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John Geraci lives in NYC where he is Head of New York Operations for faberNovel. He co-founded Outside.in, started DIYcity, and likes innovation, disruption and starting new things. For more about him, visit johngeraci.com.
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Category Archives: Cities
Speaking on a Panel Tonight on Parallel Urbanism
I got so busy with other stuff last week that I only managed to post here once, on Monday. Now I’ve got several things I want to blog about that are all falling off my blogging plate. Hopefully I’ll get … Continue reading
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A Video of Me Talking About Cities and Technology
As I mentioned in my previous post, Dana Karwas and Gabe Winer interviewed me last week as part of a video series they are doing on new ideas. The video is of me talking about cities and local communities, and … Continue reading
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City-User Interaction: Looking Beyond the Smartphone
Last night I did a video interview for a project Gabriel Weiner and Dana Karwas are putting together. As we were talking in between segments, Gabe and I got into an interesting discussion about smartphones and what’s next. The smartphone, … Continue reading
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Let’s Talk About the Real ‘Taxi of Tomorrow’
I was exited this morning to get an email about the results from NYC’s “Taxi of Tomorrow” contest. Wow, I thought, that is so cool – NYC is holding contests about what taxis are going to be like in the … Continue reading
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Want to Revolutionize City Traffic? Open a Cafe In Your Neighborhood
High-speed buses, Electric cars, smart parking, taxi sharing – there are lots of innovative ideas being dreamed up and put into action to reinvent city traffic and turn it into something manageable and sustainable. A full 177 approaches as of … Continue reading
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Cities: You Don’t Have To Be NYC, SF Or DC To Be On The Cutting Edge Of Tech
Hello mid-sized cities out there. Have you seen what Baltimore is doing lately with civic tech? Formerly best-known for being the place where The Wire was filmed, it suddenly seems to be outpacing a lot other, bigger, more fashionable cities … Continue reading
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HCI, Politics, and the City Workshop
Eric Paulos, Professor of HCI at Carnegie Mellon, sends me info on an interesting-sounding workshop he’s co-hosting in Vancouver in May, called HCI, Politics, and the City: engaging urban grassroots movements for reflection and action. Here’s what their announcement says: … Continue reading
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A Barrier to Use For Civic Apps, And How to Overcome It
When the iPhone first came out, and I grasped the idea of apps – little bits of technology that went with you wherever you went, that knew where you were, who you were and what was around you – I … Continue reading
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Microtransportation is the Future of Getting Around Cities
For my birthday last year, my wife got me a Xootr – one of those kick scooters just like the kind you see kids riding everywhere, but for adults. I almost returned it. I just couldn’t see myself using it. … Continue reading
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The Local/Civic Scene is Ripe for Incubation
Last fall, I started working on an idea with a colleague about creating a local and civic web-oriented incubator, sort of a DIYcity revamped for 2011. We met once a week and drilled down on ideas as to what would … Continue reading
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