Rise and Shine is a regular morning roundup of links. Tips if you’ve got ‘em.
- No matter that it’s home to MIT: Cambridge, Mass. lacks an open data policy, so it’s asking for help.
- What if we’re bullying Yelp?
- Lest you doubt Uber’s ambitions, here are among the cities in which they are currently hiring community managers: Atlanta, Auckland, Bangalore, Bangkok, Beijing, Beirut, Cape Town, Chicago, Columbus, Detroit, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, Düsseldorf, Kuala Lumpur, Lima, London, Los Angeles, Mexico, City, Miami, Montreal, Moscow, Nairobi, New Delhi, New York, Panama City, Panama, Paris, San Francisco, Santiago, Seoul, Shanghai, Taipei, Tokyo, Washington, D.C. and Zurich.
- Lost in the virality of this knowingly ridiculous “trailer” from the Whitehorse City Council is the fact that Yukon city is actually going out of its way to invite citizens to pay attention to what their government is doing.
- Mexico City tries to conquer transit apps.
- How do you get from old Tysons Corner, Va., to new Tysons Corner, Va.? Pop-up shops, maybe.
- Forget the pink mustache. Lyft is getting seriously weird — like a fox.
- And Larry Summers might be the next chair of the Federal Reserve. He’s also, it turns out, a big fan of “a different kind of economy where cars can be used rather than be parked, where empty apartments can become a lower-cost place to stay, and where people who have money they’re not going to have to access immediately can put it to good use.” (Disclosure: Summers is on the board of the peer-finance site Lending Club.)
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.