I recently had the pleasure of meeting Steve Ressler the driving force behind Govloop @govloop Steve is a very engaging and talkative guy who was over from the US for a flying visit. I came across Govloop some time ago when Julia Chandler @juliac2 who had been over in America for a conference mentioned it.Read… Read more »
The recent media frenzy over the latest social media offerings introduced at SXSW last week demonstrates that collaboration is one of the app themes for 2011. This isn’t the first time collaboration software has been the “next big thing’” I remember back in the early 90’s when computer-supported work applications were all the rage (rememberRead… Read more »
CANDIDATE LOAN STORY. In Roll Call this morning. “Members of Congress have discovered another way to err on their annual financial disclosure reports.” KOCH AND POMPEO. The Post reports. “When Mike Pompeo needed funding for a Wichita aerospace company, one of the places he and his partners went for help was Koch Industries, a hometownRead… Read more »
Columnist Joseph Rose reviewed TriMet’s audible pedestrian warning system and recapped a controversy involving the system manufacturer and a local engineer. Original post
Writing in The Huffington Post, Mayor of Los Angeles (CA) Antonio Villaraigosa outlined a proposal for LA Metro to test 30 electric buses. Original post
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web Commercial Use of your API – why you should allow it | The London Biker The great thing about letting people make money is that they’ll make you money in return – you don’t have to spend months locked away in an R&D lab – butRead… Read more »
The legal informatics conference calendar has now been updated. The calendar lists primarily scholarly conferences that focus on legal information systems, or that are known to welcome papers on legal information systems. Click here for a list of events just added to the calendar. If you know of events or other information that should beRead… Read more »
Continuing on a prior post about whether to pursue additional graduate school, here are some basic questions you should ask before applying to a graduate program: What are the employment outcomes of their graduates? Can they point to specific successes? Beyond the nice success stories, what is the average grad doing—what percentage got jobs inRead… Read more »
This piece was originally published for Bloomberg Government on 03/11/2011. The Obama White House announced plans in December to transform the way federal information technology projects are managed and executed. Its 25-point implementation instructions to federal agencies include many good ideas, from the adoption of light technologies and shared services to aligning the budget andRead… Read more »
The present (U.S. 2011) military actions in Libya, and other U.S. ‘interests’ generally throughout North Africa reminded me of my own work as a USAF civil service employee during 1954-56 at Nouasseur Air Base, located about 20 miles south of Casablanca, in what was (then) French Morocco. My job was planner at the Nouasseur AirRead… Read more »