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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Marsh Greens in Dry Summer
Continuing my view of Lincoln Marsh through time, I visited this local treasure a couple of weeks ago to see how it changed since I last documented, in early April. Here’s the complete set and some highlights: It has been very dry spring, but when you live on a marsh, there’s water to be had. In early…
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Primer on the US Ignite Event at the White House
Last week I attended the US Ignite launch event at the White House, where a number of Obama administration officials made a series of announcements about programs around broadband policy. There are many entities, technologies, and programs that fit together to form a path toward United States leadership in superfast broadband, but it takes some digging and…
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Archive of My NYT Anonymity Because Clause Tweets
From April 2 – September 24, 2007, I used my Twitter account (@juggernautco) exclusively to publish all of the “because clauses” in articles from the New York Times that contained information from anonymous sources. Here’s a fun list of those tweets. because the report will be issued this morning Mon Sep 24 22:28:33 +0000 2007…
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Toward a Generic Context Engine for Civic Data
I have been thinking and writing for quite some time about how to use civic data— the type of info found on data portals like data.cityofchicago.org— to tell real stories. That’s why I’m psyched to be attending two events— Knight-Mozilla-MIT “Story & Algorithm” Hack Day on Saturday and the MIT – Knight Civic Media Conference, where I’ll…
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Stitching Together Disparate Building Info To Tell Compelling Stories
If written about creating a generic context engine for civic data, and also delved into the fact that private data is critical to understanding the world around us. in prep for the Knight-Mozilla-MIT “Story & Algorithm” Hack Day on Saturday, I wanted to lay out some specific manifestations of a general method developers could use to tell…