I usually don’t pay much attention to “death of” web posts — unless I’m writing them, of course — but Kevin Cavanaugh’s Death of the Document is definitely worth a read.
Content May Not Be King But It Still Behaves Like Royalty
One of my favorite media commentators is Jeff Jarvis. I especially enjoy his weekly converaations hosted by Leo Laporte on This Week in Google. Jarvis’ perspective always gets at the big picture of what’s happening with the web economy.
Here are five things that people introducing new technology to help collaboration should think about:
Google’s announcement of its Chromebook is more evidence of the shifting nature of technology-supported computing & communication ecosystems. It signifies more than just a continued “movement to the cloud.”
Studying the Dawn of the Social Age
Listening to Melvyn Bragg’s recent BBC podcast Dawn of the Iron Age got me thinking about what future historians and digital archeologists might conclude about us from examining what’s left of our fledgling online social experiences.
Are smartphones bad for collaboration? Sometimes I think so. Here’s why:
How to Participate in the National Academy of Engineering's "Changing the Conversation" Project
Recently I was honored to serve as a “digital strategy” consultant on the National Academy of Engineering’s Changing the Conversation project.
In Preparing your agency for big cuts ahead, Tom Fox wrote this about the coming Federal agency staff reductions:
Back in February 2009 in Challenges Facing Recovery.gov and the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board I wrote the following about making Federal stimulus spending data more accessible and “transparent” to the public:
Honest, if you want to poison your kids and rot their teeth with this stuff, that’s your prerogative.
Why Do We Have to "Innovate"?
In Innovation Policy + Deficit Reduction = Politics As Usual? I described some of the policy debates concerning the appropriate role of the Federal government in promoting the types of innovation that can eventually simulate the U.S. economy and U.S. employment. There are many different practical, political, and philosophical issues involved in these debates that seem, to me, to boil down to basic and longstanding disagreements about the roles of the Federal government and the private sector.
Last year my favorite DC-based thinktank, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), launched a blog titled Innovation Policy Blog, subtitled “Innovation is Not a Partisan Issue.”
Well, innovation may not be a partisan issue, but I learned today that innovation policy certainly can be.
Federal Computer Week recently published my op-ed piece Why best practices won’t fix Federal IT. I’d be very interested in hearing from GovLoop members what they think of it.
Using Roku: Week 4
I’ve been using the Roku box for over a month now.
I like this product a lot.
In December 2010, federal CIO Vivek Kundra released an ambitious “25-Point Implementation Plan to Reform Federal Information Technology Management.” No. 10 on that list is: “Launch a best practices collaboration platform.”
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Recently a friend asked for tips, on behalf of a friend, for doing medical research into a medical condition her friend’s son has.
This chart shows the distribution of the past month’s visits to Dennis McDonald’s Web Site, by operating system, as of January 18, 2011:
Using Roku: Week 1
I’ve been using the Roku box for about a week now. At first I just saw it as a replacement for the Xbox 360’s streaming of Netflix. But there’s a lot more programming available via the Roku that I’m still exploring.
Robo-Tweets and the Internet of Things: A Survey
I always thought when seeing the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind that the musical conversation between the alien Mothership and the humans was cut short when the aliens realized they were no longer playing with a human but with a computer program.