On the US Gov’t “Going Google”
On the US Gov’t “Going Google” - very true. Google has had great success, and thus they are a problem.
some public transit data notes
I started writing this post a few weeks ago and have mostly forgotten what I was going to write about. whups…
Headway Wiki is a great wiki for public transit data, which accompanies the Headway blog. I added some links for Waterloo, Toronto, and Seattle.
It is great seeing that some cities are opening up their data in a somewhat standard format, although I wish everyone would. Governments trying to keep their data private is almost universally pointless and counter-productive. Google Transit seems to be the best generalized transit trip planner (on the other hand, there seem to be several new ones I haven’t explored), although sites targeted to specific cities often offer a lot more.
Unfortunately I missed out on the first Metronauts unconference, Metronauts being an expansion of TorontoTransitCamp. The wiki is sorta all over the place, but I guess moving from unconferences to major projects takes time.
Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy: The Greatest Generation Gap Since Rock and Roll — New York Magazine
Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy: The Greatest Generation Gap Since Rock and Roll — New York Magazine - a much-needed article, although I’m still reading it. One the one side, privacy is now in crisis mode, with everything publicly available; on the other hand, the younger generation is paradigm shifting, and embrases the privacylessness wholeheartedly.
If a tree falls, and it is doesn’t have a permalink, did it really happen? How would we know if it did, there’s not even a video of it…