Chicago looks into high-speed rail link to airport
Inspired by a trip on Shanghai’s maglev train, outgoing Chicago (IL) mayor Daley is seeking proposals for a high-speed rail link to O’Hare Airport. Original post
Monthly Archives: May 2011
DC students to test Metro ID cards
In response to reports of teen on Metro, Washington officials are testing a new student ID card that will work like a SmarTrip card on WMATA. Original post
Bridging the Communication & Health Divide: RxCreative
If you’ve read my online bio, or follow my activity around the net, chances are good that you know how passionate I am about the issue of health literacy. This piece marks the start of a new series I’ve been invited to write on Pulse + Signal, called Bridging the Communication & Health Divide. TheRead… Read more »
Can courts be paperless? Garland, TX thinks so!
Here’s how Garland, TX has gone nearly paperless…
Open data apps can be difficult to sustain
Cities across the country have encouraged developers to use municipal data for mobile applications. But once the contest is over the apps can go dormant, Original post
Indiana moves to performance based model for teachers
Indiana will be changing the way teachers are evaluated and paid. Under a Senate bill signed on Friday, Indiana will now include teacher effectiveness benchmarks in its hiring, salary and promotions decisions. The bill is the first of Governor Mitch Daniels broad education reform agenda to pass both chambers and be signed into law. UnderRead… Read more »
Information Awareness Month
Greetings from the launch of Information Awareness Month 2011 in the Brindabella Room of the National Library of Australia in Canberra. The Director General of the library opened proceedings by mentioning the need to keep access to information for the public and the excellent way the NLA helps this with the Trove system.Bodies involved inRead… Read more »
There is no such thing as IT
I have cracked the problem of government IT. A few months ago, I argued that there is no such thing as the government. Now, in a further breakthrough, I have realised that there is no such thing as IT either. Putting those two thoughts together leads unavoidably to the conclusion that the problem of governmentRead… Read more »
LexisNexis Speaker Series Event – Title 11 and the Great Recession: Recent Trends in Business Reorganization
This free, 1 hour LexisNexis Speaker Series event being co-hosted by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation may be of interest to you if you are in the DC area. Here’s all the information: LexisNexis cordially invites you to attend the 2011 Speaker Series – “Title 11 and the Great Recession: Recent Trends in Business Reorganization“Read… Read more »
Cowpaths in Hyperspace
Greetings from the Australian Demographic & Social Research Institute (ADSRI) at the Australian National Unviersity, where Lingfei Wu, from the Web Mining Lab,City University of Hong Kong is talking on “How the Web1.0 fails: The mismatch between hyperlinks and user-flow”. He argues that rather than following the hyperlinks built into web sites, people follow otherRead… Read more »