I wrote about Kapost not long ago, noting that I was beginning to try out this beta application. Kapost is essentially a multi-user blogging platform where your community can come together to further to share their blog posts. It is separate from your blog but useful in that you can easily move content from KapostRead… Read more »
Hi Folks – I’ve been very remiss in participating in Govloop of late. I have been swamped by my day job and in preparing for the Gov 2.0 Conference held here in Australia. CeBIT Australia’s Gov 2.0 Conference took place 3 & 4 November at the Hyatt Hotel Canberra. There were some great speakers. SenatorRead… Read more »
Recently, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Mr. Robert Duffner, director of Product Management for Windows Azure, as part of his “Thought Leaders in the Cloud” series. In this interview, we discussed: Actual government IT successes, especially using cloud computing Deconstructing the hype around cloud computing and talking about its real characteristics andRead… Read more »
Last week the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) held their second Cloud Computing Forum and Workshop. Skillfully shepherded by Ms. Dawn Leaf, the agency’s senior executive of cloud computing, the event reinforced the US Federeal government’s move towards the cloud. Of particular note to me was the cloud computing simulation model project, knownRead… Read more »
Three has always been a good number for me. And that’s a good thing since this marks my third attempt to test the blog importer. So let’s hope the old saying about it being charm holds true. Because I know you’re tired of seeing these meaningless posts from me. And I’d like to share somethingRead… Read more »
This week, Code for America hosted a webinar to discuss our plans for the 2011 projects and how you can get involved. We were thrilled to see the great turnout, as well as the lively conversation happening on twitter. (For example, @govnerdgrrl: “Code for America webinar just talked about a Foursquare type app built on…JohnRead… Read more »
It’s that time again… Friday’s Fab Five! Every Friday, we’re summarizing the best of the week and highlighting five members or moments that were especially awesome. The Most Commented Blog of the Week goes to Jay Daughtry for his post “7 Questions to Reflect on Before Hiring a College Intern for Social Media”. Jay asksRead… Read more »
Originally posted on the Adobe Government Bits Blog November 18th, 2010 | Posted by John Cristofano Recently, President Obama signed into law the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010. The Act includes a number of provisions intended to increase access to video programming on television and the Internet, require access to theRead… Read more »
Normally a sunny celebration about the future of the Web, one of the largest annual gatherings of the Internet elite took on a darker and more pessimistic tone this week. The fear that ran through the seventh annual Web 2.0 Summit is that the days when the Internet was a playground for startups with unlimitedRead… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda Slate’s Michael Agger asks the question “How should we use data to improve our lives?” An important question for those of us clamoring for more data. Mobile apps are paving the way for city services (har har har) reports the Wall Street Journal. Interesting to see that services can be built on dataRead… Read more »