By Bob Gourley As the saying goes, you should not believe everything you think. Actually, maybe a better saying is, don’t believe everything you read on the Internet. A recent study by a firm with a nice website and a long list of politicians as advisors has just published a study that says the USRead… Read more »
Everyday 2.5 quintillion bytes of new data are created (IBM: What is Big Data?). The increasing development of mobile technologies makes this data creation even easier by allowing us to search, upload, Tweet, photograph, and produce content from almost anywhere in the world at any time. With all this new, exciting data constantly surrounding us,Read… Read more »
One of the things I like about gov.uk is that if you spot a little glitch and ask them to fix it, they probably will. Even better, they make it easy to do that by having a feedback link on every page, thus encouraging behaviour which is to the benefit of all. Another thing IRead… Read more »
Some of us in the 1102 community have called for a TurboTax like solution to picking contract clauses for the past few years. Well, DOD has answered our prayers. http://www.acq.osd.mil/dpap/policy/policyvault/USA001481-13-DPAP.pdf
This is a case highlighting an employer’s affirmative legal obligation to reasonably accommodate disabled employees – http://lnkd.in/QM7Msq
Gadi Ben-Yehuda This week: Securities. On HowTo.Gov, Justin Herman exhorts his fellow govvies: “Government Must Rapidly Respond to Social Media Hacking“ FedTech reports that “Mobile Security Is Top of Mind for Government IT Professionals” which is important, becuase “For Defense Department Agencies, Mobile Technology Can Save Lives, Property and Time“ GovLoop and Symantec put “CyberRead… Read more »
This one comes to us from today’s headlines of today’s USDoL Newsletter… The full text of these findings are quite interesting: Opinion Poll: Small Businesses Support Increasing Minimum And how would this bottom-up stimulus effect Govies? How many of us feel like they we have “more purchasing power” these days? Would this type of increaseRead… Read more »
Here’s another reason why federal employee furloughs are a bad idea — http://washington-dc.tullylegal.com/news/furloughs-are-creating-security-clearance-worries-for-some-feds/
Alexander Howard – who, in my mind, is the best guy covering the Gov 2.0 space – pinged me the other night to ask “What’s the best evidence of open data leading to economic outcomes that you’ve seen?” I’d like to hack the question because – I suspect – for many people, they will beRead… Read more »
I find this stuff so you don’t have to: Ubuntu 13.04 Review: Linux for the average Joe or Jane Learning Pool Proud Sponsors of BlueLightCamp 2013 Digital Housing Hub welcomes it’s thousandth member! Building a network of trust around the Digital by Default Standard You should check out our Hangout tomorrow: Cloud, Big Data, IntegratedRead… Read more »