I've been doing some writing on my programming blog, been really enjoying having it. Also, the comments on this blog are now fixed. I broke them awhile ago because I kept getting spam comments. But now fixed again, and getting spam again.
11:43am | blogs | no comments
If unconferences are of any interest to you, you'll probably find this post by David Berlind very interesting: Old-school conferences R.I.P.
This post expains how a recent unconference was done and how it went.
I think regular conferences are good and I enjoy them. This unconference thing though seems rather fun and exciting to me as well.
I did a little news item about this unconference that this post talks about because ChicagoCrime.org won second place for best mashup.
10:32am | government resources - technology governance - egovernment - open government - public relations | no comments
I like this definition of social software from Wikipedia:
Social software lets people rendezvous, connect or collaborate by use of a computer network. The term came into more common usage in 2002, largely credited to Clay Shirky who organized a "Social Software Summit" in November of that year. Shirky defines social software as "stuff that gets spammed."
5:04pm | web technology - egovernment - blogs | no comments
Washingtonpost.com and CJRDaily both added "Bookmark with del.icio.us" buttons on their article templates today. At the bottom of every article is a link that spawns a popup for users to save this article with del.icio.us and to add tags to help them find this article later.
PR Newswire also plans to put del.cio.us on its pages.
3:43pm | web technology - blogs | no comments
Has anybody seen David Fletcher on the web recently? He hasn't blogged on his blog for awhile but I know he sometimes starts other blogs other places. His del.icio.us account also hasn't been active since January 13, which is kind of odd.
I check his blog about 5 days a week. It occurred to me that I'd probably keep checking his blog for about 6 months before I gave up.
11:49am | web technology - egovernment - blogs | no comments
Ramon Padilla wrote an interesting piece called Open source=political suicide?
4:56pm | government resources - egovernment - enterprise architecture | no comments
Comments from Christopher Fowler's blog:
Eric: If anyone actually read the Patriot act? The first line states, “Suspected” …has anyone even interested in this act ever been a suspected terrorist? Probably not..hence the act will never apply to you, personally, when they actaully root out terror, and the likes due to the act, all the people who opposed this act will be thanking it? Just my thoughts.
Christopher: If you inherently trust the government (I’m not judging that position) then there is nothing wrong with the Patriot Act, nor would there be any reason not to support domestic spying. If you feel that only those who are truely suspect are the only ones who will be monitored then I can understand your point of view.
If you feel that past actions by the government (i.e. McCarthyism, Watergate, etc) is proof that high level officials need oversight and can not be inherently trusted then you will see the Patriot Act and perceived violations by this administration as something to worry about regardless of ones likelihood of being a terrorist.
When Property Goes, So Does Privacy:
One essential feature of totalitarianism is a government's ability to punish citizens, not only for what they do or say publicly, but also for what they think and value in the privacy of their own minds. As one privacy advocate has said, a record of one's Internet searches is "a kind of shadow of the thoughts within your head your interests, your desires, your hobbies, your fears." If our government thus begins to have access to the content of our minds whenever it decides that this might serve the public interest, nothing can follow but a future of thought control.
Coach Ken Carter keynoted GTC South West. Wayne Hanson wrote a great article about it.
It starts off:
Ordinarily, people hope a keynote speaker will have something important to say, waiting for a magic moment that will change their lives, or at least brighten up the overcast day outside. At GTC in Austin this morning, they were not disappointed.
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