Rise and Shine is a regular morning roundup of links.
- The city council in Palo Alto, Calif. has hit pause on a plan to identify the town’s “core values,” choosing instead to work on figuring out to include the public in the process. The Palo Alto Weekly reports that “members reasoned that adopting ‘civic participation’ as a core value without any civic participation in this decision would be an unfortunate irony.”
- The Vancouver Sun reports that some local politicians are using crowdfunding sites like Indiegogo not simply to raise cash, but to gin up online interest in their campaigns both at home and abroad.
- Here’s a look inside how Code for America coaches the leaders of its “Brigades,” or local chapters, to identify and find favor with critical allies within City Hall. A taste: “Ask these folks to lunch or coffee. Understand what they are passionate about.”
- Rhode Island has launched its very first kitchen incubator, and demand for the shared cooking space is such that those running it say that they expect the application process to be “highly competitive.”
- How law enforcement in Chicago is using social networks to figure out who will be the victims and perpetrators of violence.
- And New York City’s Cornell tech campus rolls out its first degree program, in “connective media,” aimed at training technologists “to respond to and drive the digital transformation of publishing, advertising, news and information, and entertainment.”
A housekeeping note: We’re going to be taking a breather on these “Rise and Shine” morning link roundups as we pursue integrating a greater range of short and long pieces into the blog. As always, though, keep the tips coming.
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Nancy Scola is a Washington, DC-based journalist whose work tends to focus on the intersections of technology, politics, and public policy. Shortly after returning from Havana she started as a tech reporter at POLITICO.
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