Via Chris Pinchen.

Yes.

I've been looking for this for awhile - I think I saw it mentioned at the AA in London last time I was there. Anyway, delighted (and not particularly surprised) to see it turn up at Open Structures.

Via Bruce, and just what it says on the tin.

Via Rahul. "[T]he open city is not a specific place, it’s not a fixed entity. Rather, it’s a condition, usually found only in fragments, in parts of cities, where a fragile balance between integrating and disintegrating forces is maintained."

Here's my talk from dConstruct in Brighton a few weeks back. My goodness, I do go on. This is an absolutely sprawling talk! Check the tags for some idea of content.

Via Berkman, an interesting comparison of municipal attitudes toward transit data. (Broadly: East Coast cities see such data as IP to be, urgh, monetized; West Coast cities perhaps unsurprisingly treat it more like a public good.) Will want to start authoring legislation mandating that such data be held in the public trust and made freely and universally available for the common good of all.

I'm very much encouraged by the advent of community initiatives like this ("The Car Is Here For You To Use"?), but a little distressed that we're still talking about *cars*. Crawford, it seems, has had an impact on me.

"Republican politicians on Thursday called for a sweeping new federal law that would require all Internet providers and operators of millions of Wi-Fi access points, even hotels, local coffee shops, and home users, to keep records about users for two years to aid police investigations." Not even sure this could be implemented, let alone enforced; either way, awful precedent.

Very nice. I love that the default tile for my Helsinki neighborhood pinpoints the location of bars.

Looks like a lot of fun.

Nicolas is right in that this *is* a very important point, but it's certainly been made by a great many people. Vernor Vinge did a really good job underlining this, actually, in the otherwise not-great "Rainbow's End."

Their sustaining grant running out, EveryBlock decides to open and share their code. I applaud.

We're self-publishing my next book. No idea what we're doing. No net. Never felt better.

Excellent. Do you think they can AT&T to do the same? Put another way: who needs "full service" when that really means "no service"?

The NYT thinks it sees signs of a turn toward openness in the entrails. That may be significant in itself.