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2009 Highlights
It’s the end of the year, and the end of a decade. What were my favorite projects of 2009? What did I have the most fun working on? Murder in Ocean Hall I can’t help myself, I like to write … Continue reading
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The Disintermediation Moment
With the advent of the Barnes and Noble Nook e-reader and the growing acceptance of e-books among readers and writers, it’s safe to say that we’ve reached what I’d call the Disintermediation Moment. This is the time when industries collapse, … Continue reading
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The Internet Life of One Photo
A few weeks ago, I received the following email: Hi Joe, I moved from Scottsdale, Arizona, to California last summer, and brought an unfinished painting of Papago Buttes along with me. I looked around for a photograph to help me … Continue reading
Coding HTML By Hand in Government
Gwynne Kostin has written about how efforts like the Online Presidential Town Hall can reveal larger problems. In her article, she mentions that world-class government web sites, like the Centers for Disease Control, hand-code web pages. Most large-scale web sites use … Continue reading
Why Doesn’t Government Use the Web to Organize Its Work?
I’ve been reading Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky. It’s a brilliant book on the information revolution that we’re going through. He believes that this revolution is as momentous as the development of the printing press, which triggered the Reformation … Continue reading
Vivek Kundra at FOSE on Transforming Government
Vivek Kundra is the newly appointed Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the federal government. He is the first federal CIO ever and previously served as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the District of Columbia. He spoke this morning at FOSE, … Continue reading
Chris Anderson on “Delivering on the Promise of Gov 2.0″
Chris Anderson, of Wired magazine and “The Long Tail” fame, was the keynote speaker at FOSE this morning. He spoke on “For the People and By the People: Delivering on the Promise of Gov 2.0″. Anderson started off with an interesting … Continue reading
Friday’s Links
Here’s what’s interested me this week: Government 2.0: The Midlife Crisis Hard truths about the difficulties of implementing Web 2.0 in government. It’s Time for Governance Even more hard truths, this time about professionalizing web site management in government. Wil … Continue reading
More Thoughts on Transparency Camp 09
Some more random thoughts about Transparency Camp 09. Here are my big take-aways from the conference. Excitement: There’s a tremendous amount of enthusiasm among enlightened advocates of government transparency, fueled by the election of Obama and the mainstreaming of Web … Continue reading
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Transparency Camp 09: Pushing Government Forward
What’s Transparency Camp? This un-conference is about convening a trans-partisan tribe of open government advocates from all walks — government representatives, technologists, developers, NGOs, wonks and activists — to share knowledge on how to use new technologies to make … Continue reading