Source: Forbes Magazine http://www.forbes.com/sites/sashagalbraith/2013/06/19/got-potholes-theres-an-app-and-service-for-that/ Are potholes jeopardizing your coffee (and your hubcaps) during the morning commute? How about graffiti, tarnishing storefronts in your neighborhood? Or do you wonder who in the bowels of City Hall to contact to get an overflowing public trash can emptied? PublicStuff is your solution, for all of the above andRead… Read more »

One of the best communicators I know is my podiatrist. Any time I see him, he’s quick, precise, and I’m immediately better. Here’s some of the things he does. Years ago I met him, he noticed my book. “Tocqueville? Democracy in America? I haven’t read that since high school.” “TJ?” “Yup.” In ten seconds, heRead… Read more »

As many of my open data friends know, yesterday the government launched its new open data portal to great fanfare. While there is much to talk about there – something I will dive into tomorrow – that was not the only thing that happened yesterday. Indeed, I did a lot of media yesterday between flightsRead… Read more »

By Bob Gourley From: http://ctolink.us/16GZFF7 SpaceCurve Raises $10M Series B Financing Brings Unmatched Performance to Big Data Applications and Services SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 18, 2013– SpaceCurve, the creator of a new big data platform designed to meet the increasing volume, velocity and variety demands of data in real time, today announced it has raised a $10MRead… Read more »

Congressional Hearing Scheduled for June 26. View this message in your browser. I’m sharing this message from America’s Charities Save the CFC coalition. The changes to the CFC proposed by OPM would eliminate one of the best leadership development opportunities in the Federal government, the loaned executive program, without a single bit of discussion byRead… Read more »

I find this stuff so you don’t have to: Taming the Python – geting started programming on your Raspberry Pi Battle for the planet of the APIs Returning to Free Software: A Guide Robots and Robber Barons – NYTimes.com via @euan Onion Pi – Make a Raspberry Pi into a Anonymizing Tor Proxy! Why JavaRead… Read more »

By Bob Gourley If you are an enterprise technologist the driving factors in your technology selections are probably the discriminating functionality of the technology you are looking at mixed with factors like cost, simplicity, ability to work with your legacy environment, and overall ability to position your organization for success. Most enterprise CTOs also payRead… Read more »