Mark Your Calendars! CyborgCamp will be ...

Join us this year in Vancouver, BC! CyborgCamp 2013 will happen this year  in Vancouver, BC! CyborgCamps have been held all over the US and Canada, and we’re looking at MIT in 2014! ! We’ll open up a registration page when we learn more about the venue capacity. What is CyborgCamp? CyborgCamp is an unconference about the future of the relationship between humans and...

InfoCamp Portland is Feb 16th, 2013!

Mark your calendars! InfoCamp Portland will happen again this year on February 16, 2013 at the UO White Stag building, in downtown Portland. I was invited to give the keynote this year and I couldn’t be more excited. Unconferences like this (approx 100 people) are awesome to meet interesting people at, and are great for really getting deep into concepts and ideas. What is...

CyborgCamp Seattle is this weekend on Se...

Want to attend an unconference on the future of humans and technology? CyborgCamp is back and it’s happening twice this year! CyborgCamp Portland is already sold out, but there is still some room at CyborgCamp Seattle if you’d like to attend! What is CyborgCamp? CyborgCamp is an unconference about the future of the relationship between humans and technology. We’ll discuss...

Come to Portland Data Viz #7! (NEW DATE)...

Portland Data Viz Meetup is Back! It’s time for another Portland Data Visualization Meetup! We’ll have three to four main presentations and networking time. We usually have some conversation and networking, so feel free to bring business cards and/or let people know if you’re hiring. (If you’d like to sponsor, see the section at the end of this post). This time, Geoloqi will...

Come to the Vibrant Data PDX Hackathon! ...

Imagine a world in which data becomes a personal asset that works on behalf of our personal interests and communities. Everyday, apps like yours could control how to send their data out into the world to circulate and bring back value to users. Certainly this would require a change in the way the world views data today, and in the infrastructure that enables it to flow freely while...

Geoloqi Open Data Hackathon at Upstart L...

Come hack on open gov datasets and Geoloqi! We moved into an new office space! We’re sharing it with Upstart Labs, a great new company from the founders of StepChange group (recently acquired by Dachis Group). We’ll have food and drinks, and plenty of interesting things to discuss and work on. The new office has two war rooms for planning and plenty of space for hacking...

Smallest Federated Wiki workshop with Wa...

About Interested in working with Ward Cunningham on his new wiki project? You can on Thursday, October 13th, 2011 at the Portland Incubator Experiment. Wiki-founder Ward Cunningham shared his idea of a Smallest Federated Wiki SFW during IndieWebCamp this June. In a few short weeks, he brought his idea to life and is inviting others to work with him on it. This is the second...

Real-Time Earthquakes and Technosocial S...

Geoloqi: 5.8 earthquake near Virginia on 8/23 1:51pm EDT. Depth: 6km A Sudden Jolt Currently I’m in Malmo, Sweden for a media evolution conference. I was asking some questions on Twitter when suddenly my “All Friends” timeline in Tweetdeck just exploded with tweets all about an earthquake in Virginia that was felt in New York. Earthquakes are one of the most...

An Introduction to Ward Cunningham’...

History Wiki-founder Ward Cunningham shared his idea of a Smallest Federated Wiki SFW during IndieWebCamp this June. In a few short weeks, he brought his idea to life and is inviting others to work with him on it! What is SFW? The Smallest Federated Wiki project wants to be small in the “easy to learn powerful ideas” version of small. It wants to be a wiki so that strangers...

CivicApps for Education Hackathon: A Rec...

On Sunday, May 22nd we held a CivicApps Hackathon at the Portland Incubator Experiment in partnership with the City of Portland, the Mayor’s Office, and Webvisions. The hackathon was dedicated exclusively to making mobile applications for education There was time in the morning for presentations from educators involved with the city, and brainstorming sessions and hacking in the...