Judgmental appears to be a new free case law service for the UK. Judgmental‘s content appears to include case law from the UK, ECJ, ECHR, and Ireland. The years of coverage seem to vary for each court. The Judgmental Website doesn’t appear to include a detailed description of its content, so one must browse inRead… Read more »
Metro Vancouver Transit Police Service (BC) blamed a hacker for a series of mysterious tweets that appeared on its Twitter page last week. The strange comments, which have since been deleted, included “Omg r u in a hospital. U should be. Really life on transit is not like u portray,” and “U r truly aRead… Read more »
This week at Games for Health, I had the pleasure of meeting Tara Cousineau, PhD, founder and CEO of BodiMojo, Inc. Tara is a clinical psychologist and eHealth innovator. Bodimojo.com, the flagship product, is a health engagement platform for teens leveraging web and mobile technologies. When I learned about this online health community, I thoughtRead… Read more »
The U.S. Office of Personnel Management is launching the third annual Feds Feed Families campaign, starting June 1 and running through August 31. This year’s goal is to collect 2 milion pounds of non-perishable goods for the nation’s food banks. I hope that everyone will join in this campaign, even our state and local comrades.Read… Read more »
As with many things in life, I learned the hard way about the importance of having a complete solution in IT. My first task as an IT director was to find a way to maintain the very particular data my agency needed. We developed housing with taxpayers’ money. We needed to know where that housingRead… Read more »
“Humble” was one of the three words I used when introducing myself at the Omidyar Network Executive Forum this week, but at the time I did not know how truly humble I would feel by the end of the event. The ONEF is a three day retreat for Omidyar’s investees (they make grants to non-profitsRead… Read more »
I’m starting to think about cities more and more in terms of user experience. It works pretty well as a metaphor – maybe so well that you don’t even need to call it a metaphor at all. When you’re navigating the city, you want certain things to happen, you want a nice experience, just asRead… Read more »
If you’ve ever seen the movie “Minority Report,” you can probably relate to the queasiness I feel every time I watch the part where Tom Cruise’s character has a black-market operation to replace his eyes. Yup, you read that right. He pays a guy to swap his eyeballs out with someone else’s. Why? Because inRead… Read more »
I had the pleasure of attending yesterday’s AFFIRM luncheon which featured a panel of incredible government rockstars from GSA. The discussion took a look at GSA’s integrated technology services and what the future looks like. Government Rockstar, Marie Davie, GSA’s Assistant Commissioner for Integrated Technology Services and Federal Acquisition Services led a panel which consistedRead… Read more »
This week’s version isn’t the shortest ever, that’s for sure. Feel free to add more links in the comments section! “New York Releases ‘Road Map for the Digital City’” (HT Alex Howard’s Tweet on Twitter) Also see: “With a new road map, New York City aims to be the nation’s premier digital city” Report: “UsingRead… Read more »