As D.C. police figure out how to track and predict crime in the city’s up-and-coming neighborhoods, a Ledroit Park is trying to crowdsource the same information.

As we’ve recently reported, Capital Bikeshare is expanding, with new stations planned for the District and Arlington. (Alexandria is even getting in on the act!) And the locations of the new stations are to be picked by a select group: everyone.

Can you crowdsource an entire feature film? Of course you can: getting a massive number of people to respond to an online call to action is the easy part. But can the result be something worthwhile? When you’ve got talented filmmakers guiding the project, as is the case with Life in a Day, you can not only get worthwhile results, but even something approaching extraordinary.

Arlington County is getting more Bikeshare, and they’re asking residents to help pick where new stations should go.

The District of Columbia has always suffered from an identity crisis. It’s in the city’s DNA. Here we are, sitting in a space that some people around the country still consider a second-class territory, simply the place where a bunch of people in suits come and spend their hard-earned money inside big buildings coated with pearly white paint. We all know better, of course; but sometimes, it just feels like an endless battle.