This story originally appeared in the November 20, 2013 edition of Seven Days. It was one week after Super Typhoon Haiyan, and I was on a global team of volunteers performing emergency mapping work in [...]
Ever hear of crisis mapping? It's what you get when people scattered around the world use open-source digital cartography tools like OpenStreetMap to create detailed maps where they're needed (and absent) most: locations that have [...]
It's been a busy month for "hacking" stuff in the Burlington area. First there was HackVT, then StoryhackVT and, most recently, the first Hack the Stacks at Fletcher Free Library in Burlington, put on by Code for BTV. Code [...]
Earlier this year, Akamai released a report that said Vermont had the fastest internet speed in the country. It seemed surprising, given that there are still parts of this state that can't get internet at [...]
