A track from 1999 with Solaire doing vocals. Took a beat from Olivier Greve and messed with it.

spring me down 

with your touch (extract)

Credits for all of this track go to Olivier Greve in 1999. Enjoy!

yellow sex

la la beat

Experimenting with sound again after a long haitus. Don't expect music. Inspired by M.E.S.H. and others.

untitled

Interview with executive director of betaNYC discussing civic technology past and present in NYC

0:14 - Introductions Noel Hidalgo  - executive director beta.NYC
1:16 - How Noel became an open data advocate / his history 
2:00 - beginnings of NYC civic hacker community
3:21 - Haley Cooper Rider - meet up based around question of what is open government ? 
3:58 - Open NYC Meetup becomes Open NY Forum
4:28 - Kind of people getting involved 
5:15 - Rebranded as Beta.NYC - http://betanyc.us/ 
5:24 - Beta NYC helped create city's open data law 
6:00 - BetaNYC - joins Code for America - Brigade Program - discussion covers BP
8:10 - Hurdles, challenges, wins 
10:00 - Peoples roadmap for digital NYC
12:25 - City's analytics officer redefines data as being human readable 
13:37 - Tools developed by community getting most use/reuse 
            http://Data.beta.nyc
            http://talk.beta.nyc - community 
            https://www.citygram.nyc/  
15:58 - Citygram in the perspective of Everyblock, Fixmystreet, SeeClickFix types of services. 311 services. 
18:50 - Data found at 2 repositories: http://data.beta.nyc +  http://data.cityofnewyork.us
19:30 - Data advocacy program 
21:10 - Teaching internal government to use civic tech platforms  
22:10 - Community boards, land-use decisions, licensing and permitting 
23:45 - NYC Civic Innovation Fellows Program - undergraduates taught civic tech, data and design and then embedded in community boards 
25:15 - What are community boards? 
26:35 - Do community boards have gender/age balance? Are new members voted in frequently? 
29:00 - Manhattan recent call to change/redesign concept of community boards vs Brooklyn
30:25 - Are community boards the same model in different US cities? 
32:57 - How are you funded? 
34:02 - Final thoughts - influencers coming into civic tech. space in NYC. NYC BigApps http://bigapps.nyc/p/, co-working specifically for civic tech. activistis, civic hall - http://civichall.org/, center for social innovation - http://nyc.socialinnovation.org/, transition towards civic tech. entrepreneurs , data & society http://www.datasociety.net/ 


Interview with executive director of  betaNYC, Noel Hidalgo on civic technology and NYC

some older messing around...just testing out this platform

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Amy Garcia our friend just add-libbed this....she's far more talented than we are.....go girl

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yeah we sucked at arrangement, but was fun making this anyway

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track by olivier greve, (partner in crime back in the days)

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