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[oreillymedia-blog]

Solid is about the beginning of something different, the collision of software and hardware into a new combined medium that will be wielded by people (or teams) that understand both, of bits and atoms uniting in the same intellectual space.

- Jim Stogdill

Why Solid? Why Now? http://oreil.ly/1galFfk

[singulus]

... commoditization of the social layer."

"Read That Again, Only. Very Slowly ... 

Our Thanks To Edd Dumbill ♥ , O'Reilly's Radar ♥, And Readability ♥ ...

[politicopia-blog]

How data and open government are transforming NYC

"In God We Trust," tweetedNew York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg this month. "Everyone else, bring data."

Bloomberg, the billionaire founder of Bloomberg L.P., is now in his third term as mayor of the Big Apple. During his tenure, New York City has embraced a more data-driven approach to governing, even when the results of that data-driven transparency show a slump in city services.

This should be no surprise to anyone familiar with the mission statement of his financial data company:

Bloomberg started out with one core belief: that bringing transparency to capital markets through access to information could increase capital flows, produce economic growth and jobs, and significantly reduce the cost of doing business

To reshape that mission statement for New York City, one might reasonably suggest that Bloomberg's data-driven approach to government is founded upon that belief that bringing transparency to government through access to information could increase capital flows, produce economic growth and jobs, and significantly reduce the cost of the business of government... Read the complete and original post at http://radar.oreilly.com