“The Rogers Park Dinner Crawl: A World of Taste will introduce participants to 16 restaurants in Rogers Park. Each participant will be given a “passport” containing a brief description of each dish they will be sampling along with the restaurant name and type.

“Vans will be circulating around four stops, picking up passengers and shuttling them to their next location. At each stop passengers will walk short distances to each restaurant at that particular location. Once each restaurant has been visited, participants wait for a van to take them to their next location.”

“Last week GovTrack launched an experiment using MixedInk, the collaborative writing tool, to see how members of the GovTrack community could come together to write a joint letter to congressmen. A large problem facing Congress is their inability to keep up with constituent communication, as the rise of electronic communications to Congress has far outpaced the increases in their office budgets. One of the many ways to address this problem is to have constituents come together on a single letter, an aggregated communication. Petitions were the aggregated letter of the past. In the future, we will see the letter actually being written collaboratively, and this is what GovTrack’s first-of-its-kind experiment is about.”

“Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology.

“Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognised. We want you to tell the world about these unsung heroines. Entrepreneurs, innovators, sysadmins, programmers, designers, games developers, hardware experts, tech journalists, tech consultants. The list of tech-related careers is endless.”

‘”Sometimes, they pay [for minutes] with cups of coins,” Camp said.’

“John Fordham looks at the key moments in jazz that defined music history” – They’re on #6 now; looks like they’re starting “at the beginning”…

“Where are you taking me?” “Into the Twitterverse” … “Watching TV with my cat” … “I forgot how much I like pickles” … “At the free clinic… Uh oh!”