DIY City

[bjepson]

This looks relevant to Mashable City:

http://diycity.org/?q=node/3

"Twitter bots, aggregators, social software, mobile apps - we use
these things more and more in our daily routines to make our lives
better. But can we also use them to remake our cities altogether? How
can these technologies be applied to transform urban spaces, changing
them from the centralized, hard-coded things they are today into
finely-tuned, fluid, user-operated systems that are efficient,
sustainable and fit for life in the 21st century?

DIYcity is a place where people figure these things out by actually
building and launching applications that address the problems around
them."

- Brian

[Matt Gillooly]

On Nov 30 2008, 2:31 pm, bjepson <bjep...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This looks relevant to Mashable City:
>
> http://diycity.org/?q=node/3
>

Looks like DIY City is picking up some steam. They had meetings in
New York and San Francisco last week, and notes from each meeting can
be found via DIY City's new wiki @ http://diycity.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

So far it looks like their focus is a bit broader than ours, but
definitely touching on a lot of the same issues that we've talked
about... namely access to and interesting uses of information about
the cities we live in. I'm pumped to see what is hopefully the
beginnings of some momentum from them, and I look forward to watching
their progress.