There’s been a lot of talk lately about acceptance of failure. Probably because people are pushing for innovation, and it’s difficult to innovate if you’re afraid to fail. Thus the numerous posts of encouragement across the Internet assuring all of us that failure is ok. Of course as engineers, failure is not something we wantRead… Read more »
Amazon announced the Amazon Web Services GovCloud today. This means that government agencies and programs can benefit from Amazon Web Services without having to fret about the myriad security and compliance issues that have been keeping them back. We’re really excited about this for a few reasons: Fewer Excuses Amazon has waded through the oceanRead… Read more »
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. Ministry of Lorem: filler text generated from UK government press releases – Bonkers but strangely compelling site from @lesteph Social media can help riot-hit communities recover – “In all the furore over social media’s inflammatory role in the riots, little has been said about howRead… Read more »
Day 12 Another GIS Day Today ended up being another day primarily spent on GIS. I successfully was able to start a web service for some of our data. But when I went into the ArcGIS Silverlight Viewer Map Builder and put my URL into that data, it could not connect. I tried to lookRead… Read more »
A record number of people took part in our live web chat on evaluating online engagement. Whilst in the course of the hour we didn’t exactly solve the issues, the discussion threw up some great examples and ideas and everyone who took part will have taken something useful away with them. You can relive theRead… Read more »
New commitment to European Unity could spell opportunity for #gov20? French President Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel came out in at least a verbal commitment to increased unity in the Eurozone today. While the also downplayed the possibility of a EuroBond they also pointed toward a desired harmonization on taxation (hint, hint to Ireland).Read… Read more »
okay, look at this photo. Tell me that does not look good: On the left is the classic fish taco from Tacofino, on the right, their halibut special. Both are as good to eat as they look in this photo. Both are pretty minimalist, with the traditional fish taco serving up some lightly fried whiteRead… Read more »
Bay Area Rapid Transit (CA) shut down four downtown San Francisco stations on Monday night to disperse a protest over its decision to curtail cell phone access on its platforms last week; Muni services were also affected by the shutdowns. No one was injured or arrested, cell service stayed on, and all stations re-opened byRead… Read more »
In an experiment on crowdsourcing intelligence, Applied Research Associates, Inc hopes to see if it can build better intelligence collectors and analysts than the CIA produces on “The Farm”, its field academy for clandestine officers, with a tool that bears more resemblance to Facebook’s popular social networking game FarmVille. ARA recently launched the Aggregative ContingentRead… Read more »
Ten winning ideas were announced last week for the NYC BigApps Ideas Challenge. Starting in June, people were encouraged to submit concepts for applications by answering the following question in 140 characters or less: “I want a NYC App that ______.” No programming was required and participants submitted ideas, not functioning apps. Some of theRead… Read more »