Editorial: A Safety Net for Online Shoppers
Businesses and consumers agree that saying “no” means “no.” But does not saying “no” – or simply remaining silent – qualify as a “yes?” Some marketers seem to think so. Original post
Home Page Heat Maps
At EPA, we’ve started using regular heat maps to experiment and assess success on our home page. These visual presentations show where people are clicking – hotter colors mean more clicks. Every month, we update our popular topics list based on what people are searching for. We also often try out new features. So weRead… Read more »
Rock Star Conditioning: 4 things you can do today to bring out your inner business Rock Star
The start of a New Year for most means time to wax nostalgically on the previous year and set out to embark on the New Year with all kinds of well-meant resolutions for the future. I, like many others, have set audacious goals for myself with every intention of following through and like many othersRead… Read more »
Possible Explosive Device Rendered Safe by Bomb Squad
Incident: Homemade Explosive Device Date and Time of Release: January 14, 2011 / 1:30 pm At about 10:00 am on Friday morning, 01/14/11, Arcadia Police Officers were called to Foothills Middle School, 171 E. Sycamore in Arcadia, regarding a suspicious person on the campus who tried to open up several classrooms. The reporting party sawRead… Read more »
Honourable Mention! The Mozilla Visualization Challenge Update
Really pleased to share that Diederik and I earned an honourable mention for our submission to the Mozilla Open Data Competition. For those who missed it – and who find opendata, open source and visualization interesting – you can read a description of and see images from our submission to the competition in this blogRead… Read more »
Gov 2.0 Roundup: Week of January 14
Drupal comes to Capitol Hill, on the lookout for civic innovation, and rulemaking 2.0, all in this week’s edition of the Gov 2.0 Roundup. –If you thought the White House and Congress couldn’t agree on anything, think again. The U.S. House of Representatives announced this week that Drupal, the platform on which whitehouse.gov is built,Read… Read more »
Delivering the Goods, January 2011: MH-60T and Cutter Boats
The January 2011 edition of Delivering the Goods: News from the Coast Guard Acquisition Directorate was released within the past hour and now it’s here for you. In this months issue we’re given a look into the upgrades to the MH-60T (Upgraded MH-60T Helicopters Provide More Capabilities) and the future of the fleet is discussedRead… Read more »
EPA Call for Proposals for 2011 Public Engmt Conf, due Feb 18
The US Environmental Protection Agency has announced its 2011 Community Involvement Training Conference from July 19-21 in Arlington, Va. This year’s conference theme is “Community Involvement in… This is a content summary only. Visit my blog for the complete post, links and more. Original post
*BREAKING* DHS cancels SBInet
The SBInet program is no more, the Homeland Security Department announced January 14. Instead, the department will launch a new border security technology approach, “which will utilize existing, proven technology tailored to the distinct terrain and population density of each border region,” DHS says in a fact sheet (.pdf). “SBInet cannot meet its original objectiveRead… Read more »
Suicide Prevention and “Doing Something”
MMoldeven San Diego San Diego Comment I was getting well into being an ‘older adult’ during ‘Viet Nam’ working as a civil servant in the IG shop on a major USAF installation in central California. The facility, among its many responsibilities, was to serve as another gateway for Armed Forces to and from Southeast Asia.Read… Read more »