Super interesting post from O’Reilly’s Vanessa Fox on the (un)findability of government data, which is an essential underpinning of the MashableCity effort. Although Fox’s focus in the article is on search, I think there is also a role here for a concept browsing approach that unifies data from the user perspective, rather than silo-ing it [...]

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In California, a Massachusetts native has come up with a novel way to take whole cities and counties over into alternative energy sourcing using a technique called Community Choice Aggregation, or CCA. It requires state legislation to enable, but once it happens, municipalities have an effective way to negotiate and buy their power from any [...]

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