Austin Nominated for VH1 2010 “Do Something City” Award
Posted on 08. Jul, 2010 by Ted Johnson.
Austin. As in Texas. Here in Arizona, we have great empathy for our fellow Wild West state. We often find ourselves inadvertently competing to be America’s political punch line. But when you get down to localities and municipalities, there’s a lot about which we can be proud, especially when it comes to cycling culture, and [...]
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Analysis of Google’s Bike-There Feature: Part II
Posted on 02. Jul, 2010 by Melanie Colavito.
In April, I wrote the first part of an analysis of Google’s new Bike-There feature on Google Maps. Google announced their game-changing new feature in early March of 2010. When I first reviewed Google’s Bike-There feature, I had some criticisms of the underlying factors and variables that Google used to build the algorithm, which is [...]
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Social Action through Cycling
Posted on 28. Jun, 2010 by Stacey Moses.
Social action, generally speaking, refers to an act performed by an individual or a group to work towards achieving a goal that is valued by society. Bicycles can be used to support different types of social action, such as charity rides in which a bike ride is the main event in an effort to raise [...]

