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Yearly Archives: 2011
Open data apps can be difficult to sustain
Cities across the country have encouraged developers to use municipal data for mobile applications. But once the contest is over the apps can go dormant, Original post
Indiana moves to performance based model for teachers
Indiana will be changing the way teachers are evaluated and paid. Under a Senate bill signed on Friday, Indiana will now include teacher effectiveness benchmarks in its hiring, salary and promotions decisions. The bill is the first of Governor Mitch Daniels broad education reform agenda to pass both chambers and be signed into law. UnderRead… Read more »
Information Awareness Month
Greetings from the launch of Information Awareness Month 2011 in the Brindabella Room of the National Library of Australia in Canberra. The Director General of the library opened proceedings by mentioning the need to keep access to information for the public and the excellent way the NLA helps this with the Trove system.Bodies involved inRead… Read more »
There is no such thing as IT
I have cracked the problem of government IT. A few months ago, I argued that there is no such thing as the government. Now, in a further breakthrough, I have realised that there is no such thing as IT either. Putting those two thoughts together leads unavoidably to the conclusion that the problem of governmentRead… Read more »
LexisNexis Speaker Series Event – Title 11 and the Great Recession: Recent Trends in Business Reorganization
This free, 1 hour LexisNexis Speaker Series event being co-hosted by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation may be of interest to you if you are in the DC area. Here’s all the information: LexisNexis cordially invites you to attend the 2011 Speaker Series – “Title 11 and the Great Recession: Recent Trends in Business Reorganization“Read… Read more »
Structure of public expression online
Greetings from the Australian Demographic & Social Research Institute (ADSRI) at the Australian National Unviersity, where Hai Liang, Web Mining Lab, Department of Media & Communication, City University of Hong Kong s talking on “The structure of public expression and issue rise: Participation heterogeneity, concentration, and timing in internet forums”. He studied 3,000 posts toRead… Read more »
Cowpaths in Hyperspace
Greetings from the Australian Demographic & Social Research Institute (ADSRI) at the Australian National Unviersity, where Lingfei Wu, from the Web Mining Lab,City University of Hong Kong is talking on “How the Web1.0 fails: The mismatch between hyperlinks and user-flow”. He argues that rather than following the hyperlinks built into web sites, people follow otherRead… Read more »
A Trail Run and a Harmonious Customer Experience
I went for a trail run the other day. The air was warm and the sun was shining so I opted for an outdoor experience. I brought along everything I would need – my Vibram FiveFingers® shoes, Nike Dri-Fit running apparel, Oakley sunglasses, Coppertone sunscreen and Apple iPod. Although I had purchased these products fromRead… Read more »
Convert DoD Guides into eBooks
An Open Letter to DOD, Release your guides like the Defense Acquisition Guidebook and DOD IP Guide in ebook formats. Ebook sales now outpace hardback sales on Amazon. The times are changing and so should the release of DOD guide formats. Yes, I can download the information as a PDF, but that’s a pain becauseRead… Read more »