December 2009
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Open redistricting.
Once the Open Neighborhoods Project is set up, the collaborative neighborhoods will form the basis for a fair re-districting of electoral boundaries. Rather than a few people determining how votes are accumulated, the same tools that support complex online collaboration for neighborhoods will be used to openly and fairly correct distortions in how we elect our reps.
Districts can be determined...
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The Open Neighborhoods Project.
The Open Neighborhoods Project is an independent, crowd-sourced repository of neighborhood boundaries for the US. Three parts:
a web map for anyone to contribute their neighborhood boundary
tools to review and agglomerate different neighborhood outlines into commonly-accepted boundaries
a data repository of current and previous neighborhood boundaries for download and re-use, forming a...
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Dot Dot Dot, a collaborative diagramming tool.
Dot Dot Dot is a collaborative diagramming tool that embraces the messy nature of drawing out a process.
It’s more analogous to paper and pen tools than a fully-featured tool like OmniGraffle or Visio - think how Etherpad compares to Word.
But simplicity doesn’t mean Dot Dot Dot isn’t powerful:
Smart auto-layout tools allow you to focus on entering the diagram, not dragging...
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Csssearch, a CSS search engine.
Csssearch (pronounced “scchearch”) is the first CSS search engine.
While other search sites index the web’s content, Csssearch goes after the layout. Using some clever cascade-aware logic as it munches CSS files, the search tools give you the web in its non-semantic glory. Who cares about the content, let’s look at the layout!
Search in your web history, delicious...