If you haven’t read Tzeporah Berman’s Daily Kos piece – My Government Doesn’t Believe in Climate Change – go check it out. It’s amazing to see how out of sync, and behind the ball, the government has gotten on this issue. Indeed, the current government really is becoming the best weapon opponents to the pipelinesRead… Read more »
Marcia Smith writes in SpacePolicyOnline.com concerning NASA’s asteroid return mission unveiled in the President’s budget for fiscal year 2014: All in all, however, the White House and NASA may be exacerbating the challenge of winning support from Congress and other stakeholders. Some officials are using imprecise terminology, there is confusion over the relationship of thisRead… Read more »
I woke up this morning and checked my work email. Nothing new. Nothing interesting. As I browse the IRWeb, my internal IRS website, I notice that Wage and Investment has appointed a new executive to lead the Modernization Office. This is great news. Certainly…it is wonderful to hear that someone got promoted….wait, what? Someone gotRead… Read more »
Writing is a form of processing my ideas. Dave Winer Original post
Reading for me is a solitary activity, I have to admit. But others like being members of reading groups and so on – and who am I to judge them? I linked recently to an article on Gizmodo asking why ebooks are so much like paper books – in other words, why don’t they innovateRead… Read more »
I’ve managed to organise with The Australian Centre for Social Innovation (TACSI), for two of their leading codesign practitioners to provide a presentation on codesign (a highly collaborative approach to community engagement) in Canberra from 6pm on Monday 29 April 2013. TACSI, which was seed funded by the South Australian Government, has led a numberRead… Read more »
Social media has gotten a bit of a bad rap during the Boston bomber manhunt. But I think Airbnb’s effort to help provide housing assistance during the scare is a better representation of the role social media can and should play during a crisis. Original post
I find this stuff so you don’t have to: ROUGH JUSTICE: Jo Smith is clearing her name GIS Watch 2012 article: Who is doing what when it comes to technology for transparency, accountability and anti-corruption Goldilocks for grey-haired geeks The market for paid iOS apps isn’t dead Writing guidance for the service design manual HowRead… Read more »
A while back I was working on a project to change an alley from a typical asphalt driveway to a pedestrian walkway. Because it is in a downtown area, this project allows for many design opportunities to enhance the downtown area and the pedestrian experience. During its planning stage, we had a lot of inputRead… Read more »
Volatility picked up last week as the Dow started the week with a 266-point loss on Monday, then a 158-point gain on Tuesday, another 138-point loss on Thursday, then an 81-point loss on Thursday and, even though the Dow was up only 10-points on Friday, the S&P 500 was up almost 1% on the day.Read… Read more »