Through freak weather, the links must go: Chris Vein: 5 Open Data Apps that Are Improving Our Cities Lisa Hoover: Open Source Wheelchair Design Aids Disabled in Developing Countries Marc Lifsher and David Sarno: Google accuses California of rigging bidding process for e-mail contract Peter Levine: What is the best participatory project in the world?Read… Read more »
Summary The Lab asked this simple question to a people across Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and in e-mail. The survey, which was built using SurveyMonkey, received a total of 121 responses. While not a large number the sentiment expressed, and the detailed responses, provide good insights. Who Responded? The respondents were 68.1% male, 31.9% female. TheRead… Read more »
From John Kamensky: Gov Exec: 2010 Census, after all the hoopla: “On time and under budget” Gov Exec: Defense abandons insourcing efforts: “we weren’t seeing the savings we had hoped for.” Gov Exec: Gates Announces DOD Cuts: Business Transformation Agency, Joint Forces Command, the CIO’s office all get the axe. The Center for American ProgressRead… Read more »
In the past couple of weeks, the DC metro area was wracked by massive storms that compounded commuting woes (and split an apartment building in half). My commuting time more than doubled. Much–maligned power company Pepco featured two Flickr feeds documenting the storm damage and indirectly making a strong case for teleworking. In the daysRead… Read more »
The pace of change in our industry keeps my head spinning. While more complete reviews will come in the future I wanted to point out how a couple of our early innovators are working to impact how you execute your social business efforts. Their efforts could impact the course of business for the next decadeRead… Read more »
Open Government, open source, open standards, open specifications. There is a huge amount of confusion and misunderstanding on what these terms mean when it comes to technology, and which products and tools fit into each category. Adobe System’s Dave McAlister, director of Open source and Standards, gives a great primer on what each term means,Read… Read more »
Can I get an “Amen” that the economy is slightly askew? Are you spending time wondering what is going on? Here are some emerging patterns that might help. Daemon/Freedom™ is one story in two books about our economy if it was based on social rather than economic resources. It’s also a good shoot ’em up.Read… Read more »
(Apologies to anyone outside the U.S. for this metaphor.) Imagine waking up one morning to attend a soccer game. You arrive a bit late and the game is already in progress. What you see is mind numbing. The players all have padded gear on, stop play every time their awkwardly shaped brown leather ball touchesRead… Read more »
Originally posted on LeFigaro.fr by Jean-Sebastian Stehli on August 12, 2010 A funny thing is occuring in the U.S., a silent revolution that no one has yet registered, but whose impact on American society will be felt for half a century to come. In the next four years, nearly 500,000 baby boomer employees will retire.Read… Read more »
The weather sure has been hot lately. Want to get a good picture of the weather over the past year? Then get NOAA’s National Climate Data Center recently published report on the weather and climate occurring around the world in 2009. Because weather fascinates many of us and is experienced by all of us, theRead… Read more »