Before you get too excited about Apple’s recent decision to give up DRM on its iTunes music service, be sure to read Apple Shows Us DRM’s True Colors by Richard Esquerra which appeared January 7, 2008 on Electronic Frontier Foundation’s blog. Esquerra lists all the remaining uses of “DRM” being made by Apple.
One of my favorite scenes in the movie Contact is when young Ellie Arroway’s father counsels her on the value of making incremental improvements in her short wave radio efforts: “Small moves, Ellie - small moves,” he tells her.
Analog to Digital Converter Box Coupons Are No Longer Available
I’m investigating ways to give up cable television due to the expense and lack of selectivity. This morning I applied for two coupons for analog to digital converter boxes, figuring I should be ready.
How We Use Media Will Drive Development of a Real Time Web
Why do we use media?
What got me thinking about this was a recent post by Robert Scoble about the “real-time web.” Scoble’s focus was on the technical standards and processes that are evolving to support the use of the web for instantaneous two way communication.
The table below lists the posts tagged on this web site with the category tag “eGovernment.”
Comments on the Federal Web Managers Council's "Putting Citizens First" White Paper
The “white paper” published by the Federal Web Managers Council in November of 2008, Putting Citizens First: Transforming Online Government. A White Paper Written for the 2008 – 2009 Presidential Transition Team, contains a series of common-sense recommendations that are clearly stated — and deceptive in their simplicity:
Are You Building Professional Relationships or a Publishing Platform?
Years ago when I first joined Linkedin I started receiving connection requests from people I’d never met before. Some were recruiters, some were fellow IT management consultants, and some were people I would probably never meet in a million years.
Last week I experimented with putting the following ad on the front right hand page of my web site:
I’ve been getting an increasing number of requests lately from friends and colleagues to explain or help with inividual blogging and professional networking practices. To help I’ve tagged a few of the entries on this web site with the category tag “basics.”
A Fire Upon the Web
In A Fire Upon the Deep, Vinge created a universe where different physical laws exist in different locations corresponding to different levels of communications and travel speed. This got me to thinking about the different levels of computing and networking that have existed and are evolving as arguments about what constitutes Web 2.0 continue.
Maddie Grant’s recent comment about everyone in an organization having responsibility for “community management” is a good one:
The presentation supported by this slide deck discussed some of the realities that individuals and organizations face when adopting social media and social networking tools and techniques.
How Closely do Traditional and Social Media Based Customer Support Services Need to be Coordinated?
In Five Challenges Government Faces When Adopting Web 2.0 I wrote about the need to consider the cost impact on the organization of hiring additional “community managers” to support the addition of social media and social networking to overall customer support operations:
How Social Are Obama's Social Media Initiatives, Really?
Articles such as The Los Angeles Times’ Obama, the first social media president are popping up in the mainstream media and in the blogosphere. The theme is that Obama’s successful use of the web and “social technologies” in his campaign portends a new, more open, and transformative approach to government and public sector transparency.
I’m tracking government employment opportunities and the potential for using information technology to help make government more open, responsive, transparent, and efficient.
The following are public bookmarks I’ve stored on del.icio.us that link to web pages I’ve tagged with both the terms “blogging” and “basics.”
Here are some more tips about starting your own professional blog.
In these heady days of transition, as we think about ways to improve government, it’s temping to over-sell the benefits of “Web 2.0.”
Why I Care about India's Chandrayaan-1 Lunar Mission
I’ve been tracking the progress of India’s Chandrayaan-1 lunar mission since its launch on October 22. Someone asked my why I care about the mission given that “we’ve already been to the moon.” Here’s why.