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Cloud computing perspectives and questions at the World Economic Forum
July 09 2009
The World Economic Forum started a research project at Davos 2009 concerning cloud computing. I've put up a discussion forum as a wiki. read morePersonal Democracy Forum conference: initial themes
June 29 2009
The first day at the Personal Democracy Forum conference revolved around the freedom to experiment, necessary infrastructure, and the need to change. read moreRethinking ecommerce security: security experts asked to redesign credit card payments
June 26 2009
Ed Bellis, the chief information security officer at Orbitz, is trying to design a secure online system for credit card payments. read morePersonal Democracy Forum ramp-up: adaptive legislation can respond to action in the agora
June 24 2009
If legislatures could rely on public participation during the implementation of the law, they could write laws that embrace such input. read morePersonal Democracy Forum ramp-up: twenty-five hundred years of Government 2.0
June 19 2009
New practices in government transparency are just intensifications of things democracies have done for a long time: public comment periods, expert consultation, archiving deliberations, and so forth. So let's look back a bit at what democracy has brought to government so far. read moreWhat's your objective in learning Objective-C? Is it the medium or the [message]?
June 18 2009
At O'Reilly Media, we're looking for reader reactions to help guide our new books, workshops, conference sessions, etc. Is it a hurdle you have to leap or a start to a whole new programming style? read moreFour roles for publishers: staying relevant when you are no longer a gatekeeper
June 17 2009
In many areas of publishing, there are enormous resources of free online material and innumerable forums where individuals can quickly and conveniently post their own observations. Since we are no longer gatekeepers, publishers have to focus on how we add quality. read morePersonal Democracy Forum ramp-up: from vulnerability and overload to rage, mistrust, and fear
June 16 2009
The grand vision for government/public collaboration is a set of feedback loops that intensify the influence of the collective will on government policy. But will the White House have the time and resources to establish a foothold for a solid and lasting open government program? read moreBig fish, little fish: the benefits of cycling between start-ups and established companies
June 05 2009
Tacit understandings among companies to refrain from snatching away each other's staff are illegal anti-competitive behavior. But going back and forth between large and small companies is key to cross-pollination. read moreFCC discusses broadband: the job is a big one
May 27 2009
Related to a proposal I submitted for local forums to implement high-speed networks, the FCC released "Bringing Broadband to Rural America: Report on a Rural Broadband Strategy." read moreLocal forums to implement high-speed networks (broadband); proposal open for votes
May 24 2009
I've posted a proposal titled Local forums to implement high-speed networks (broadband) to a forum on open government put up by the White House. Voting is currently underway. read moreMySQL faster, better, and still unified: notes about Sun, Monty Widenius, Percona, and Drizzle
May 22 2009
It might have seemed last week, with the announcement of the Open Database Alliance, that MySQL is forking. The ODA promises a "central clearinghouse for MySQL development" and claims to improve on areas where criticism has historically been aimed at MySQL AB/Sun: bug-fixing, performance, and community responsiveness. But what's going on behind the scenes is much… read moreCompleting the circle on journalists and public participation
May 20 2009
Capital News Connection has jumped into Web 2.0 full-tilt with Ask Your Lawmaker. The opportunity for a virtuous cycle of public input, professional processing, and listener loyalty--especially in a field whose death has been predicted by many--puts Ask Your Lawmaker into an intriguing category of its own. read moreThe limits of standards in OOXML and ODF office suites
May 20 2009
Nobody expected Microsoft to make its proprietary OOXML format really work with products that support ODF. But an office suite has to hook into a huge number of outside pieces in its environment. We're just going to have to live with a fuzz factor. read moreCredit card company data mining makes us all instances of a type
May 14 2009
The New York Times has recently published one of their in-depth, riveting descriptions of how credit card companies use everything they can learn about us. Almost eleven years \ I wrote an article criticizing this trend. read moreRecent Posts | All Posts
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