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Note this. - Chris Amico

This is, I think, a healthy thing for any journalist to do, and especially for pundits and analysts. - Chris Amico

Take note of this. - Chris Amico

This would be my fiance's project. - Chris Amico

Yes! (policy aside, imagine what journalists could do with this) - Chris Amico

If you're in DC and want to help me build a federal blog aggregator (or something cooler), come hang out on Saturday. - Chris Amico

Note that this is on the Guardian's Data Blog. Kevin Anderson is helping his users participate. Awesomeness. - Chris Amico

A note here, in case it isn't obvious: This story originated with data the NY Times gathered and released with their story on food stamps over the weekend. We remixed it so we could see how different community types were affected. - Chris Amico

A lot of professional orgs seem to be in this situation. Derek has good starting points for large, tough discussions that have to happen. - Chris Amico

Geocode addresses within a Google Spreadsheet. Neat trick. - Chris Amico

Finally got Git serving on Webfaction with this tutorial. Sometimes git is harder than it should be. - Chris Amico

Yes, do all of this. Actually, none of it should be that technically daunting or expensive. It's mostly a change in stated goals, from "news" to "resource". - Chris Amico

Wish I'd read this post a year ago. Or six months ago. Or last month. - Chris Amico

Rick does a masterful twitter round-up using an old tool I built in two hours a year ago. - Chris Amico

Sharing this mostly because it's a good round-up of the chatter about Obama's visit to China. - Chris Amico

Rick does some smart thinking out loud on what it takes to create a unique sense of place and serve a community. Shorter, Maoist version: Serve the people. - Chris Amico

Yes! - Chris Amico

Let me endorse this with a journalism spin: We do better when we acknowledge what our competitors do well, and do our best to learn from it and share those lessons. Nice to see Jacob giving a nod to Rails. - Chris Amico

Agreed, with one caveat: I'd rather have PDFs than file cabinets. But I think we're mostly past that choice, and it is time to speak up more loudly that PDF and Flash are closed formats that obfuscate data more than they illuminate. Also, note the comments from Ben Welsh and Adrian Holovaty. - Chris Amico

Hey look, good news. See? It does exist. - Chris Amico

I like the way this project is putting out code: Build a tool, release it, see what happens. They're not only getting tools out there faster; they're building isolated tools that can be used independently by completely unrelated projects. Awesome all around. - Chris Amico

Very cool. GovAR (and augmented-reality in general) is still one of those things I'm interested in theory but haven't entirely grasped yet. Interesting as this is, would anyone out there use it? - Chris Amico

Agreed. Nice, simple solution here, too. - Chris Amico

Patchwork Nation + ProPublica = Awesomeness. :-D - Chris Amico

Pretty much... - Chris Amico

Really just saving this because I keep looking it up - Chris Amico

Here's to honesty in politics, whatever else it says about our beloved system. - Chris Amico

I pretty much agree with all of this, based on my limited exposure to the world of web development. Smart thinking, as usual, from Digidave. - Chris Amico

I have my own answers as to why I learned Django, but these are all good, especially for more seasoned developers. - Chris Amico

I have my own answers as to why I learned Django, but these are all good, especially for more seasoned developers. - Chris Amico

"For the past 8 years, Hu Jintao has been the good guy maintaining his commitment to some kind of vague “first among equals” system in the CCP high command. It was clear by yesterday’s performance that this was Hu’s “F–k it, I’ve got two years left and this is MY house” moment. Mao suit. Deng limo. “Speaking to you live from the top of Tiananmen, M—–f—–s!” Hu may have taken the Kim Jong-Il puppet from Team America as his fashion role model, but the man did stand out. Especially after he made the rest of the boys dress in polyester business suits and red polka dot ties. Only Zhu Rongji escaped, donning a pair of fashion shades which made him look like the stoner cousin in a wedding photo." This is Jeremiah at his best. Upon reading this, I immediately put the Hangover on my Netflix queue. - Chris Amico