Yearly Archives: 2012

The Future of Air Force Cyber Warfare

As part of the Pentagon’s increasing focus on offensive computer network operations, on August 22, the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center issued a broad agency announcement inviting “concept papers addressing Information Operations(IO) focusing on Cyberspace Warfare Operations (CWO).” This pre-solicitation calls for ten page proposals with estimated prices and delivery periods for a wideRead… Read more »

The Rise of the Fifth Estate – a good yarn worth reading

This morning I read Greg Jerico’s book ‘The Rise of the Fifth Estate‘ which chronicles the rise of political blogging and social media reporting in Australia. Some of you may remember Greg better as Grog of Grogs Gamut, a blogger and former public servant, known for his detailed analysis of political and sporting matters. HeRead… Read more »

Top 10 Open Data Categories

Fascinating thread onCFA Brigade (sign up)- I love this because I think we often don’t spend enough time on what do citizens actually want (based on data, not just based on comments of the super engaged) ———————- Below is some info that we received from Socrata about the most popular data sets from the openRead… Read more »

TSP Talk – 08/25/12

The stock market closed out a rough week strongly as the 100-point gain in the Dow on Friday recouped almost half of the week’s earlier losses. On the week the Dow still lost 117-points and we now have some interesting technical setups forming. Here are the TSP fund returns for the week of August 20Read… Read more »

Defining Big Data for the Public CIO

The following is a piece I wrote for Public CIO. It is reposted here with their permission. I would appreciate your thoughts on this topic. How do you think public CIO’s should define Big Data? -bg Enterprise IT professionals, including public CIOs, have long recognized the power of data, and the exciting new sense-making capabilitiesRead… Read more »

7 Ideas on White House’s Project MyGov

One of the new Presidential Innovation Fellows project is Project MyGov: Reimagining the relationship between the federal government and its citizens through an online footprint developed not just for the people, but also by the people. myGov will rapidly prototype a streamlined and intuitive system for presenting information and accepting feedback around the needs ofRead… Read more »