According to Ms. Martha Johnson, the Administrator of the General Services Administration, they try to fail fast, fail forward, and fail fruitfully. Ms. Johnson was the keynote speaker for the second day of the Coast Guard’s 10th annual “Innovation Expo” in Tampa, Florida earlier this month. I couldn’t attend, but I watched the streaming videoRead… Read more »
Leroy Jethro Gibbs heads up the high performance field team of misfits for NCIS. How does he get extraordinary results week after week? Rules, feedback, and required growth for his staff. Gibbs, a former Marine sniper demonstrates his personal competence and skill through results – not the least of which was shifting from a lonerRead… Read more »
Buy the pullback or prepare for a correction? Stocks lost ground last week giving the TSP stock funds a little haircut after the big gains during the first week in November. For the week, the C-fund lost 2.10%, the S-fund fell 2.00%, and the I-fund gave up 2.30%. Bonds (F-fund) were also down losing 0.79%,Read… Read more »
The first FCC developer day focused on open government innovation. For a day, the commission room that has hosted hearings on spectrum policy, licensing, mergers and net neutrality was full of geeks focused on making something useful from the FCC’s new APIs and open data stores. One of those geeks is well-known to many developers:Read… Read more »
HHS CTO Todd Park said as much in a recent interview. The first chief technology officer of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is doing more than just working to make community health data as useful as weather data. HHS CTO Todd_Park (@todd_park) is using Twitter to accomplish the core goals of hisRead… Read more »
One thing you don’t realize when you get to this stage of a doctoral program is that as you are writing your dissertation, you also start looking at the job market. I have an amazing teaching position right now, but, unfortunately, it’s a 4/4 load, which actually turns into a 5/5 because I teach anRead… Read more »
Now that we’ve had the opportunity to exercise our “civic duty” and vote, can we start trying to make our civics more civil? How have we come so far into a universe where rude behavior, hurtful language, and hateful attitudes are acceptable – not just among the young, crazy, fringe element – but even mainstream,Read… Read more »
Creating a virtual machine from scratch is a three step process. First I ran the New Virtual Machine wizard to create a virtual machine. The NewVirtual Machine wizard guided me through the key steps for setting up a new virtual machine, helping me set the virtual hardware specifications and other parameters. A virtual machine providesRead… Read more »
Originally posted at http://www.thehomelandsecurityblog.com/2010/11/12/privacy-and-security-implications-of-geo-location-social-media-tools/ Privacy and Security Implications of Geo-Location Social Media Tools 2010 November 12 tags: Facebook, fbplaces, Foursquare, geolocation, geotagging, internet privacy, internet security, privacy, security, Social Media by Sara Cohen Geo-location applications and technologies are quickly becoming the latest phenomenon in social media and information-sharing, due to the ease and speed withRead… Read more »
I could write a ton about what I mean by “Turn Down the Noise!”, but I think this video does a much better job setting the point I’m trying to make (please view it before reading the remainder of this blog entry)… Read more at Corner Alliance’s Blog.