Steph Gray @lesteph recently highlighted an article by Gerry McGovern on the The accidental website visitor. Gerry talks about how a website significantly improved its satisfaction levels once it was attracting the right, but smaller audience. This made me think about who is the ‘right kind’ of website visitor? Are they one of us? DoRead… Read more »
Michael J. Bommarito II of Computational Legal Studies has posted Building a Better Legal Search Engine, Part 1: Searching the U.S. Code. Here is a summary: […] The first part in my blog series leading up to this talk will focus on indexing and searching the U.S. Code with structured, public domain data and openRead… Read more »
I am an addiction counselor at the Lincoln Nebraska Veterans Hospital. My supervisor received an Innovations Proposal Grant for a therapeutic Living House to supplement our treatment program at the hospital. It was a huge success! Guess what. After helping over 75 veterans, with an over the top success rate, it was closed down. ThisRead… Read more »
A cross post from Steph’s blog to help publicise this event! Just a quick one to pimp MailCamp11, a free show + tell event about email marketing in the public sector, now confirmed for 12 May at the Dept of Communities and Local Government. Everyone’s on a budget, and wants to make their digital channelsRead… Read more »
The Vermont Senate is working to advance broadband in the state with new legislation. The bill would fulfill a long standing goal of making broadband internet and cellular phone service available statewide and would begin looking at ways to upgrade the state’s electrical grid through smart grid technology. The state laid out these initiatives fourRead… Read more »
INPUT Senior Analyst Jeff Webster recaps Monday’s Ohio APCO/NENA state conference. Earlier this week, the Ohio chapter of the Association of Public Safety Communication Officials (APCO) and the National Emergency Number Association (NENA) held their annual joint conference, which brought together nearly 150 public safety communication officials throughout the Ohio region. As expected, the hot-buttonRead… Read more »
Here are a few things I learned about running audio on my first all-DSLR shoot. Run dual system audio and sync it in post. I am so glad we did this. Even my old Zoom H4 picked up amazingly clean audio. An XLR input beats a mini-jack any day of the week. PluralEyes is yourRead… Read more »
The Vermont Senate is working to advance broadband in the state with new legislation. The bill would fulfill a long standing goal of making broadband internet and cellular phone service available statewide and would begin looking at ways to upgrade the state’s electrical grid through smart grid technology. The state laid out these initiatives fourRead… Read more »
It is easy to say that the nation’s water resources are interconnected and that what happens upstream can have major consequences for downstream areas. But it is much harder to convey these points in a relevant way to a nation of city-dwellers. However, cartographer Daniel Huffman has found a new and refreshing way to showRead… Read more »
Starting in June, riders on San Diego’s Metropolitan Transit System (CA) will be able to receive real-time arrival info for bus and trolley via SMS. Original post