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At the root of the productivity problem in America are three mistaken beliefs: 1."Busy-ness" and "productivity" are positively correlated. 2. Misery and productivity are positively correlated. 3. Being unhappy, uncomfortable, displeased, or angry is always bad for you. A lot of stuff got done when we all believed the first two and... [read more]
Louisiana has lost an $80 million rural broadband grant for failing to keep their broadband expansion project on track. The Commerce Department rescinded the grant stating that the project administrators were repeatedly unresponsive to requests for information and updates on where the project stood. Senator Mary Landrieu has said that... [read more]
Tuesday lunchtime there was a debate on the Radio 4 programme "You and Yours" on "Do Strikes Work?" UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis was a guest with Ed Holmes, from the hard right Tory think tank "Policy Exchange". I rang into the programme and was able to say (about 9 minutes in) that strikes can work if they are a last... [read more]
I'm pleased to hear David Cameron speak out about the way that our state-funded broadcaster reported the riots. A couple of weeks ago, in an article for the Mail on Sunday I made much the same point. With the BBC in mind, I noted how “Many of those who two weeks ago were telling us that the looters were... [read more]
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The whole time I was watching the riots after the game in Vancouver from my Regina hotel room, I couldn’t help but think of how easy it will be for Seth Myers on SNL to do his “Really?” skit after this sad scene. I hate to slam against youth, being a Gen Y’er myself, however the display on Wednesday night helped solidify what I often... [read more]
Indivo is an open-source Personal Health Record (PHR) system. Last month, Andy Oram interviewed Daniel Haas of Children's Hospital about this project, which Haas will present at OSCON. Photo by Kurhan. [read more]
As the role of the Internet as a platform for collective actions grows, access to the rest of wired humanity becomes more important. Today, United Nations special rapporteur Frank La Rue released a report on freedom of expression and the Internet that described cutting off Internet access as a breach of human rights. The report, which... [read more]
Welcome to the the next installment in my series of social media tips. These are aimed primarily at a police audience, but hopefully applicable to a wider group of people too, especially those in the public sector. This series of posts will aim to identify some good practice and useful hints and tips for police officers and staff to... [read more]
What would society be like if there weren’t any prisons? Peaceful arcadia or hell on earth? I ask because getting rid of prisons seems to me to be where we are headed if the leftist elite who appear to preside over our criminal justice system get their way. First came the fashion for non-custodial sentencing.... [read more]
In the wake of President Obama issuing guidance to federal departments last month on the wrong and right ways to write government documents, it is helpful to remember that President Truman ordered the Federal Register be written in “layman’s terms” over 40 years ago and President Clinton wrote a memo 13 years ago entitled, “Plain... [read more]
I do not believe that Plaid Cymru Assembly Members are as naive as their Westminster colleague who represents Carmarthen East, who told the Western Mail today that Plaid would be putting forward proposals for the Assembly to be elected by STV. A Conservative Party which led the campaign against electoral reform in May's referendum... [read more]
The most common investigative request I receive is for information about Facebook. With over 500 million active users, it seems that everyone now has an account. Let’s look at the options. If you have a name, searching Facebook is quite easy. Unfortunately, you must be logged in to a Facebook account to search and view profiles. Creating... [read more]
This morning, the Oversight Committee in the United States House of Representatives held a hearing on the Obama administration’s open government efforts. The “Transparency Through Technology: Evaluating Federal Open-Government Initiatives hearing was streamed live online at oversight.house.gov. House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa... [read more]
Despite please from the Governor’s office, New Hampshire’s House of Representatives voted to end the state’s involvement in a regional cap-and-trade program 246 – 104. Proponents of the bill said original involvement in the carbon trading program was based on unproven scientific assumptions about global warming. Meanwhile those voting... [read more]
Alaska Governor Sean Parnell has announced that the state will not apply for federal grants to implement health insurance exchanges in the wake of a judge’s ruling that the health care reform act is unconstitutional. With this move, Parnell joins a growing number of Governor’s who are turning down federal grants for a variety of... [read more]
Dean Halstead is a Lead Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton and serves on the Advisory Board for the SmartBrief on Social Media. More »
John Kamensky is a Senior Fellow with the IBM Center for The Business of Government. More »
Steve Radick is a Lead Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton and serves on the Advisory Board for the SmartBrief on Social Media. More »
I understand that there's always a need to experiment for new design to make it better but they also keep in mind that the more they add details, the more they make it complicated. The CFPB, which opened up for business last summer, said Wednesday that it will next be going after loan providers ...
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Talking about transparency and actually doing it are two different things. It ...