The Bay Citizen's News Apps team has won a prize at the Knight Batten awards for innovation in journalism for our Bike Accident Tracker! Today's big winner was Storify, the social-media curation tool created by Hacks/Hacker's Burt Herman and others. Our partner site Texas Tribune, NPR's Andy Carvin and his Twitter community, Bloomberg Government and West Africa Democracy Radio also received prizes. The Bay Citizen was one of another four outlets to receive an honorable mention and a prize at ......
Thanks to all who came out this weekend for our first-ever hackathon! For those who missed it, our theme challenge was DataSF: find a dataset from the City of SF's online repo of public data and do something cool + useful with it. How To Improve DataSF? Before diving in, we had some great discussion on how to make this platform--and the open gov initiative everywhere--work better. Jay Nath (@Jay_Nath), the ......
Nine San Francisco mayoral candidates and more than 100 of the city's technophiles and "government 2.0" types gathered Thursday night for a tech-focused mayoral debate that started with a simple question: How would you use technology to fix the city? The Bay Citizen was invited by event organizer Summer of Smart to show off our Bike Accident Tracker at an "apps showcase" before the debate. Using public data and technology to approach messy ......
We're already knee-deep in coverage of San Francisco's high-profile, high-stakes mayoral race here at The Bay Citizen, and we're thrilled to announce one new way we're covering this momentous election. We are teaming up with Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, the Bay Area nonprofit dedicated to creating social change through digital culture, to present the Summer of Smart. It's a four-month experiment in urban innovation and open government revolving ......
A couple days after the Bay Citizen Bike Accidents Tracker launched, Steven Vance, a young blogger, hardcore biker, and urban planner in Chicago, released his own version for his city and gave us a nice shoutout for helping to inspire his tracker: Anywhere you've got a city with bikers, I think you'll find demand for this kind of vizualization and analysis. in the days after our launch, I saw retweets ......
