I personally have my doubts on the merits and sustainability of obsessive focus on the local, and worse, on the latest born of ‘cool’ beats, the ‘hyperlocal’… But the World Economic Forum’s proposal for “a new global, independent news and information service whose role is to inform, educate and improve […]
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For lack of GOP message guru Frank Lutz, it was a project with no name. And yet it was one of the (many) precedents set during an historic election. Commissioned by Obama for America campaign, GIS consultant Karsten Vennemann used opensource components, including OpenLayers, to map voter registration in battleground […]
Wired posted this article about the many expanding uses of Twitter…including many examples of inanimate objects (lights, washing machines, computers) and living organisms (plants) triggering an auto-twitter to a recipient: Thanks to its open-ended design and a thriving user community, Twitter is fast outgrowing its roots as a simple, easy-to-use […]
We are proud to announce the next release of the bilumi platform and website. Have a look and let us know what you think! New features include: Sort companies by ratings (under “Browse Options” on the browse page) Manage your personal interest portfolio (under “My Stuff”–>”My Portfolio”) Quick rate and […]
How can consumer concern about business practices be leveraged for systemic change? Progress may require us to speak the language of industry; to provide detailed reports describing what customers will pay for improvement. Rahala Alam begins her internship with bilumi.org today. She is investigating how companies value the concerns of […]