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Did you see the full-page Adobe ads this morning? Reaction?
I saw them in the print additions of both the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, assume they ran in other major papers as well. What did you think? Here’s the version on ArsTechnica. Adobe’s Bobby Caudill also blogged about the issue.
The UK’s new Foreign Secretary – the first 24 hours
Rt Hon William Hague MP was appointed as Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs on 12 May 2010. Here’s some of the first moments.
Lawmakers disregarded Defense Secretary Robert Gates‘s calls for fiscal restraint on Thursday, approving a military pay raise higher than President Obama and the Pentagon requested. The House Armed Services personnel subcommittee approved a 1.9 percent pay bump for uniformed military personnel, half of a percentage point higher than Obama’s fiscal 2011 budget. The markup alsoRead… Read more »
Social Media, Social Networking, New Media Will Change Law Enforcement!
There seems to be a reluctance of law enforcement in a general sense to become involved in social media. Whether it is lack of education, funds, or knowledge law enforcement is fast being left behind by criminals who are adapting to social media. An example, Flash Mobs became a problem in Philadelphia this past MarchRead… Read more »
Project of the Week: BetterBuy Project – Ideas in Action
As described in an earlier blog post the BetterBuy Project was launched to bring collaboration, transparency and participation into the federal acquisition process through the use of collaborative processes and technology. Since last October, people from industry, federal, state, local government and private citizens have submitted over 130 ideas on the BetterBuy Project platform. OurRead… Read more »
Got a Question? GovLoopers Got Your Back (in 60 Mins or Less)!
Start from the bottom up. To paraphase Vanilla Ice: “If you got a problem – yo, we’ll solve it. Check out the Loop while my G-man revolves it.” Comment by Erica A Morin 30 seconds ago Got to love this site. Thanks everyone for this fantastically quick response! Comment by Emi Whittle 21 minutes agoRead… Read more »
Judgement Day. How does your government want to be evaluated for “Sunshine 2.0” or your support of democracy online?
The national League of Women Voters has commissioned me via E-Democracy.org to draft a guide titled “Sunshine 2.0.”In short, local Leagues will use this guide to evaluate their local government online efforts based on their support of democracy. Government themselves, academics, and the media may also use the guide to see how they compare withRead… Read more »
The Most Treasured Gift
In the Information Age the most treasured gift is information. Blogging, information is often a unique definition, your point of view. Post! Comment! Do It Now!
New Tool for Visualizing Congressional Bills: IBM Many Bills / DocBlocks
Yannick Assogba, Irene Ros, and Matt McKeon, all of the IBM Research Visual Communication Lab, presented DocBlocks: Communication-Minded Visualization of Topics in U.S. Congressional Bills, at CHI 2010: The 28th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, held 10-15 April 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Here is the abstract: US Federal legislation is aRead… Read more »