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- A New York City tech entrepreneur is noodling on the idea of approaching an “unjustly homeless” man and teaching him how to code. As you might imagine, the notion is getting dinged right and left, but it’s perhaps worth mentioning that the coder involved works for Noodle, an education start-up. So at least there’s that.
- WNYC investigates the local social network, and official city partner, Nextdoor — and whether New Yorkers really do want to know their neighbors.
- Taxi drivers in San Francisco will now be required to go through an annual training session, leading to complaints like, “the pink-mustache cabs and Uber cars don’t have to do anything, but there are more and more regulations on taxi drivers. It’s just not right.”
- The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is calling on ride share drivers to be fingerprinted and background-checked by state authorities. The body is also not a fan of having drivers rate customers.
- A woman who Airbnb’d her rent-stabilized apartment finds the case kicked out of housing court on procedural grounds.
- “Like Airbnb for _____” ideas are everywhere these days, but here’s a _____ that particularly catches the eye: storage.
- If you make a Vine video about Airbnb, you might end up on the Sundance Channel.
- A New York City architect says that it’s not so much individual regulatory structures that are difficult to navigate as it is “the space between them.”
- And here chefs read bad Yelp reviews aloud.
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.