Booze News: watchdog blog reporting on Liquor Board meetings launches [Links]

After scorching Liquor Board audit, a watchdog blog is launched [Baltimore Brew]: “[T]he Community Law Center (which has been representing neighborhoods before the Liquor Board for decades) decided to assign an attorney to attend the board’s weekly meetings at City Hall and blog about what she sees.”
Social Madness: Meet the Baltimore-area participants [Baltimore Business Journal]: “32 Baltimore-area companies are ready for your votes in the head-to-head social media battle.”
Hunt Valley software developer launches first product in big data marketplace [BmoreMedia]: “Since last year, Revelytix has been transitioning into the big data space, and the release of Loom Dataset Management for Hadoop is the culmination of that process.”
Recapping Hack for Change Baltimore [gb.tc]: “Hack for Change Baltimore was extra lucky, because in addition to the great ideas pitched Saturday morning, we were also visited by Baltimore’s Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake … and Chris Tonjes, the city’s Chief Information Officer.”
More than half of American adults now have smartphones, survey says [Baltimore Sun]: “A report released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center says 56% of all American adults now own a smartphone while more than a third still use conventional cellphones. It also found nearly 10% of U.S. adults don’t own a mobile phone at all.”