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GreenRiver.org completed its work with the Open Society...

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:31:00 -0400

GreenRiver.org completed its work with the Open Society Institute, a nonprofit founded by George Soros whose mission involves protecting and improving the lives of people in marginalized communities. In collaboration with NYC Design studio Sway Design, we developed an application showcasing OSI’s meta-analysis of thousands of studies of HIV interventions. These are studies of projects meeting the needs of women and girls in developing countries facing the AIDS pandemic. The analysis also highlights the gaps in knowledge remaining to be addressed.

GreenRiver.org welcomes Todd Cesere to our team! Here he is...

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:11:00 -0400

GreenRiver.org welcomes Todd Cesere to our team! Here he is falling out of the locust tree behind the Key Bank where we walk GreenRIver.org dogs Bailey and Daphne. This is where we found him ;-)

GreenRiver.org celebrates its 10 year anniversary and New...

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:46:55 -0500

GreenRiver.org celebrates its 10 year anniversary and New Year’s Eve with a bang: Fireworks over the meadow in Green River village in Guilford, VT!

OSI Project Begins: Evidence for HIV and AIDS Interventions for Women and Girls

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:31:59 -0500

GreenRiver.org begins its work with the Open Society Institute, a nonprofit founded by George Soros whose mission involves protecting and improving the lives of people in marginalized communities. We will be working with NY Design shop Sway Design to build an application showcasing OSI’s meta-analysis of thousands of studies of HIV interventions. These are studies of projects meeting the needs of women and girls in developing countries facing the AIDS pandemic. The analysis also highlights the gaps in knowledge or programming remaining to be addressed.

Sen. Leahy talks about our work from the floor of the Senate

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:53:19 -0400

Sen. Leahy talks about our work from the floor of the Senate:

Ben and I are humbled by the kind words of Sen. Leahy (D-VT):

“The public’s right to know is a cornerstone of our democracy. By using technology, a site such as (ThisWeKnow.org) can provide citizens with access to data that is relevant to them and that can enable and encourage them to make informed decisions. This site is designed to make what was once a difficult and time-consuming process into a faster and more streamlined experience….

We congratulate them for all of their hard work and their public spirit, and encourage them to continue their efforts to promote a more accessible and open government.”

Wow! Thanks so much, Senator!

Ben, Michael & Derrish (of Intellidimension) from...

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:20:00 -0400

Ben, Michael & Derrish (of Intellidimension) from today’s Reformer article. And no, contrary to popular belief, blue shirts with horizontal stripes are not our uniform around here.

Your government, online! - Brattleboro Reformer

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:14:00 -0400

Your government, online! - Brattleboro Reformer:

ThisWeKnow.org was featured in a front-page articles in today’s Reformer. If you haven’t yet voted for the site, please consider doing so. Click here to Vote.

ThisWeKnow.org Selected as a Finalist in Apps for America Contest

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:23:30 -0400

ThisWeKnow.org Selected as a Finalist in Apps for America Contest:

We made the cut! Our site, ThisWeKnow.org was selected as one of three finalists in the Apps For America 2 contest. We are very excited and honored. The next phase of the competition is voted on by the online community. So please cast your vote.

Michael and I will be traveling to DC to present ThisWeKnow.org at the Gov 2.0 Expo on September 8th. This is also where the winner will be announced.

Be sure to check out the other 46 application. A lot of great work was done because of this contest.

We entered sunlight lab’s Apps for America 2: The Data.gov...

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:19:35 -0400

We entered sunlight lab’s Apps for America 2: The Data.gov Challenge competition last Friday with our Semantic Web application This We Know The competition is to build an application which helps promote government transparency and empowers our citizens. We’ve been getting some great feedback on the app on Twitter, and have been really enjoying working on it.

RDF databases used for storing Semantic Web data are a great technology for integreating disparate databasesand making inferences across them. We built the Ruby on Rails software, and another Brattleboro based company, Intellidimension, focused on loading their RDF database. Ellis at Sway Design designed the screens.

Take a look and let us know your suggestions for further development.

After work on Friday Aaron, Maya, Michael & I took advantage...

