http://www.gaboosh.com/blog/2010/03/the-scalable-open-government/ Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:40:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.gaboosh.com/blog/2010/03/the-scalable-open-government/comment-page-1/#comment-1221 Mark Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:35:38 +0000 http://www.gaboosh.com/blog/?p=269#comment-1221 I particularly like your point about connecting data points to form meaningful information for humans - based on road closings, subway issues and the weather, what is the best way to get from A to B? This makes me think of tools like <a href="http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/" rel="nofollow">Yahoo! Pipes</a> or even <a href="http://www.wolframalpha.com/" rel="nofollow">Wolfram|Alpha</a> that connect data to actually mean something. I particularly like your point about connecting data points to form meaningful information for humans – based on road closings, subway issues and the weather, what is the best way to get from A to B? This makes me think of tools like Yahoo! Pipes or even Wolfram|Alpha that connect data to actually mean something.

]]> http://www.gaboosh.com/blog/2010/03/the-scalable-open-government/comment-page-1/#comment-1219 Jeremy Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:43:04 +0000 http://www.gaboosh.com/blog/?p=269#comment-1219 I'm not sure that the needs to be corporate sponsorship of data feeds in order for them to be sustainable. I think we need more accountability at a micro-level. I know that the last couple of years there have been sizable budget cuts. But, in a normal economy, there is money floating around. And, there is a lot of waste. Have I ever told you guys about the project we bid on at Modern Creative for the MBTA? It involved 10, 52 inch flat screens that were installed in South Station and then sat there... never turned on. Because what to do with them got stuck in gridlock. There was like 3 mil earmarked for the project and they never did anything. I think really useful sites would go down the road of this site that I helped build http://www.themoneytrail.org/. I’m not sure that the needs to be corporate sponsorship of data feeds in order for them to be sustainable. I think we need more accountability at a micro-level. I know that the last couple of years there have been sizable budget cuts. But, in a normal economy, there is money floating around. And, there is a lot of waste. Have I ever told you guys about the project we bid on at Modern Creative for the MBTA? It involved 10, 52 inch flat screens that were installed in South Station and then sat there… never turned on. Because what to do with them got stuck in gridlock. There was like 3 mil earmarked for the project and they never did anything. I think really useful sites would go down the road of this site that I helped build http://www.themoneytrail.org/.

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