Posts Tagged ‘metro’

Zimmerman and Linton on innovation – Greater Greater Washington

October 16th, 2009 | Popularity: 2%
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Zimmerman and Linton on innovation – Greater Greater Washington – Caught my eye with the title; instructive in health care with regard to innovation (and the sharing of it) as well – “Getting a customer on that pays a fare to fill a bus that’s not full could be worth a lot more to us, potentially.”

In other words, the tension between being proprietary vs sharing may be reduced by the idea that sharing brings more business.


Unsuck DC Metro: Complete the Tweet VI

September 11th, 2009 | Popularity: 2%
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Metro – About Metro – News – Metrorail wireless service to expand

March 1st, 2009 | Popularity: 13%
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DCist: WMATA On Google Transit: "Not In Our Best Interest"

December 18th, 2008 | Popularity: 19%
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  • DCist: WMATA On Google Transit: “Not In Our Best Interest” – This is an example of the critical mass that can build around consumers wanting access to their data (in this case, the scheduling data of public transit) in different ways, once it is available in other places. Do I have to go to the WMATA Web site to do all of my transit planning, or can I use the built in application on my iPhone also? If other public utilities have already begun collaborating, shouldn’t ours? Aren’t there analogies in health care (I’m thinking “revolution of rising expectations“).

Photo Friday: National Building Museum, A Place for Beginnings and Endings

October 31st, 2008 | Popularity: 19%
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National Building Museum

This week’s photograph is of The National Building Museum , in Downtown, Washington, DC, which became famous this year for an ending, to a historic presidential campaign. From the Museum’s about page:

The Museum is, however, much more than a repository of things, beautiful and intriguing though they may be. It is above all a forum for the development, exploration, and exchange of ideas. Created by an act of Congress in 1980, the National Building Museum has become one of the world’s most prominent and vital venues for informed, reasoned debate about the built environment and its impact on people’s lives

When I toured the interior, it was being set up to celebrate the beginning to a new relationship, in the gorgeous grand hall.

National Building Museum

And for my ongoing curiosity about the city, the model for the City’s master plan used until the 1970’s was on display as well as an exhibit describing our transportation history. Washington, DC, like many cities, was slated to have interstate freeways coursing through it in the 1960’s, but thanks to the activism of its diverse residents, this never happened, for the benefit of all who enjoy its beauty today.

Washington DC Master Plan

We Love DC » Blog Archive » Metro Says No to Bloggers

October 21st, 2008 | Popularity: 13%
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  • We Love DC » Blog Archive » Metro Says No to Bloggers – "It only looks worse when you turn people away." A lesson from one of our nation's best public transit systems about the impact of making distinctions that don't make sense to the public about what you will share. Lots of analogies in health care (of course)

Maintaining Metro – washingtonpost.com

July 22nd, 2008 | Popularity: 15%
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  • Maintaining Metro – washingtonpost.com – For those who live in Washington, more information about what's happening during those 30-45 minute delays on weekends when they are replacing switches. Things related to place matter even to those working to change the world. The world is not flat.