Looxcie is a great device that lets you film exactly what you see. I’ve been testing one out for the last several weeks and have enjoyed learning about it and thinking about its potential uses in the enterprise. It has a lightweight, over the ear form factor that frees your hands and eyes up whileRead… Read more »
Professor Jeffrey Ullman will sepak on Map-Reduce and its Children, 21st February 2011 in Canberra.Professor Jeffrey UllmanMap-Reduce and Its ChildrenAbstractSince its publication by Google researchers in 2004, Map-reduce has proven to be a significantadvance in programming methodology that offers resilient, easy-to-code parallel computation ona modern computing cluster or “cloud.” It has led to Original post
Many of us in the #gov20 space are trying to sort through the conundrum of #crisisdata, the result of seemingly endless Facebook posts, tweets, videos, photos and more. There’s great work going on at Crisis Commons and they’ve literally helped people and save lives. For those of us in emergency operations centers and joint informationRead… Read more »
Stephen Schultze of Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy has posted PACER, RECAP, and the Movement to Free American Case Law, on the VoxPopuLII Blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School. In this post, Mr. Schultze describes the origins of RECAP, an innovative project to publicly disseminate U.S. federal courtRead… Read more »
Last year’s was awesome, and now the 2011 conference is coming. These are a few photos of brainstorming sessions. Take a look. If there’s an idea up there that you would like to see, let us know. See and download the full gallery on posterous Permalink | Leave a comment » Original post
A Survey of Course Content Authoring Tools is being conducted by Lachlan Blackhall from the Educational Development Group, College of Engineering & Computer Science at the Australian National University. This is to see which would be suitable for engineering and computer science courses. Lachlan would like to get input from beyond the ANU and educatorsRead… Read more »
The federal government’s new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has launched a new Web site and social media tools. Original post
The Career Dropout Movement: Career Dropout is a cultural movement for fearless individuals who’ve amassed dreams and passions beyond their 9-to-5 jobs. This movement is inspiring, liberating and creative, because so many people have suppressed their dreams in the name of conformity, stability, expectation, and financial gain; usually based on their pursuits of career attainment,Read… Read more »
The Career Dropout Movement: Career Dropout is a cultural movement for fearless individuals who’ve amassed dreams and passions beyond their 9-to-5 jobs. This movement is inspiring, liberating and creative, because so many people have suppressed their dreams in the name of conformity, stability, expectation, and financial gain; usually based on their pursuits of career attainment,Read… Read more »
Earlier today, in an attempt to pump up the crowd at a GovDelivery event, Steve Ressler tossed a GovLoop “Gov Rock Star T-shirt” out into the crowd. It’s soared sky high….. …..and then it landed on a water pitcher spilling water everywhere! It was oh so close to being awesome. Find more videos like thisRead… Read more »