An email yesterday from the Sunlight Foundation begins like this: Here’s the deal, friends: There is going to be more money in this election year than any mid-term election in history. Whether you think this is good or bad, the Supreme Court made their decision in January, and that’s just the way it is. TheRead… Read more »
Dipl.-Jur. Felix Zimmermann of kjur.de has posted jurMeta – New Metadata Initiative for Legal Documents, on the VoxPopuLII Blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School. Mr. Zimmermann’s post describes jurMeta, an innovative new metadata standard — still in development — for German-language legal resources. He relates how he and hisRead… Read more »
Happy Friday! In a not-so-subtle jab at bureaucratic language often found in U.S. Code or the Federal Register (“in witness thereof,” “notwithstanding” and “directive,” among other classics), the Center for Plain Language awarded its National ClearMark Awards on Thursday for the best and worst examples of language in government, business and the nonprofit community. TheRead… Read more »
poems. I had written ‘poets’ but then I realized that there are likely some poets out there, and artists too. That sounds ridiculous though, doesn’t it? We have to stay neutral being government and all.
i work at general work division. and our work is manage construction project or build some infrastructures like roads, irrigations, bridges, etc. actually, the project will be do by a construction company (contractor). but lately, we make our community get involve in to that project. so, the project is called rural infrastructure sector program. thereRead… Read more »
In an important industry contribution, The Open Group has published a white paper on how to build and measure cloud computing return on investment (ROI). Produced by the Cloud Business Artifacts (CBA) project of The Open Group Cloud Computing Work Group, the document: Introduces the main factors affecting ROI from Cloud Computing, and compares theRead… Read more »
When people speak of Web 2.0,And how cloud computing can make it so.Wikis, blogs, and all of these;My mind fills with possibilities.But even in light of this gifted son,I have to ask: “Whither Web 1?” Web 1 was once the shinning star.We were certain people would flock from near and far,To see the grand siteRead… Read more »
To a crowd of over 500 largely government web development managers and public relations professionals, panelist Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra, Macon Phillips, Special Assistant to the President and White House Director of New Media, and GSA Office of Citizen Services Associate Administrator David McClure, spoke to the GSA’s Web Developer Management University audienceRead… Read more »
Peter Kinnaird (a member of our community), Mario Romero, and Professor Gregory Abowd, all of the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, have posted Connect 2 Congress: Visual Analytics for Civic Oversight, a paper presented at CHI 2010: The 28th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, held 10-15 April 2010, in Atlanta,Read… Read more »
Historic AFGE Membership Increase also to be Addressed on “Inside Government” WASHINGTON—“Avatar” Director James Cameron, Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry, and Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) will be featured this week on the American Federation of Government Employees’ (AFGE) “Inside Government” radio show. The show will air on Friday, April 30 at 10 a.m.Read… Read more »