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• In his keynote address at the inaugural SXSW V2V conference taking place this week in Las Vegas’ The Cosmopolitan hotel, Zappos CEO and Downtown Project founder Tony Hsieh tells the crowd, “Instead of return on investment, think about return on community.” Attendees are invited to “visit the downtown area of the city and witness the massive social engineering experiment” Hsieh has in the works.
• Hsieh also used his address to highlight the counterintuitive slogan the Downtown Project is using to promote its monthly speaker series: “Downtown Vegas will make you smarter.”
• In a talk before the New York Tech Meetup, city council speaker and mayoral candidate Christine Quinn says that it’s a “misperception” that Mayor Michael Bloomberg was able to attract people to city government because he’s a billionaire. “He got people from the private sector to come into government at unprecedented levels,” she explained, “‘cause he asked, and he asked with his head held up high. Not, like, ‘Oh, I’m really sorry. You know, I’m calling from the government. You know, I know you’re gonna lose a lot of money, but could you take two years?’ No!” Instead, she said, Bloomberg has displayed the same attitude evident among city technologists. “It’s an honor to have your city ask you to help.” (About 7:40 in.)
• Quinn also told an anecdote about her visit to the Technion, the Israeli engineering school partnering with Cornell on the city’s coming applied science campus: “I had like a whole bunch of knowledge. The end of my speech to the professors, ‘Any questions?’ Honest to God, in Haifa: ‘We hear the coffee shop on Roosevelt Island isn’t that nice. Can you fix it before we come?’ ‘We heard the supermarket was dirty. Can you do anything about that?’ I thought, Tip O’Neill would be proud. Halfway around the world, all politics is still local.” (About 4:00 in.)
• In her ruling on New York City’s stop-and-frisk practice, a judge directed that officers in the precincts with the highest number of incidents be fitted with wearable cameras.
• Minneapolis’ bid to create a city utility company is no more after local electricity provider Xcel promised to explore alternative energy sources, improve the reliability of their service, and “work with city staff on the best forum for ongoing collaboration and idea exchange.”
• Two Central Valley lawmakers are calling for an investigation into whether the California High Speed Rail Authority is acquiring land wrong.
• The New York City Housing Authority is circulating Digital Vans, as in mobile computer labs that local residents can use to go online and otherwise access technologies.
• And you can Airbnb like artist Jean-Michel Basquiat for $650 a night.

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.