Map where tweets are coming from and you might get some context about those places or even those 140-character messages. That’s the idea behind Twittervision, a new project inspired by the unWIREd unconference put on by the Greater Baltimore Technology Council in August. It’s a collection of files cataloging city residents’ geotagged Twitter messages from [...]

Growing the pie, a conversation with Tom Kuegler [CityBizList]: “Any ecosystem works because all its pieces function together.” (Be sure to read our interview with Tom Kuegler.) Fresh Relief for Baltimore’s Food Deserts [Bloomberg Businessweek]: “[Baltimarket] allows shoppers to order groceries online from home or attend sessions at a local public library where they can receive [...]

Photo credit: Greg Pearson Baltimore appears positioned to take advantage of its open data initiative this year. At least, that was the feeling communicated in the “lightning talk” given by city CIO Chris Tonjes on Friday at this weekend’s unWIREd unconference. “We haven’t stopped our commitment to open data,” Tonjes said. “We just need to [...]

The Greater Baltimore Technology Council announced last week that its Groundwork data hackathon has been rescheduled until sometime “likely in late September.” As Sharon Paley wrote on the GBTC website: Some very nice people (of the state and federal variety) with access to extremely important (but not yet open) data, heard about Groundwork and proposed that they [...]