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:07:00 -0400

After work on Friday Aaron, Maya, Michael & I took advantage of the unusually swelled West River for some fairly radical (at least for us overly sedate tech workers) whitewater canoeing. Aaron & Maya (shown above) piloted an old junker we convinced the canoe rental place to let us take, while Michael & I put his extra wide fishing canoe through its paces. Two hours, ten miles, two near-flips, countless scratches, and one head-on collision with a unfortunately placed boulder later we made it all the way down to the Connecticut River.

GreenRiver.org Releases Two New Web Apps

Wed, 27 May 2009 16:52:00 -0400

We’ve completed two applications this May. Ben Tucker, our Director of Technology, headed up a small team building The Portfolio Place, a project of the National Center at Northeastern University. This application builds video samples and resumes about professional sign language interpreters. Aaron Michal, the Software Architect here at GreenRIver.org, headed up the team programming a redesigned version of Sitebuilder. Sitebuilder is a tool the Authors Guild developed for authors. It allows authors to build and update their websites.

Social Media for Social Justice?

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:29:12 -0400

It’s been a month since the SXSW interactive conference in Austin, and the event continues to gnaw at me. All of us can’t help but notice that the content on facebook, tumblr, and twitter is centered on us: we’re busy tweeting about ourselves, making virtual ‘friends’, accumulating followers, so on. But it’s not until you put 7,000 technologists in a gigantic convention center that you experience the brick and mortar impact of a virtual culture built around self promotion. During my week in Austin, with the exception of Lawrence Lessig’s presentation on political corruption, I didn’t discover any talks about how to use our technology to improve our relationship with one another and our planet. It feels like the social media explosion is about how to focus the amazing benefits of technology on ourselves. This makes it very hard not to be cynical. Building monuments to ourselves, and optimizing their search engine rank, is not the way to create a better future.

An Information Warfare Monitor project of The University of...

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:53:33 -0400

An Information Warfare Monitor project of The University of Toronto Munk Center and The SecDev Group have exposed Ghost Net, a cyber espionage network targeting the Tibetan government in exile, as well as many other targets. The report is titled Tracking GhostNet: Investigating a Cyber Espionage Network. Kudos to the great work done by Ronald J. Deibert, Greg Walton, Nart Villeneuve and Rafal A. Rohozinski uncovering this network, and to the wisdom of the Dali Lama for initiating their investigation.

Echospace.org has launched. This web application is used to...

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:21:41 -0400

Echospace.org has launched. This web application is used to construct educational programs and resources in place- and culture-based learning for students, teachers and communities. Working with Designer Ellis Neder of Sway Design, we built this Ruby on Rails application for the ECHO partnership. The partnership consists of the Alaska Native Heritage Center, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Iñupiat Heritage Center / North Slope Borough. Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, New Bedford ECHO Project, and Peabody Essex Museum. Log in and give the application a try!

Check us out at SXSW 2009!

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:11:00 -0500

Check us out at SXSW 2009!:

We’re looking forward to being in Austin Texas for SXSW and to our participation on the panel Remixing the Museum Exhibition with Steven Alvarez (Alaska Native Heritage Center), Jim Forrest (Peabody Essex Museum), and Ellis Neder, (Sway Design). The museum application we’ve coded will launch at the conference.

Sneaker Search Optimization - GreenRiver.org has a new sign...

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:27:15 -0500

Sneaker Search Optimization - GreenRiver.org has a new sign adorning our alleyway entrance. Hopefully this will increase our StreetRank™.

Video from our New Year’s Eve Fireworks Spectacular

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:47:00 -0500

Video from our New Year’s Eve Fireworks Spectacular

Making chili for tomorrow’s GreenRiver.org New...

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:46:00 -0500

Making chili for tomorrow’s GreenRiver.org New Year’s Eve party

The Green River meadow, December 12th, 2008.

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:29:09 -0500

The Green River meadow, December 12th, 2008.

Pulpit Mountain, Green River Village, December 12, 2008

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:27:58 -0500

Pulpit Mountain, Green River Village, December 12, 2008