A few months ago, I had the privilege of outlining Citizinvestor‘s long-term vision for crowdfunding government projects at a TEDx event in Tampa, Florida. Here’s video of my talk: I would love to hear what you think about this idea! Please leave your thoughts in a comment below.
A lot of people are unwilling to innovate online because they’re worried it’ll go badly. After all, there’s a story every week in the media about someone ballsing up online in one way or another. It strikes me, from only a cursory examination of a lot of these stories, that most of the time, peopleRead… Read more »
The following is a beginning collection of resources from the National Forums Institute news page that may be helpful to those who would like to deliberate about violence, and/or to frame violence-related issues. NIF is known for its careful, well-researched strategies for “naming and framing” issues in a balanced way that represents a variety ofRead… Read more »
The American Federation of Government Employees is calling on members of Congress to reject a proposal that would extend the two-year pay freeze on federal employees for another year. Federal employees already have sacrificed $103 billion over 10 years to deficit reduction. President Obama has delayed until April the already-paltry 0.5% adjustment proposed for 2013,Read… Read more »
AFGE Public Policy Director Jacque Simon recently appeared on Federal News Radio to discuss a proposed bill that would extend the pay freeze for federal employees. The bill was rejected by the Senate but is expected to return to the floor. Listen to the radio interview here. Click here to learn more about the radioRead… Read more »
More complicated doesn’t necessarily mean better Today we have more data than yesterday. This is simple fact and the trend is only accelerating. Facebook alone adds more than 500TB of data every day, including more than 300 million new photos. Many Fortune 500 hundred companies employ thousands of servers with technology companies like Akamai, whichRead… Read more »
Sure enough, 2013 has arrived and the world did not end, which contrary to popular belief was never actually predicted by the Mayan people in the first place. As for my own little world, things just got a lot more interesting as my wife and I welcomed Logan Carter Kujawski (our first child) into ourRead… Read more »
The IBM Center’s newly-released “Next Four Years” Resource Center updates its 2009 Presidential Transition materials for new political appointees. But it offers more in the way of other good government imperatives that will challenge leaders tomorrow. There are six “go to” topics in the IBM Center’s Resource Center for incoming new political appointees as wellRead… Read more »
By RyanKamauff Here are the top tech news and stories of the day. 13 energy data startups to watch in 2013 – GigaOM has a great list of Big Data startups to worry about in the near future. These big data startups focus on helping energy firms get better at saving money, and saving energy.Read… Read more »
Last year, Imade some resolutions. I even made them rhyme: Generate, Discriminate, Donate. How’d I do? Well, I did indeed generate: longer pieces, shorter pieces, tweets, presentations. The whole shebang, as my grandfather might have said. And I did discriminate, though less successfully. In the heat of a hot election, I read more empty prognosticationRead… Read more »