Carmel on LegisLink.Org: Simplified Human-Readable URLs for Legislative Citations

Joe Carmel, formerly of the U.S. House of Representatives Legislative Computer Systems Unit, has posted LegisLink.Org: Simplified Human-Readable URLs for Legislative Citations, on the VoxPopuLII Blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School. In his post, Mr. Carmel describes LegisLink.org, an innovative, collaboratively developed URL redirection service for legislative documents. LegisLinkRead… Read more »

Everything Channel: 2010 State of the Market

Today, I attended Everything Channel’s 2010 State of the Market presentation, a great annual scorecard on the state of technology solutions provider channels. The typical survey respondent books about $3.5 million in annual revenues, in b-2-b transactions (no retail data here) so it’s a real-world look at issues facing technology solutions providers across many verticalRead… Read more »

Customers Know Best – It’s Their Results That Count

Have you discovered Anne Holland’s wonderful website, “Which Test Won?” I discovered it through a recent Gerry McGovern article, “It’s Not What People Say – It’s What They Do;” and – of course – I had to play. Each week, Anne posts two side-by-side test sites. She tells you what specific element or words wereRead… Read more »

Latest from Netherlands “GovLoop” – Civil Servant 2.0

Used Google Translate to offer the GovLoop community a glimpse of what’s happening with a sister community over in the Netherlands: Week 28 … Again, no World Cup, a grand welcome in Amsterdam. Netherlands loves to celebrate. The heat of summer days and holidays will thus gradually affect the activities ambtenaar20.nl. Also for editors. ThisRead… Read more »

Israel’s Top Secret Base Exposed on Facebook

What is going on these days? It seems that the Internet and social networking has made the world flat. What do we mean by this? Well, amateur sleuths can serve as GEOINT analysts by finding top secret locations in North Korea on Google Earth. And, now it was just reported that a Facebook group forRead… Read more »

Engaging Consumers in Cyber Security: It’s Up to You

In a perfect world, consumers recognize authentic emails from fake, update their operating system, browser and anti-virus software, and have a healthy skepticism about the safety of the Internet. The bad guys hate perfect, so we should be working with consumers to stop them. I deal with the ugly aftermath of one type of cybercrime,Read… Read more »

Cybersecurity Chief to Obama: “We Need a Meeting”

They say that those who call for a meeting usually have the upper hand. Typically, this is the motivated party who wants to produce results. We hope this is the case with White House cybersecurity coordinator Howard Schmidt calling for a meeting with President Obama and crew today to discuss progress and ways to moveRead… Read more »

CB2: Will We Ever Prepare for Disasters?

Where to begin? How does someone who has dedicated the better part of the past 5 years to family disaster preparedness come to terms with the conclusion that people who prepare will always represent such a tiny minority? In this week’s CB2, I’ll break from the oil spill temporarily to present an issue that’s beenRead… Read more »

Bruce on Technical Principles for Law.gov

Video and audio are available for Tom Bruce’s presentation on Technical Principles for Law.gov, given 18 June 2010 at the Harvard Law.gov Workshop at the Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. The video and audio are provided by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. The presentation focuses on five proposedRead… Read more »

A conversation with the US Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa

With the World Cup now at an end I wanted to learn more about the efforts, with regards to social organizational processes, of the United States in this area of the world. With this in mind I reached out to the US Embassy in Pretoria to ask a few questions. They were kind enough toRead… Read more »

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