This Week's Issue: High-Tech Cops and Henry Rollins
In this week's Tech Jam-celebrating issue of Seven Days, now available on your newsstands and your Internets...
- Is it necessarily a bad thing when a locally-owned, homegrown tech company sells to an out-of-state corporation?
- Burlington Police had an expensive, ineffective computer system for tracking crime. So Chief Mike Schirling coded a better platform himself.
- Speaking of coding, this blogger took part in a hackathon for the good of Vermont over the weekend — sleep be damned.
- Find out how the three sons of Rich Tarrant, Sr. bagged the online grocery business with MyWebGrocer.
- High-tech map making is a big deal for governments, nonprofits and corporations.
- In non-techie news, punk rocker, author and activist Henry Rollins is taking his "Capitalism" talk to Montpelier this Friday. (Look for a longer Q&A with Rollins on this blog soon.)
- And in this week's Fair Game, State Treasurer Beth Pearce finally fights back against challenger Wendy Wilton's negativity — and lands a few blows.
