Issa sites, lobbyist wins, former Senators on the Hill, and Newt in today’s political law links

ISSA WEBSITES IN THE NEWS. Roll Call reports. “In mid-February, videos posted by the California Republican’s staff on the YouTube page of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee contained a production credit for ‘DEI Productions’ instead of the ‘Oversight Productions’ moniker his office had used on other committee videos.” LOBBYIST WINS. Roll Call reports onRead… Read more »

Common Practice or Best Practice? A Key distinction in User Adoption practice.

This article was originally published on Tri Tuns Blog. OBSERVATION Congratulations! You’ve just implemented your new IT system. As end-users use the system, they will discover new and creative ways to use the technology. To optimize their efficient methods throughout the end-user community at your organization, you need a mechanism to identify emergent best practicesRead… Read more »

Comments – is Facebook the answer?

Commenting on websites is a funny thing. Luckily for me, DavePress is sufficiently niche not to attract too many readers, so the problem of being inundated by moronic comments has never really been an issue for me. For big, popular sites though, commenting can be a real issue. You just need to take a lookRead… Read more »

Governors hear from security officials, state CIOs about cyber security

Although the headline was lost among budget cuts, state capital protests and public sector layoffs, efforts to gin up interest in cyber security during the National Governors Association Winter Meeting last weekend were heard loud and clear. Calls from the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) and a briefing by General Keith Alexander,Read… Read more »

Smart Grid Energy Revolution for Canberra

Robin Eckermann talked on “The SMART GRID – The looming energy revolution” last night at the Australian Computer Society Canberra Branch Forum. He pointed out that electricity meters are the interface between the electricity grid and the customer. The meters are the most expensive component to replace to provide a smart grid, simply because thereRead… Read more »

Netfloor Cable Management Floor Tiles

Just noticed that the Cable Management Floor tile sample provided to me by Ecotile is branded “Netfloor”. It appears to be a Netfloor AD-400 40 mm (1.57″) UniPanel unit.Netfloor CMS Systems … light in weight, low in profile, fully accessible UniPanel consists 16 sub-panels distributed and simply Capped of Cable Trenches. These trenches house theRead… Read more »

Time is Precious

Creative Commons via Robbert van der Steeg on FlicKr None of us are born with the knowledge of how many days we have on this earth. I suppose, if we did, it might be a bit torturous….always wondering if we could cheat the certain hands of death. Today, I’m not going to write about socialRead… Read more »