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‘SFpark’ Opens Parking Data
A new project from the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency allows drivers to check out parking pricing and availability from the web or iPhone and iPad, and enables flexible pricing for the most desirable parking spots at different hours throughout the day. You can fill up on information about SFpark here. SFpark has also...[read more]
Living With Catastrophe
Elaine Sullivan2011 City Hall Fellow, San FranciscoIn the March 28th issue of "The New Yorker," I came across this paragraph in Evan Osnos' article "Aftershocks: Living with catastrophe," which had been put under the header "Letter from Japan":On the hilltop overlooking the ruined city if Rikuzentakata, Jimbo met a semi-retired man in...[read more]
Thinking Global, Acting Local: Let’s Do It SF!
City Attorney Dennis Herrera’s Office today launched an initiative very dear to my heart, Let’s Do It SF! The anti-blight campaign brings together resources from City departments including DPW, 311 and SF Environment, as well as mobile and Web geo-tagged incident reporting from SeeClickFix and Open311, and the inspiration of an...[read more]
Open Gov Summit Planning in SF
I headed over to Granicus’ SoMa offices last night to join in a local planning meeting for an SF Bay Area open government summit. Eight of us discussed a local event as part of a U.S.-wide series of municipal-level summits to organize around and promote themes of transparency, participation and collaboration in government. In the...[read more]
San Francisco Creates App Store
The city of San Francisco today announced the launch of the DataSF App Showcase (www.datasf.org/showcase). The site will, according to the City’s Mayor, “celebrate the innovators and innovations from a more collaborative and open government. On the site the public can browse examples of new ways in which Bay Area constituents are...[read more]
Dean Halstead is a Lead Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton and serves on the Advisory Board for the SmartBrief on Social Media. More »
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Steve Radick is a Lead Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton and serves on the Advisory Board for the SmartBrief on Social Media. More »
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“The anonymity issue is an important one, and like a lot of things, there's pro's and con's. I "prefer" actually NOT having anonymous comments, but one problem is that there ARE valid reasons why people have to remain anonymous. I do agree with you that dumping things on Facebook is problematic. Frankly I'm not sure what the solution is.”
“ Great article! One idea – maybe the best (for you) way to respond to your notice would be to replace the infrigement by a link back to the original at your site. I don’t understand why people copy articles – that’s a waste of their disk space while only linking to the original is almost equally valuable. And if they ask you for a permission ...”