Tech

Equal Access, Facebook, MySpace, and Limited Resources

A couple of weeks ago, I attended the Personal Democracy Forum conference. One of the best sessions was by danah boyd (she doesn’t capitalize her name), a researcher currently working for Microsoft. She basically whacked us over the head with the fact thatdespite similar numbers, the people on Facebook aren’t the same people on MySpace.Read… Read more »

Sweet GovTweets 07.12.2009

Happy anniversary to GovLoop! Flowers for Steve (obviously, not my roses …that are full of holes from nasty Japanese beetles …) We need a Rose Garden Czar. And by the way, since we are all about transparency and such, where is the pay-scale for those 30-odd folks published? Image by Jack Duval via Flickr PartiesRead… Read more »

The Anniversary Edition, Randomness, and the NCAA Division 1 Big East College Football Preview from the Hokie Guru, Govloop’s Bureaucrat on Sports

Good morning, Govloopers!!! It’s been a year since Govloop sent me this e-mail… he sent it on July 10, 2008: So here’s what I’m thinking with GovLoop. You (studboy) write a once a week short blog/column. Your topic of choice. It can be a combination of your crazy stories and the sports stud hokieguru. IRead… Read more »

25 most and least liked City Web Sites in no real order. Yet?

Most liked 1 New York City http://www.nyc.gov/portal/site/nycgov/?front_door=true 5 2 Philadelphia http://www.phila.gov/ 5 3 San Francisco http://www.sfgov.org/ 5 4 Austin http://www.austintexas.org/ 5 5 Nashville http://www.nashville.gov/ 5 6 Oklahoma City http://www.okc.gov/ 5 low 7 Fresno http://www.fresno.gov/default.htm 5 8 Long Beach http://www.longbeach.gov/default.asp 5 9 Cleveland http://www.city.cleveland.oh.us/CityofCleveland/Home 5 10 Virginia Beach http://www.vbgov.com/ 5 11 Miami http://www.ci.miami.fl.us/cms/ 5 12 ArlingtonRead… Read more »

Web Writing 1.0 = 2.0

Author’s note: I’m reproducing this blog from our internal City of Toronto staff webbook blog on web writing. With all the buzz around Web 2.0 technology, it’s easy to forget social media tools allow everyone to “write for the web”. It’s no longer a one way street. User comments are often more significant than theRead… Read more »