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A picture named daveTiny.jpgDave Winer, 56, is a visiting scholar at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and editor of the Scripting News weblog. He pioneered the development of weblogs, syndication (RSS), podcasting, outlining, and web content management software; former contributing editor at Wired Magazine, research fellow at Harvard Law School, entrepreneur, and investor in web media companies. A native New Yorker, he received a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, a Bachelor's in Mathematics from Tulane University and currently lives in New York City.

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Apps for NYC Permalink.

I got a link from Rachel Sterne, who is NYC's Chief Digital Officer -- asking for ideas for apps for NYC.

They have a site asking for ideas, and they show you what people are submitting.

They're all basically the same (good) idea.

More, better organized realtime info about life in the city.

For example. I just got back from my daily bike ride. I do the same one almost every day. Head west on 9th St, over to Christopher. Cross West St, turn right and head north to 80-something street on the Hudson bike path. Then turn around, come back via 10th St.

A picture named cab.jpgToday, while heading south, I spied an electronic street sign around 14th St that flashed by something about the bike trail being closed one day coming up soon. As I rode by one of the piers I could see they were setting up a big concert stage. So I conclude that one of the days this weekend the trail is going to be closed.

Now, how do I find out which days? And what times?

The city did a good job of putting the info geographically near where the event was going to be. Now we have to create the intellectual space for the information, so it reaches the people who need it, in time to use it.

It's not a single app, rather it's the architecture for people-oriented information on the scale of a city. Which is smaller than the world, but also richer and more complex. Because in a city like NY people do a wide variety of things. It works. But if the information were more available, it would work better.

DaveCast #3 Permalink.

Today's podcast is 27 minutes.

More talk about work on CSS and the World Outline.

And the madness of Mozilla and their plan for Firefox.

As it gets more painful to continue to use Firefox, the pain of switching to Chrome becomes more bearable.

Yet Firefox is open source, so its demise is everyone's concern, not just their employees.

PS: davecast.org was available. :-)

PPS: Today's ride: 1 hour 2 minutes, 11.12 miles.



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