Tech

Linked augmentation

The following post is entirely Hadley Beeman’s (@hadleybeeman) fault. So much is, actually, when it comes to opendata and linked data – just Google her and you’ll find it why. For the US orientated among you, Hadley is essentially our national lead on opendata in the UK, she’s an American and she yay’s. In public.Read… Read more »

Food for Thought From #Gov2.0LA

I am going to be honest. No one is twisting my arm this weekend to attend Gov2.0LA. With a backdrop like this, and temperatures in the mid-70s, life is good. Not to mention the rampant ideas and energy-rich conversations going on with a room full of experts dedicated to making government better. Despite my sun-inducedRead… Read more »

Fantastic advice on how to manage up, esp. as a web manager

My friend Candi Harrison’s latest blog post is well worth reading: http://candioncontent.blogspot.com/2011/02/successful-web-leaders-communicate.html I recommend this not only because I’ve successfully implemented her advice as a leader, but also because it works for me as a manager. I love helping my team succeed, and it’s best when they make that as easy as possible.

The curious tale of the mysterious triangle

The web amplifies. And here’s a good example of how the silliest little thing can go viral. Of how unintentional geekness thrown together in 10 minutes can suddenly end up with people from Cologne to California commenting on that geekness and people saying thank you in quite sweet and lovely ways. On January 12th thisRead… Read more »

The Dirty Dozen–Don’t Do Analytics…

1) If you haven’t set good goals and objectives first. (If you don’t know where you’re going any road will get you there). … So there you have the 12 worst reasons I can think of to start doing analytics. Anyone else got a worse reason?

Small Parts from Amazon.com

Amazon.com has set up a specialist part of its web site for industrial and lab supplies called smallparts.com. There items ranging from Male Four Arm Knobs to Linear Actuators in the product index. Here is a list of the top 50 words in the index:<!– #htmltagcloud{ /****************************************** * CUSTOMIZE CLOUD CSS BELOW (optional) */ font-size:Read… Read more »

Stepping Up

It’s an historic day for Egypt and for the world. But…when Egypt’s President Mubarak ‘stepped down’…we have to wonder who will be ‘stepping up.’ Of course, we’re hoping to see all segments of the Egyptian population to ‘step up’ equally, but this is not likely. It’s not likely, because many will not have equal choiceRead… Read more »

Sartor et al. on Approaches to Legal Ontologies: Theories, Domains, Methodologies

Approaches to Legal Ontologies: Theories, Domains, Methodologies (Springer 2011), a collection of scholarly articles on legal ontologies, has been published. The volume is edited by Professor Dr. Giovanni Sartor of Università di Bologna CIRSFID, Professor Dr. Pompeu Casanovas of the Institute of Law & Technology (IDT) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Maria AngelaRead… Read more »