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	<title>Matt Hampel &#124; matth.org</title>
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	<description>I'm Matt Hampel, a student in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.</description>
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		<title>Open Government and data in Detroit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are interested in either, both, or related subjects, please do get in touch: matthew.hampel@gmail.com
This post is way too long in coming, especially because I was disappointed to find no other like it when I googled those keywords earlier this year.
Some starting points: (hopefully I&#8217;ll be able to add more)
http://detroitwiki.org/Data_about_Detroit
http://datadrivendetroit.org/ (501c3, I&#8217;m interning there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matth.org/2010/03/19/open-government-and-data-in-detroit/</link>
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		<title>Lost Landscapes of Detroit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Rick Prelinger of the Prelinger Archives showed a collection of home movies, newsreels, and other film clips of Detroit he has collected and digitized. The audience at MOCAD had a lot of fun shouting out the names of places and people as they went by.
He handed out copies of the DVD and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matth.org/2010/02/16/lost-landscapes-of-detroit/</link>
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		<title>Civic wiki interface note-to-self</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Adding a link as a reference to a wiki page will automatically pull the organization that owns the link, the author, date published, etc.
So if you add: http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20090719/SUB01/907189993
The system will write:
 THIS JUST IN: Land bank authority getting off the ground. Crain&#8217;s Detroit. 19 July 2009.
Or something similar. It will not make you type this:
&#60;ref&#62;R. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matth.org/2010/01/30/civic-wiki-interface-note-to-self/</link>
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		<title>Class notes from today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wayne County&#8217;s version of anti-Kelo (actually pre-Kelo)
Dumbbell tenements from a great Columbia University interactive page on apartment houses
Detroit Historic District Commission has a page about each historic building, including dates significance was recognized. (can I get these in a shapefile?)
Readings from The Power of Place.
You can transfer air rights.


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		<link>http://matth.org/2010/01/28/class-notes-from-today/</link>
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		<title>Looking for an online application management system.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m looking for a tool that will let the Semester in Detroit program easily accept and process applications from students and community partners online.
Here are the basic features I&#8217;m looking for:

We can easily create an application with custom fields (Preferably with chunking. For example: personal information on one page, personal statement on the next, etc.)
Applicants [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matth.org/2010/01/27/looking-for-an-online-application-management-system/</link>
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		<title>Download every PDF linked from a page using Python.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to download every agenda posted on the Detroit City Council website, but they were in different folders. 
Happily, I there&#8217;s one page that lists all of them, so I wrote this short script:
import urllib2
import re
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup, SoupStrainer
import os
import time
# define the URL where all the links are:
url = "http://www.detroitmi.gov/legislative/CityClerk/2009add_cal.htm"
base_url = "http://www.detroitmi.gov/legislative/CityClerk/"
html [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matth.org/2010/01/21/download-every-pdf-linked-from-a-page-using-python/</link>
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		<title>Another unsupported claim from Wiki Government</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Similarly, when a policy problem is divided in smaller parts, so that it can be distributed and worked on by collaborative teams, the drive toward openness and innovation begins.&#8221; (Wiki Government 33).

That&#8217;s a huge claim just sitting in the open. My first quibble is about the adjective collaborative – what does it mean to have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matth.org/2010/01/09/another-unsupported-claim-from-wiki-government/</link>
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		<title>The rhetoric of Open Government</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the things I&#8217;m looking at in my thesis is the Open Government movement &#038; data culture, and I&#8217;m using some examples of published rhetoric to make sense of the field. As a member of the movement, the passages I come across generally seem straightforward, but this one stood out: 
“Whenever we confront a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matth.org/2010/01/09/the-rhetoric-of-open-government/</link>
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		<title>YES</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
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		<link>http://matth.org/2009/11/28/yes/</link>
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		<title>Too many great RC courses next semester</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lots of great courses in the Residential Courses for Winter &#8216;09. I&#8217;ll be in Detroit, so I won&#8217;t be able to take any of these, but here&#8217;s an abbreviated list:
Writing in the Real World: Best Practices of Journalism with Susan Rosegrant.
This intensive writing course is designed to give students a solid grounding in the tools [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matth.org/2009/11/12/too-many-great-rc-courses-next-semester/</link>
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