Chicago-based writer and internet consultant. I am the People Person at EveryBlock, I write books under Juggernautco, the poetry outfit, and I run a number of active and fallow side projects (see below).
career everyblock: local news and public information resume: with portfolio examples screenshots: pretty much every site i've ever worked on weblogconsultant: my consultancy juggernaut co.: the book company i run with designer jonny stepping
current writing derviative works: personal weblog wesley willis art: dedicated to propagating the reputation of a genius visual artist gapers block: web site about chicago sports in five: the five things you need to know about the chicago bulls while standing around the water cooler open source homeland: open source tactics to help in security, disaster preparedness, and emergency reponse.
fallow sites i wrote bullet group web 2.0: practice area i created in spring 2007 internetlifeservices: custom, personalized consulting to help you get an internet life john f. burns: the best journalist in american newspapers letters to the editor: another derivative works site based on letters to the editor of my father
other goofball websites lead-paint-lawsuit: resources, news, and links about lead paint litigation from a real person who's really interested in it kevin finnerty: resources, links, and news about Tony Soprano's purgatory ego housing froth: taking the bub out of bubble
books i wrote bricks: a new book of poems boilerplate: koreshians, potential rioters, and bureaucratic complicity in american self-destruction memo to all employees: dedicated to the public library economics: the book for those with unclean hands. call me if you want one for free
ideas not executed yet stale bagel: least compelling wireless utility on the internet emotional geography: customized maps with highlighted points of personal interest cheerocracy: this is not a democracy. this is a cheerocracy men with budweiser: dozens of men carrying 30 packs of budweiser on public transportation policy analysis market: a brilliant idea disguised as a disgusting one chicago works for you: mapped city services
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(spring 2008) people-personing at everyblock, writing at idealab and derivative works, helping plan igotf, working my new camera to move past mere pictures, writing a one-man show for spring. If you are a city government official with access to data for EveryBlock, hit me at danx at everyblock.com or 773 321 8146.
contact
danielxatgmaildotcom
aim: danxoneil
yahoo: dan_x_oneil pic taken by cjo pic of me w/ economics pressman pic of me & dee in nyc pic of me at the first meeting of the open government working group