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7
Revolutions and Social Networks
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My colleague Scott McClure pointed me to this article a couple months ago by Malcom Gladwell about the limitations of social networks in facilitating political revolution. It seems freshly relevant again this past week or two with events in Tunisia and Egypt. I think his point is tangentially reinforced by the fact that apparently when [...]
Jan
27
What they know about us..
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A sort of cool self-diagnostic on what information third party ad networks are able to determine about you and your browsing habits, althoughthis is just the public facing view. The real info iswhat they mine inside their data warehouses. http://whattheyknow.cs.wpi.edu
Mar
5
Kundra is New Fed CIO
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Vivek Kundra has been named to the position of Federal CIO. As previously noted, I am a big fan of Kundra, based upon his perfomance as CTO of the District of Columbia. This is a more or less newly created position, not the CTO position that President Obama has promised to create. The job will [...]
Dec
9
I got the mayor’s monthly email newsletter and there was an interesting note about the Office of the CTO’s Apps for Democracy project. The city sponsored this contest in which developers utilized the city’s Data Catalog to create mash-ups that would be useful to the residents of the city. There’s some cool stuff here (and [...]
Dec
2
Preface
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I am not going to lay out any manifesto here – my goal for my first blog will be simple. I am taking the advice of my boss, Yuvi Kochar, and using this basically as an open notebook or journal of what’s of interest to me. If others find it interesting, so much the better. [...]