Stuff I've recorded/been recording talking about/been interviewed for
TacoConf 2012 in Oakland + San Francisco - an event I put on
Voxel.js - Minecraft in the browser - at @nodepdx 2013 in Portland
Teaching Programming to Cats (and humans) - Empire.js in NYC, Oct 2012
Mikeal Rogers' video series: the beard, discovering node.js, oakland, open data
Government.js at @JSConfEU 2012 in Berlin
Summit on technology in government at the Aspen Institute
Using JavaScript for all the things at the Node Dublin Conference, October 2012
Building a mobile app at PhoneGap Day EU in Amsterdam, Sept 2012
Streaming Cats - How Node.js Streams work - Presentation for the 2012 Summer of Node interns
JavaScript databases?! at LXJS 2012 in Lisbon, Portugal - Sept 2012
Panel at the MIT Media Lab: "Bustling with Information: Cities, Code and Civics"
Big Data for the Public Good - Seminar with Ward Cunningham, inventor of the wiki
CyborgCamp2010 keynote - Future webs and civic hacking
CyborgCamp2010 Interview - The federated social web
Changelog: The Github Podcast - on Code for America
NodeConf2011 Interview - Open data tools
Distributed web apps with CouchDB in Stockholm, Sweden at SWDC2011
Code for America 2011 Summit - DataCouch
Mozilla Festival 2011 in London - DataCouch Demo
Government Open Source Conference - Why middleware is the key to a successful gov 2.0
Beyond Local Search - Panel on "local data"
Portland, OR Civic Apps Mayoral Awards Pt. 1 (Summer '10) and the followup Pt. 2 (Winter '10)
Code for Oakland Apps for Communities Awards Presentations (on Open211.org)
Ignite Boston: Education, Technology and Libraries in Boston
Get friendly with CouchDB (2011)
Hosting websites out of CouchDB (2011)
Interactive HTML5 CouchApps using node.couchapp.js (2011)
Awesomely simple web scraping with ScraperWiki (2011)
Five minute ScraperWiki intro (2011)
Cleaning up open data with Google Refine (2011)
Gather: A New App For Organizing Meetups Over Facebook And Twitter
What's Next: City Hall 2.0 - Stanford Social Innovation Review, Spring 2011
"Now Ogden is turning geek activism into a full-time gig."
The Civic Web Will Help You Find Cats, Among Other Things
Ogden talked about Code For America, an initiative that “enlists the brightest minds of the web industry into public service to use their skills to solve core problems facing our communities.” He talked about Paul Otlet, the forgotten father of information science, who may have pioneered the idea of the “like” button and the concept of recommendation systems. He talked in the context of libraries – imagine Netflix for public libraries, or an anthropomorphized library pushing book recommendations to you based on geolocation. How can we capitalize on the curiosity gap and encourage kids to seek information and collaborate? The spirit of open government is not about accessibility to data, but rather collaboration, and that is the engine behind Code for America. - Georgy Cohen