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Category: Politics

  • Documenters for the Chicago Police Accountability Task Force meetings

    This month I conceived, led, and participated in the documentation of the four community forums hosted by the Chicago Police Accountability Task Force. The work, centered at Smart Chicago, is a part of the Documenters program. Here’s a snip from a blog post I wrote, kicking off this particular work with the CPATF: We care about…

  • Panel: New Media Ventures State of the Field Call

    Today I participated in a webinar on the opportunities and challenges in the world of political technology. Here’s slides from my portion:

  • PANEL: Illinois Government Transparency Conference

    Today I participated in a panel discussion on the state of transparency in Illinois. Here’s the packet associated with the conference. When we went around to throw out the problems that need solving, the one I focused on was the fact that there is little to no true collaboration among all parties. That is to…

  • PHOTOS: Meeting of Mayor-Elect Rahm Emanuel and Dan Sinker, Author of the @MayorEmanuel

    Today I did a set of photos at a pretty historic day in literary and political Chicago, including this canonical one: Here’s a video of me taking this picture of Sinker + the Mayor-Elect: Here’s me in the studio as, seen in Fox News footage: And WGN footage: Fun day– nice to be a part…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Presentation: “Hack The Election” Session at ORD Camp

    Today Dan Sinker and I did a “Hack The Election” session at ORD Camp. I talked about my experience with Aldermanic Websites and he covered Chicago Mayoral Election Scorecard. Here’s my pic:

  • LAUNCH: AldermanicWebsites.com

    Today I launched a politics/ design/ technology/ humor site called AldermanicWebsites.Here’s the launch post (Comparing Aldermanic Hopefuls Online) and two snippets: Here’s something I worked on over Christmas vacation: AldermanicWebsites. It is a fun/ manic little Web site that “contains links to and reviews of the Web sites, Facebook pages, Twitter accounts, and other Web…

  • PHOTO: Rahm Emanuel Announcing His Candidacy for Chicago Mayor

    I took a relatively widely used photo of Rahm Emanuel today. The image is licensed under Creative Commons and was used widely by publications covering Emanuel’s successful campaign for Mayor. Here are some examples:

  • POLITICAL AD: Make Hoffman Your Constant

    I made this ad for election day. It’s meant to be an homage to an ad I did with my Juggernautco partner Jonny Stepping back in November 1992: