Wednesday, October 24, 2012
This Week's Issue: High-Tech Cops and Henry Rollins
In this week's Tech Jam-celebrating issue of Seven Days, now available on your newsstands and your Internets...
- Is it necessarily a bad thing when a locally-owned, homegrown tech company sells to an out-of-state corporation?
- Burlington Police had an expensive, ineffective computer system for tracking crime. So Chief Mike Schirling coded a better platform himself.
- Speaking of coding, this blogger took part in a hackathon for the good of Vermont over the weekend — sleep be damned.
- Find out how the three sons of Rich Tarrant, Sr. bagged the online grocery business with MyWebGrocer.
- High-tech map making is a big deal for governments, nonprofits and corporations.
- In non-techie news, punk rocker, author and activist Henry Rollins is taking his "Capitalism" talk to Montpelier this Friday. (Look for a longer Q&A with Rollins on this blog soon.)
- And in this week's Fair Game, State Treasurer Beth Pearce finally fights back against challenger Wendy Wilton's negativity — and lands a few blows.
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About The Author
Tyler Machado
Tyler Machado was the digital media manager at Seven Days. He mostly worked behind the scenes making sure the website, email newsletters and social media feeds stayed in tip-top shape.
