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InJersey

Will Woodbridge Township Elect a Mayor on November 8 or will it Affirm a Caesar? How ironic that after working for three governors, it was Jon Corzine (of all people) who showed John McCormac the door at the NJ Statehouse back in 1996; thus giving rise to McCormac’s mayoral aspirations. As bad as Corzine’s financial practices appear to be, ala the latest news coverage about his stewardship at MF Global Holdings, Corzine found he could do without the further services of NJ Treasurer, John McCormac. Mac doesn’t have much to say about his tenure in Trenton these days, especially his artful handling of the bonds.

Hyperlocal Journalism, Meet BuddyPress

How InJersey.com is using WordPress MU and BuddPress to create a new model for citizen journalist engagement in New Jersey. Presented at WordCamp NYC on Nov. 14, 2009.

http://geonames.wordpress.com/2010/01/18/new-york-times-data-api-with-geonames/

New York Times data API with GeoNames « GeoNames Blog

The New York Times is adding GeoNames data to their subject headings and making it available as Linked Open Data under a cc-by license. For ages the NYT has indexed articles with keywords (tags/subject headings) from an extensive vocabulary. Thousands of these keywords have now been mapped to their respective geonameId. This will help for instance enhance the search function with additional information from geonames like lat/lng for a reverse geocoded article search. The vocabulary is available under a cc-by license in various ways and formats.