“In the course of our work in the past two years, we’ve worked with city leaders — department heads, council members, technology developers, policy makers, and so on in each of the cities we cover. We share some of what we’ve learned about data sharing in New York and other places below…. We really hope that this law — and the data published as a result of it — serve as an example for other municipalities.”

“It is perhaps useless to argue whether this is good or bad. Rather, the world is as it is. And Politico seems like a pretty credible version of what the world will be: obsessives everywhere in their particular narrow-focused areas of interest (“silos” is the modern information term), flashing ever more information, ever quicker, in ever shorter bites—the shorter you can make it, the more information there can be—to all the ships at sea.”

“1. How Do You Feel About the Economy?; 2. The Ebb and Flow of Movies; 3. One in 8 Million; 4. The Water Dance; 5. New York City Homicides Map; 6. Going to the End of the Line; 7. Casualties of War; 8. Passing the Torch: An Evolution of Form; 9. Inaugural Words – 1789 to the Present; 10. Fold-Ins, Past and Present”

Eric had a very even temperament. He was angelic. It’s hard to say much about Eric that isn’t close to him being an angel. He had a way about him — he was just a sweet guy.