Chris Stines is Planetizen's former Editor and the founder of Urban Insight, a leading digital agency. Chris has 25 years of experience in technology consulting and urban planning and has served as a consultant to public sector state, county, and local agencies, Fortune 500 private firms, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations.
CORE.GOV Sure Sounds Cool
David Flether's <a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0110120/">Government and Technology Weblog</a> frequently makes for great reading. Today he discusses <a href="https://www.core.gov/">CORE.GOV - Component Organization and Registration Environment</a>.<br /> <br /> CORE.gov uses the <a href="http://www.collab.net/products/enterprise_edition/index.html">CollabNet SourceCast</a> tool for sharing and tracking business and technical components available as part of the Federal Enterprise Architecture.<br /> <br /> Now I'm not sure I entirely understand this, since it is heavily buzzworded: <br /> <br /> <blockquote><img src="https://www.
A Pollution Credit Trader Gone Bad
The designer of Southern California's innovative pollution credit market is arrested for fraud.
Global Warming: It's The Real Thing
Climate experts say global warming is really, really real -- really.
The Wal-Mart Effect
AlterNet offers a primer on the potentially negative impacts of Wal-Mart, using Chicago as a case study.
Random Searches On Trains
If Boston commuter-train passenger searches are truly random, they will avoid the possibility of racial profiling.