What got me thinking today, however, was the RSVP return. Before the party, only 8 people had RSVPed and yet, more than 40 people were in attendance. A similar situation occurred several month ago when I shared invitations to my daughter’s birthday party. We had invited 12 kids and only 3 RSVP’s arrived in advanceRead… Read more »
Professor Dr. Radboud Winkels of the Leibniz Center for Law of the University of Amsterdam has published What’s in an Interchange Standard for Legislative XML?, Jusletter IT, 22, Feb. 2011. Here is the abstract: To make efficient and effective use of all sources of law electronically available in Europe, with all their different (XML) formats,Read… Read more »
The Canberra Times reports to day in “City’s waterside vision revealed” (by JUDITH IRELAND, 11 April 2011, 2011 12:07 PM), that it is proposed to build a $327 million conference centre and hotel complex. I was previously consulted on the design of a hi-tech dialogue centre as part of the development. My suggestion was toRead… Read more »
The NRMA sent me a membership renewal notice. When I went to the web site I was told that I had to have a “profile” set up. When I went to do this, using the details on the renewal notice, I was told these were incorrect. It turned out that the postcode on the NRMARead… Read more »
Wired writes about the recent study of Boston and San Francisco commuters showing that better information can encourage people to choose alternative modes. Original post
After a successful pilot, the MBTA is expanding its quiet car program for commuter rail. The agency also upgrade its real-time Rail Radio alerts. Original post
The Orton Family Foundation’s new Planning Tool Exchange (PlanIt X) is a free, community-driven website designed to help people find and share tools and resources to support community planning and civic engagement. PlanIt X is written by you and for you – contributions, edits, comments and improvements all come directly from our users – andRead… Read more »
Neil Pittaway reports in Asia Pacific Defence Reporter (March 2011) on ” ISR imagery – information overload”. He argues that large amounts of video information from UAVs and other sensor systems are overloading the military communications systems used on a battlefield. He discusses systems such as the Hawklink used by the US Navy to getRead… Read more »
Recently Professor Sylvia Rodger asked for help contacting the IT industry about autism. She was to brief an international autism summit on a Proposal to establish a Cooperative Research Centre on Autism. Key to the proposal is to involve the IT industry in the work. It has been long established that those with Autism SpectrumRead… Read more »
It was a little surprising to find the Austrlaian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) advertising for Information Technology staff via good ad-words advertisements on my web site.Previously Tenix/Navantia advertised aircraft carriers on my web site (as I had a web page about the LHD Ship Project) and the Australian Navy ordered two. Original post