Rise and Shine is a regular morning roundup of links. Tips if you’ve got ‘em.
- The new South Korean city of Songdo might be very, very smart, but it’s also a bit empty — a condition shared by SmartCity Malta.
- Uber’s new Share My E.T.A. feature pushes a little more of its in-house data out, allowing those whom you text message to track your progress on a map. The tool goes from clever to compelling when you consider that Uber operates all over the world, including in cities where getting home isn’t always a sure thing.
- Tech writer Tom Slee argues that “the idea of a natural synergy between business and sharing, between capital and commons” is “fraught with tensions and contradictions.”
- CO Everywhere is a new app that allows you to draw a geographic boundary around social conversations to which you’d like to pay attention.
- HuffPost Live covers Code for America.
- The Kresge Foundation is starting a fund for the redevelopment of Detroit’s Woodward Avenue.
- From the “Things that Weren’t a Business Before: File: A Vancouver start-up aims to equip cafes with lockboxes to facilitate the sharing of Airbnb keys and the like.
- Brooklyn Bridge Park’s “humongous Tostito” — that is, a sweeping new viewing platform — is looking for a patron.
- A local newscaster is South Florida was fired earlier this month for, reportedly, streaming video of his program on his personal website; MediaBistro’s TVSpy notes that his parent company, CBS, has been “in a legal fight with Aereo, a service that takes the signals of local television stations and streams them on Internet-connected devices.”
- Co.Exist’s Zak Stone documents a community meeting in Silver Lake, Los Angeles on Airbnb rentals, where “things got rowdy.”
- And cars aren’t stopping for Manhattan’s pedestrian-only 6½ Avenue.
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.