links for 2009-09-26

  • VanTrash – “VanTrash helps you manage your neighbourhood garbage schedule in Vancouver more effectively. You can find out your garbage schedule, download the schedule to your calendar or set a reminder to your email. Never forget to take the garbage out again. “
  • Vancouver’s Open Data Portal: Use it, or Lose it. | eaves.ca – David Eaves thanks those involved in opening up city data in Vancouver and calls for more support/ideas/action on the now available data.
  • SAHANA | Free and Open Source Disaster Management System – “Sahana is a Free and Open Source Disaster Management system. It is a web based collaboration tool that addresses the common coordination problems during a disaster from finding missing people, managing aid, managing volunteers, tracking camps effectively between Government groups, the civil society (NGOs) and the victims themselves.”
  • Germany’s Election and the Digital Dark Ages by Clay Risen, Washington Post – “With Germany’s national elections Sept. 27, the campaigns are in high gear. But for all the leading parties’ talk of digital politics, their Web strategies are just that: talk. Their blogs are Potemkin Web sites — the posts are just rehashed news releases — and their Facebook groups often have fewer friends than the average American teenager.”

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