Open Data
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The Making of a Police Station: Contracts, Architecture, and the Public Building Commission
There is a new police station to be opened at 850 West Addison. The Public Building Commission— a large and powerful force in the creation of libraries, schools, police stations, and the like– actually has an amazing page of info on the building of the 23rd District police station. This includes great detail like every…
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Danger and Opportunity in Transparency
Here in June 2009, the word “transparency” has some real legs. It’s tossed around so often that I’d have to say it is in the running for word of the year. The problem is that it may up being a lot of storm, signifying nothing. Just might end up like 1993’s information superhighway that life…
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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