At the end of last year, I published a post exploring copyright issues titled “How Much Credit Do You Have to Give?” Recently Bay Sweetwater contacted me to let me know some important information related to copyright and the Terms of Use for Second Life. She also shared a link to a very informative, copyright-relatedRead… Read more »
Today I tried out Street Bump – a mobile application designed and developed by Connected Bits, LLC and produced by the Mayor’s office of Boston. This application, available for the iPhone, picks up bumps in the road as people drive along a street with their phone. Because smoothness or “the ride” is one component weRead… Read more »
This month marks the sixth anniversary of the start of this blog. With so many new readers visiting each year, I realize many might not know why this blog was started. So I thought I’d take a few moments to revisit the original reason the Public Works Group was formed and how it has evolved.Read… Read more »
Many people might be surprised to find out there is a virtual real estate market and have had a hard time understanding how someone could pay money for something that you can’t physically touch like virtual land. Before visiting virtual worlds myself, I would not have believed people would pay money for something like that.Read… Read more »
Below is a press release from the Illinois Society of Professional Engineers regarding an update to the Standard Specifications for Water and Sewer Construction in Illinois: Recommendations Sought for Illinois Water & Sewer Construction Guide Comment Period Open through April 16 (Springfield, Ill.) The Illinois Society of Professional Engineers along with partner organizations seek recommendedRead… Read more »
Well now that the dust has settled on the CCDD regulations, many of us are figuring out how we are going to manage the material in order to comply with the law. Basically, the process for many of us will be some modification of the following: Determine if the excavation is near a Potentially ImpactedRead… Read more »
Last year a neighboring community applied for a grant to attend a week-long class – E930: Community Specific Integrated Emergency Management Course – at the Emergency Management Institute (EMI) in Emmitsburg, Maryland. After hearing they received the grant, they invited other agencies to attend with them. Fortunately I was one of the people invited andRead… Read more »
The other day my friend, LuAnn Strine Phillips, posted a link on Facebook to a project she’s been working on: a winter safety game created in Second Life. Since cold weather safety is important to public works professionals, I visited her site to check it out. I landed in what looked to be a pineRead… Read more »
Over the last few days I’ve been exposed to two ideas that interest me in how each demonstrates the need to properly vet an idea. (As an aside for for all of you familiar with MMORPGs: I figure if life was a game, “Vetting an Idea” would be considered a passive ability for those inRead… Read more »
With the dawning of a new year I see so many people talking about their resolutions and goals for 2013. Annual goal setting is not really something I’ve dedicated much time to in the past. Instead, I always seemed to follow a rolling, unwritten list of goals that are separate from the ones I haveRead… Read more »