reminder: ONI meeting tonight (3/23)

[Jennifer Willis]

We're meeting at the Sentinel office in North Portland tonight at 7 p.m.

We thus far have two items on the agenda for discussion:

* How has the month-long trial with The Sentinel gone, and do we want to extend this arrangement?

* ONI outreach efforts, including an appearance on Betsy's Redoing Media program

I hope to see you there!

-- jen

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[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

I suppose we Twitter / IT geeks are always the last ones to find out
about this stuff. There is now something on Twitter called "TwitZip".
Would you believe *ZIP* codes are now being "manned" by bots and
tweeting? This has something to do with a "hyperlocal" news platform
called "outside.in".

If you care, my zip code is @97007. The "mother ship" is @TwitZip. I'm
not sure what all the details are yet - still investigating. Abraham, do
you know anything about this?

On a lighter note, at tonight's meeting, I mentioned that the City had
posted data and was sponsoring an application / visualization "contest"
to analyze said data. The web site is

http://civicapps.org/

I'm planning to look at what's there tomorrow, and I'd like as many of
you as possible to do the same and tell me what kinds of story ideas
leap into your heads. Then I'll start collecting software. I took a look
at the new "Tableau" package, which is supposed to make this sort of
thing easy. There's a free version, but I think it only runs on Windows.
I do have a Windows machine, but I prefer the "industrial strength" tools.

A big hat tip to Kim Rees of Periscopic, (http://periscopic.com/) who
actually gets paid to do this sort of thing, for pointing out the site! ;-)

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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
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"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." ~ Paul Erdős

[Abraham Hyatt]

Ed: I hadn't heard of it. I'm not sure what to think of it. I don't see it having much legs. I'm sure there may be a core group of users who will @ the heck out of their own zip code. Everyone else will just keep using Foursquare, et al.  

Of course, it's the end of the day and I could just be in a cynical mood. :)

Abraham

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[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

On 03/24/2010 08:27 PM, Abraham Hyatt wrote:
> Ed: I hadn't heard of it. I'm not sure what to think of it. I don't see it
> having much legs. I'm sure there may be a core group of users who will @ the
> heck out of their own zip code. Everyone else will just keep using
> Foursquare, et al.
>
> Of course, it's the end of the day and I could just be in a cynical mood. :)
>
> Abraham

The only reason it got my attention at all was that it is somehow
connected to "outside.in" and used the "H-word". I took a look at @97007
and it looked to me innocuous enough - announcements by churches, etc.
Now I suppose if I had a church, I'd get my own Twitter account. ;-)

"Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Aloha seeks 500 volunteers to fight wor
Washington County News http://bit.ly/9AyMKK via http://outside.in/97007"

In any event, I'm currently testing to see what the fraction of Twitter
data is that's geotagged. It's not much, but I think it's important to
track the growth rates.