Category Archives for Community Resource Data

New paper: the Value of Declaring Your Values

A few years ago, shortly after I’d published “Averting Tragedy of the Resource Directory Anti-Commons” in The Cambridge Handbook on Commons Research Innovations, Angie Raymond asked if I would contribute a chapter to a book about environmental knowledge commons.  Governance … Continue reading

02. December 2025 by greg.bloom@gmail.com
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Governing the Resource Directory Data Commons

Even for a blog that gets a new post like once a year or less, it’s a bit awkward that I haven’t actually posted on here about the main thing I’ve been working on for the past 10 years – … Continue reading

12. December 2023 by greg.bloom@gmail.com
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Drawing APIs: evolving our visual vocabulary

About a year ago, I posted over at the Sunlight Foundation’s blog about a facilitation tool with which I had been experimenting: I find that it’s harder than it should be to have focused and effective conversations with non-technical people … Continue reading

23. June 2015 by greg.bloom@gmail.com
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Annual Reporting: (2013) Residency in DC

For much of 2013, I traveled to sites where I could learn firsthand about cooperative organization, co-productive labor, and the commons. Some of this work was through formal ‘residency’ programming designed to support social research and creative practice. Some of … Continue reading

04. January 2014 by greg.bloom@gmail.com
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Annual Reporting: (2012) Digital Justice in the District

Throughout most of 2012, I worked on a couple of projects that I’d started while at Bread for the City. (I left Bread in March of 2012, but in both of these projects I saw the promise of opportunity to … Continue reading

04. January 2014 by greg.bloom@gmail.com
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Towards a Community Data Commons

Thanks to Code for America for inviting me to submit this paper as a chapter of their new book, Beyond Transparency: Open Data and the Civic Innovation. I’m at CfA’s summit in San Francisco this week, and I’ll be posting … Continue reading

15. October 2013 by greg.bloom@gmail.com
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About the community resource directory data problem…

Over the past few years I’ve been thinking about what I call, wonkily, ‘the community resource directory data problem’ — by which I mean: information about the services that exist in a community, and the challenges posed by the collection … Continue reading

15. October 2013 by greg.bloom@gmail.com
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