jdunck

Where's Cenk Uygur on this?

Given the success of interoperability formats like GTFS and PFIF, why do you think there aren't more such formats?

What bottlenecks are in distributed response to centralized problems can be addressed through these formats and APIs?

Have you seen any successful ID cross-referencing schemes?

What's the biggest surprise from running Person Finder?

Are you a comedic writer because you're black? Can you imagine being funny without being black?

Somewhat more seriously, thank you, Baratunde, for being a slightly-less-crazy but totally honest voice. I love your work.

Why?

Thanks for your responses. :)

Re shared standards and incentives, I agree. And yet GTFS was an initiative of Google, where the other agencies followed on. Do you have any ideas about finding areas of shared incentives similar to that? Put another way, where are there other agencies with interests like GTFS, who could collaborate if only a format was created?

Re. ID cross-reference, yes, I mean things like IMDB mapping to Rotten Tomatoes, or echonest's Rosetta Stone for music: http://developer.echonest.com/docs/v4#project-rosetta-stone

Helping people find support in the midst of crisis is a hugely important thing. Thanks for your work, all.