Yearly Archives: 2011

Technologists: Leverage Your Talent/Ideas/Experience To Contribute To The Digital Transportation Exchange

The Digital Transportation Exchange (DTE) is an online platform which seeks and supports innovation in global transportation initiatives. The US Department of Transportation (DOT) is championing this construct. Here is more info from their site at http://www.dot.gov/open/dte: The Digital Transportation Exchange (DTE) would connect citizens, businesses, state and local governments, industry, entrepreneurs, researchers, and investorsRead… Read more »

Starting up DaveMail

I had a go at doing an email newsletter once before – put a signup form here on the blog, got quite a few people to subscribe, and then never got round to sending a single issue. Useless! Part of my trouble then was that I wasn’t that comfortable with the software. Recently though, forRead… Read more »

NOTICE: FYI The source for these verbatim excerpts is ‘The Weekly Spark of September 2, 2011.’ The SPRC source often includes a note to pass their postings along to others where the content might be useful.This posting complies accordingly. Active links are located at: http://www.sprc.org/news/index.asp “Champions of Change: Suicide Prevention Resource Center builds national capacity.Read… Read more »

Redesign of CTOlabs.com

CTOlabs.com, a site we produce in service to enterprise CTOs seeking ideas, concepts and evaluations, has just undergone a major makeover focused on making content easier to discover. The layout is now presented in a newspaper format with large headlines, lots of images, and automated suggestions of content related to what you are looking at.Read… Read more »

A sinking feeling

I’m watching the wikileaks Twitter account with great interest right now. As I type this, there is a steady stream of accusations aimed at the Guardian newspaper streaming up my screen. One of the things which has been linked to is this. It is Arus Bridger confirming the terms of receipt of ‘package 3’, agreeingRead… Read more »

Education, Inc: A Conversation with the Texas Observer’s Abby Rapoport at Monkeywrench Books

Sep 13, 2011 at 7:00 pm MonkeyWrench Books 110 E. North Loop Austin, TX 512-407-6925 Please join MonkeyWrench Books and the Texas Observer for this conversation with Abby Rapoport. As the “education reform” movement has come to dominate policy, more and more education dollars find their way into mega-corporations. Testing contracts alone are worth hundredsRead… Read more »