Who Is Better At Making Government Data Useful?

Dennis D. McDonald
Copyright, Data Access, Governance, Policy, Publishing, Regulation, eGovernment
Craig Thomler’s Make government data freely available neatly lays out, from an Australian’s perspective, a discussion of how the public can benefit if government agencies make raw data available for access by individuals and organizations who then analyze or present that data in a useful way. These points are from Thomler’s conclusions:

Is RSS a Victim of its own Success?

Dennis D. McDonald
Bookmarks, Grazr, How To, RSS, Tagging, del.icio.us
At last night’s Meeting VI of the Alexandria Web Strategy Discussion Group, convened at New Target in Alexandria, Virginia, Maddie Grant raised the topic of RSS feeds. She’s tried a number of readers and now she uses Google Reader. Still, she complains about the problems with setting up readers and especially the challenges of explaining the process to other users. In her mind, RSS has not lived up to its promise.

There's Nothing Wrong with the Social Networking Industry that Some Honest (Cost) Information Won't Fix

Dennis D. McDonald
Change, Collaboration, Cost Analysis, DataPortability, Enterprise 2.0, , , , Software, Standards, Strategy, Web 2.0
Jeremiah Owyang’s LiveBlog: What’s Wrong with the White Label Social Networking Industry?, especially if you read the comments, delivers a good snapshot of the gaps that still exist between product evangelism and the realities of implementing specialized online social networks.
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