The government is awash with acronyms. New acronyms are created daily. Acronyms create a barrier to understanding if they cannot be easily resolved, where easy = universal and universal = URL. There are many online dictionaries with entries that are found in Web searches. However, these return results only in highly formatted, not-well-formed HTML thatRead… Read more »
For those interested in the intersection of Open Government and new web technologies: Beth Noveck (United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Open Government) will be taking questions from Tim O’Reilly at this years Web 2.0 conference in New York City. You can propose and/or vote on questions at: http://w2e.crowdcampaign.com
So late this evening, I’m musing over how to harness the power of social media and it hits me: I’m nuts. I’ve always been a little nuts. I can’t be the only one. We should celebrate our nuts and use them to change the world! Did you ever have a crazy idea that just doesn’tRead… Read more »
Originally posted on “TalkStandards”, 11th November 2009 There is no debate that standards have always played an important role in the design and delivery of eGovernment systems, since the mid-1990s we have been seeing standards play critical roles in data exchange, authentication and the way that information is ultimately presented back to the user. EarlyRead… Read more »
Watch closely the first 8 or 9 seconds of this video… …Got it? … No rain, no rainbows? Good. Now, how often as IT are we in that “no rain, no rainbows” guy’s shoes? That poor guy went to a lot of planning, time, and effort to make sure that bride had rainbows on herRead… Read more »
Early last year we had a significant snow storm that caused many avalanches in places along I-90 in central Washington that hadn’t seen avalanches before. One of these avalanches took out a popular Web camera. Immediately after the camera was taken offline by an avalanche negative feedback started coming in as users of our siteRead… Read more »
There is a chapter in Keith Sawyer’s Group Genius book titled Collaboration Over Time where Sawyer refers to several inventions and discoveries, including Morse’s first working telegraph line and Darwin’s The Origin of the Species to make the point that: Collaboration makes the mind more creative because working with others gives you new and unexpectedRead… Read more »
Letters sent to tens of thousands of employees in the Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program contained errors in calculating potential premiums, the Office of Personnel Management announced Friday. The errors mean enrollees now have until March 15, 2010 to review their options and make final decisions on coverage. OPM learned of the errors fromRead… Read more »
Non-twit-oholics always ask me, “What’s the point? Why Twitter?” I’m sorry. That’s like asking me, “Why chocolate?” My answer, “Take the first bite, then we’ll talk.” But, some still need convincing. I mean really. You know those types. The ones who look at the chocolate cheesecake with swirls of whipped cream…and walk away. Yeah, thoseRead… Read more »
Headlines: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The alleged mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and four others will be sent for prosecution in a criminal court in New York from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, an Obama administration official said on Friday. The decision today by the Obama administration toRead… Read more »