Category Archives: General

Open Government, real examples, not technology examples

Posted on February 12, 2009 by oliver

Since President Obama’s January inauguration there has been a lot of talk about what he has been calling Open Government, a plan to return to a US government that is representative and belongs to “we the people” as the US … Continue reading →

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For those tackling Conficker

Posted on February 9, 2009 by oliver

Brett Roberts just pointed me to a couple of resources that are now live on http://microsoft.com, one page for home users and another for anybody dealing with this worm in a network environment.

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Semblio, create your own digital learning content

Posted on February 4, 2009 by oliver

The Semblio SDK was made available today, a toolkit for developers building digital learning content. ReadWriteWeb has a full write up on the announcement; Microsoft’s Semblio, which was formerly known as ‘Grava,’ is a software platform geared towards developing educational … Continue reading →

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Now on Twitter

Posted on February 1, 2009 by oliver

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been playing with Twitter, which I think makes me some sort of technology laggard. At this point I’m not 100% sure what I’ll use it for, but I’ll work it out over the … Continue reading →

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It is amazing…

Posted on January 31, 2009 by oliver

… how many people seem to be searching the web for “receipts for muffins”. I was just looking through the last couple of months logs trying to work out which posts folks found interesting. I really didn’t expect to find … Continue reading →

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Where’s Santa?

Posted on December 19, 2008 by oliver

The North American Aerospace Defense Command’s annual Santa tracking web site is now available. Here’s a video showing some of the locations they tracked him passing through last year. You can follow his progress on Christmas Eve at NoradSanta.org. According to their … Continue reading →

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Imagine a world with no junk email

Posted on November 19, 2008 by oliver

About a week ago the Washington Post’s “Security Fix” blog posted an article claiming that they had been instrumental in taking down a California based hosting provider, Security Fix suggested that McColo Corp was responsible for around 75% of the … Continue reading →

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Do I really need a receipt with my Orange Muffin?

Posted on November 16, 2008 by oliver

It was 6:45am this morning and I was heading through Changi Airport to catch a flight to Sydney, feeling a little hungry I stopped by my favorite coffee stand and bought myself an Orange Muffin. Digging around in my wallet … Continue reading →

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What can James Brown teach us about eGovernment?

Posted on October 31, 2008 by oliver

As it turns out, quite a lot! I’m really pleased to see that my colleague from the UK is now running his own blog. James was one of the architects behind the UK’s Gateway project, one of the first truly … Continue reading →

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Why large systems integrators sometimes fail to deliver government projects

Posted on October 30, 2008 by oliver

In 1957 Joe Bohlen and and George Beal, both at Iowa State Collage, began to look at how technology was adopted in farming communities, how markets are created around new technologies and how that leads to broad adoption of that … Continue reading →

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