Six months ago — in internet-time, “the Late Pleistocene” back when Google Wave roamed the Earth — people were decrying the immature state of Gov 2.0. In mid-March, Matt Rosenberg wrote an article for Social Capital Review responding to a post by Mark Drapeau that called for apps based on government data that had actualRead… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda: Eye on FDA: A Look at FDA’s Transparency Bloomberg: SEC’s New Jersey Fraud Case Seen as Harbinger in Muni Crackdown This week I seemed to find news about transparency (the good cop to accountability’s bad cop) in unlikely places. Or at least places I don’t normally look. The first is Mark Senak’s blog,Read… Read more »
From John Kamensky: Gov Exec: 2010 Census, after all the hoopla: “On time and under budget” Gov Exec: Defense abandons insourcing efforts: “we weren’t seeing the savings we had hoped for.” Gov Exec: Gates Announces DOD Cuts: Business Transformation Agency, Joint Forces Command, the CIO’s office all get the axe. The Center for American ProgressRead… Read more »
In the past couple of weeks, the DC metro area was wracked by massive storms that compounded commuting woes (and split an apartment building in half). My commuting time more than doubled. Much–maligned power company Pepco featured two Flickr feeds documenting the storm damage and indirectly making a strong case for teleworking. In the daysRead… Read more »
The Center for American Progress (CAP) found that millennials, defined as Americans between the ages of 18 and 32, have far greater faith in and expectations of government than their older compatriots. This proved true regardless of political affiliation or ideological bent. Two graphs from the report, “The Generation Gap on Government,” drive home theRead… Read more »
Give us your cookies, your browser history, your torrid search queries, yearning to breathe free. (Sorry, Emma.) That’s the deepest desire of online marketers, and it is thanks to them that we have so much content and so many applications available to us free, online, every day. Our data is valuable, but not in itselfRead… Read more »