Montreal launches, retools, text-alert system
STM (QC) has relaunched its new service alert system after glitches forced the agency to shut down the system only hours after introducing it last week. Original post
Oyster card changes announced
At a rail summit chaired by Mayor of London Boris Johnson, participants agreed to a series of changes to make travel easier throughout the region. Original post
Sad realisations
When I first started this blog, I wrote it because I wanted to share what I knew – because I knew some stuff other people seemed to need/want to know and keeping it all to myself seemed wrong. I joined Twitter around the same time, and there was a big group of people in localRead… Read more »
Kajoo asks citizens to hack their city
For those involved with civic hacking activities, the next phase is always up for debate. New applications, ideas and people are entering the space every day. The team behind Kajoo hopes to add a new spin on civic hacking with their application, which was launched over the weekend at SXSW. CivSource spoke with Dan Walmsley,Read… Read more »
Twitter and the Job Search
Q: what is the best way to use twitter to get noticed and to job search? . There are many ways to use Twitter for the job search. First, following organizations and people who tweet about topics of interest to you is an excellent way to gather information about trends that affect your job market.Read… Read more »
New Standard Makes the Web More Energy Efficient
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced version 1.0 of the “Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Format” (10 March 2011). EXI represents XML data in a more compact binary format, with a claimed 100-fold performance improvement. W3C see this being used for smart phones, sensor networks, cameras, auto-mobiles, real-time trading systems, high speed aircraft.So far EXIRead… Read more »
On public comment and public officials — PJ Crowley, Stanley McChrystal and glass jaws
Another high profile public official has fallen by the wayside with the resignation over the weekend of the US State Department’s PJ Crowley for making public, on-the-record comments on his views with respect to the detention of PFC Bradley Manning. When you look at this in the context of the resignation of General Stanley McChrystalRead… Read more »
3 Conversations I’d Have at the Government Web and New Media Conference
This week – March 17-18 – is the annual Government Web and New Media Conference in Washington DC. This conference, which is sponsored by the Federal Web Managers Council and the General Services Administration, is THE event for web communicators at all levels of government. In addition to having great “how-to” sessions, you’ll hear inspirationalRead… Read more »
Member of the Week: Dick Davies
This week’s featured member is Dick Davies – check him out! 1. What was your path to public service? “I have always been active in civic projects, it’s a responsibility of being a citizen. I first got heavily involved in federal government service during the Y2K transformation, and have had leadership roles in several transformativeRead… Read more »
Why I’m Not at SXSW This Year
SXSW in 2007 SXSW Interactive is an annual conference of social media and web geeks in Austin. It’s a huge, exhausting event that takes place over a long weekend in March and is popularly known as the conference that introduced Twitter and other new forms of communication. The criticism now is that it’s gotten tooRead… Read more »