Month: February 2011

  • PHOTOS: Dan Sinker is @MayorEmanuel

    Here’s some photos I took today that got some wide pickup nationally, including an exclusive article in The Atlantic. Here’s a snip from my personal blog, Derivative Works: Dan Sinker is @MayorEmanuel. Never let it be said that Daniel X. O’Neil cannot keep a secret. This morning I went to Sinker’s house to take some…

  • SPEAKING: Civic Data Chit-Chat at School of the Art Institute

    Today I spoke at George Aye’s “Living In A Smart City” classroom at the AIADO department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Here’s the premise of the course: Our premise:When a city can gather data on every aspect of it’s citizens activities, what should we do with it? What products, services and…

  • REF: Reed in A.V. Club

    My good friend and frequent collaborator Harper Reed was interviewed in A.V. Club today, and they reffed some of the work we’ve done together: After leaving Threadless, Reed focused on his own startup work and hacks, including an unofficial API for the CTA’s bus tracker program that provided web developers with the tools to include…

  • POLICY: Rahm Emanuel @ EveryBlock

    Today Chicago Mayoral candidate Rahm Emanuel visited the EveryBlock offices in the Ravenswood neighborhood of Chicago. This was the result of months of advance work with the Emanuel campaign, and it resulted in a large number of media placements for EveryBlock.Here’s the post on the Emanuel campaign Web site: Rahm visits EveryBlock, discusses plan to…