Rise and Shine is a regular morning roundup of links. Tips if you’ve got ‘em.
- Over on Slate, Paul Ford makes the case that Citi Bikes would fit right into any post-apocalyptic scenario, including Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.
- The aforementioned is rather bad news for short people: One 4-foot-10-inch New Yorker argues that Citi Bikes’ blue bombers aren’t really one-size-fits-all.
- Hotel owners in Ottawa are warning that Airbnb represents, per the CBC, “a risky underground market.”
- Sydney, Australia warns that people renting out their homes without council approval risk $750 fines.
- The Guardian’s Carole Cadwalladr says that if this is indeed the age of Airbnb, one reason might be “terrible, overpriced Ramada Inns.”
- Take a peek inside MESH Norway, Oslo’s first-ever coworking space.
- Nigeria’s Edo State has launched what it is calling sub-Saharan Africa’s first non-national municipal open data portal, and its Ministry of Housing announced that it is setting up an internal GIS unit in the hopes of making use of “a top notch technology for urban planning”
- A marketer with a “connected car” company provides a useful shorthand for the sharing economy: “I do not need a drill. I need a hole in the wall.”
- This passed under the radar at the time, but the American Legislation Exchange Council’s tech lead argued earlier this summer of things like Airbnb, TaskRabbit and Lyft, “the only obstacles to the app economy are poorly planned and executed government policies.”
- Trend alert: “Surveillance art” created from Google Street View, YouTube videos and the like is being spied in galleries.
- And local software developers are hungry to make Toronto “the Most [Google] Glass-Friendly City in the World.”
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.