Author: chris montgomery

Old City/Northern Liberties: North Third Street Officially Renamed to N3RD Street

May 22, 2014chris montgomery

After several years of incubation, Philadelphia’s technology and design community has been officially commemorated by the City of Philadelphia with the renaming of North Third Street to “N3RD Street.” N3RD Street is a play on

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Technically Philly: GitHub an Ideal Platform for City’s Open Data

April 16, 2014chris montgomery

Since he took up the position of the City of Philadelphia’s chief data officer in late 2012, Mark Headd has pushed for the city to release its data on GitHub, the popular software sharing and

The Dallas Opera's performance of Tod Machover's sci-fi opera "Death and the Powers" was simulcast to 10 cities across the globe.

Technically Philly: Sci-fi opera reaches far, misses

February 25, 2014chris montgomery and tub10245

Opera Philadelphia hosted the first-ever live global simulcast of an opera this past Sunday at the Franklin Institute. The Dallas Opera performed Tod Machover’s science-fiction opera “Death and the Powers” live in Dallas. Dallas streamed

Technically Philly: Hacking for the civically-minded

February 19, 2014chris montgomery and tub10245

Geeklist recently hosted its fifth annual worldwide civic hackathon in the #hack4good series. The group of Philadelphia hackers gathered at Impact Hub in West Kensington to participate in this event occurring simultaneously in over 50