Months before I planted my organic garden, I read & read. I made my garden map. strategically placing my herbs, flowers, and veggies for optimum fertilization and growth. I used cedar as the base for my raised bed. I secured the bed with chicken wire. My version of Green Computing. As I sat on myRead… Read more »
Hope everybody gets to enjoy a day to reflect on all of the sacrifices that were made…. so that we can all have opinions, and facebook, and criticize our leaders, and trash-talk politics, and get a free education, and start up our own businesses, and run our households as we see fit, and do everythingRead… Read more »
My friend Sylvia Harris, and her pals at Design For Democracy have proposed a terrific idea: clear labels for credit cards, just like we have for food. Good information design promotes good democracy. Check out the article at the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/opinion/24gibson.html
You can’t follow Tim Berners-Lee on Twitter, but you can on identi.ca, a microblogging service that runs on open source software. And while I wouldn’t dream of giving up Twitter any time soon, an open source platform may offer some interesting options for governments. For example, could this software be used to run an internalRead… Read more »
My own contribution to the request for ideas on the Open Government Dialog site is: http://ideascale.com/r/2932-4049 Because it comes out poorly formatted on the site, I suggest you read it here: http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/05/local-forums-to-implement-high.html I’ll include a couple highlights here. High-speed digital networking (also known as “broadband”) should concern open government advocates in two ways. First, oneRead… Read more »
(Previously published on “Cloud Musings“) For some reason, this week seems to have more in it than most. While the steady stream of briefing request seem to be increasing, the post briefing discussions also seem to be much more intense. The cloud computing education phase seems to also be morphing into a cloud computing implementationRead… Read more »
Please check out Data.Gov and the Apps for America Contest: Sunlight Labs Contest: Apps for America is a special contest we’re putting on this year to celebrate the release of Data.gov! We’re doing it alongside Google, O’Reilly Media, and TechWeb and the winners will be announced at the Gov 2.0 Expo Showcase in Washington, DCRead… Read more »
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So, I am officially two weeks, three projects, one group meeting and eight evaluations away from being done with my frist year of my Masters of Public Policy! I’m grateful for the experience of working full-time while going to school but starting to question whether it’s possible to do both well while maintaining my sanityRead… Read more »
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For those of you that read my last post on our new Social Media Policy, here’s the companion document that describes the duties and responsibilities expected from the peer oversight group, obliquely named the “Web 2.0 Working Group.” We’re hoping a more creative name for the group will emerge in time, but for now maybeRead… Read more »
It’s certainly true of journalists and in all types of other professions, but this week’s Best Places to Work data definitely confirms that some federal employees much prefer toiling in the field rather than working at headquarters. Sarah Palin Take EPA for example: two of its regional offices, in San Francisco and Philadelphia, rank amongRead… Read more »
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