print Publication That Beat The Odds and Did Great Things In Their Struggling Medium This Year.” And maybe it’s time to look back on some of the coverage we did in 2009 on that yucky mess called Old Media. (
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Simmons Buntin | Mar 18th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
This website design process got me thinking about the city design process, and what they’ve got in common. Does the virtual translate to the concrete? No matter how technology changes, the process used to design websites is fundamentally the same. Is that also true for cities? (
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Hayley Richardson | Jan 22nd, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
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John Reinhardt | Oct 17th, 2007 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
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Want to get on my nerves? Say this: “Now we have the Internet, so we no longer need to x,” where x is anything other than “balance a checkbook.” (keep reading…)
More and more activists are turning to Facebook to organize their fellow citizens around local issues and concerns. With a user base of over 500 million and growing, could Facebook become the tool of choice for serious civic engagement, or will it just usher in an era of point and click activism? (keep reading…)
Custom web applications designed to link citizens with government data and officials are great. But by taking advantage of many of the existing (and free) Web 2.0 tools, cities can easily facilitate increased interaction and collaboration with residents without investing a lot of time or money. (keep reading…)
