Electric tricycles come to the Philippines
The Philippines is testing 20 electric tricycles in metro Manila as part of an effort to improve air quality and reduce dependence on imported fuel. Original post
Miscellaneous
Golden Gate Ferry adds ticket machines, loses workers
Golden Gate Ferry (CA) expects to save $6.2 million over the next 10 years by installing 12 ticket vending machines at its terminals. Original post
Designing for Democratic Dialogue
I will be speaking on “Designing for Democratic Dialogue: More then Mating iPads” at Meta 2011, Australian National University, 25 to 27 May, 2011 .Name: Tom WorthingtonTitle: Adjunct Senior LecturerOrganisation: Research School of Computer Science, The Australian National UniversityStream: Overcoming obstacles in the Execution process – challenges and solutionsYour session title: Original post
Electric motorcycle with tablet computer dashboard
T3 Motion’s R3 prototype electric car/motorcycle is reported to have a Galaxy Tab Android tablet computer docked in the dashboard for navigation and entertainment. The R3 has four wheels and two side by side bucket seats like a car, but T3 Motion claim that the rear wheels are so close together that it handles likeRead… Read more »
Top 5: Awesome Ways USDA Reworked Its New Website
9:30pm last night USDA launched their Department-wide website redesign. From the beginning, they set out to tackle quite the challenge: Here’s what they faced: Do completely in-house working with a limited budget/resources Design an easy to navigate homepage to get citizens to the right place, and on their way effectively and efficiently Coordinate with 29Read… Read more »
Who is a ‘quality’ website visitor?
Steph Gray @lesteph recently highlighted an article by Gerry McGovern on the The accidental website visitor. Gerry talks about how a website significantly improved its satisfaction levels once it was attracting the right, but smaller audience. This made me think about who is the ‘right kind’ of website visitor? Are they one of us? DoRead… Read more »
Announcing MailCamp: effective email marketing in the public sector
A cross post from Steph’s blog to help publicise this event! Just a quick one to pimp MailCamp11, a free show + tell event about email marketing in the public sector, now confirmed for 12 May at the Dept of Communities and Local Government. Everyone’s on a budget, and wants to make their digital channelsRead… Read more »
Vermont works to advance statewide broadband access
The Vermont Senate is working to advance broadband in the state with new legislation. The bill would fulfill a long standing goal of making broadband internet and cellular phone service available statewide and would begin looking at ways to upgrade the state’s electrical grid through smart grid technology. The state laid out these initiatives fourRead… Read more »
Vermont works to advance statewide broadband access
The Vermont Senate is working to advance broadband in the state with new legislation. The bill would fulfill a long standing goal of making broadband internet and cellular phone service available statewide and would begin looking at ways to upgrade the state’s electrical grid through smart grid technology. The state laid out these initiatives fourRead… Read more »
Water Resources Seen in a New Way
It is easy to say that the nation’s water resources are interconnected and that what happens upstream can have major consequences for downstream areas. But it is much harder to convey these points in a relevant way to a nation of city-dwellers. However, cartographer Daniel Huffman has found a new and refreshing way to showRead… Read more »