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- Blog
- (1) To write a blog entry. Blogs (definition #2 below) became so popular that the noun was turned into a verb; for example, "I'll blog about that subject next...
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- British politician is busy Twittering on the campaign trail
- Fairfax County, Va., pols may just getting used to the idea of blogs, but in the UK national politicians are getting hip to every technoweenie's fave activity, Twitter, generically described as microblogging. The Guardian says that Labour Party deputy leadership contender Alan Johnson is actively twittering away, posting 50-odd...
- Tags: Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-18
- Army backtracks somewhat on blogging restrictions
- Last week, we wrote that the Army had issued new, restrictive rules around so-called milblogging, rules that forbid blog or photo posting without prior approval from a commander. And the rules applied to family members and private contractors, as well as active personnel. Now it looks like the Army...
- Tags: Government technology, Defense
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- The death of milblogs
- For soldiers, the Armys hands-off attitude towards blogging must have been like that period in the 1960s before LSD was criminalized was for hippies. Jerry Garcia once said of that period, "They didnt know and it wasnt illegal and it was like, that was a really good year." All good...
- Tags: Government technology, Defense
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- Political mashups turn financial data into the stuff blogs are made of
- Citizen activists are using mashups to shed new light on politics, lobbying and campaign financing, Wired reports. For instance Maplight.org generated a report on donations to campaigns for and against a California bill to ban clear-cutting in old growth forests. Besides Maplight.org, other sites that expose financial...
- Tags: Elections, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- Another politician comes out against child predators
- Its somewhat ironic that Illinois state Sen. Matt Murphy is using an online chat to promote his bill to ban MySpace, Facebook and personal blogs from computers in public libraries and schools, the IL Daily Herald reports. Murphy is hosting an online chat tomorrow at 5:30 CST on his...
- Tags: Congress, Government technology, State &, Local Govt
- Blog posts 2007-02-21
- TechPresident.com tracks the websites
- With John Edwards, Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama offering various levels of citizen interaction on their websites and campaigns, its only natural that a blog has sprung up to cover the emergence of Politics 2.0 sites. TechPresident.com is a blog dedicated to tracking the technical, social networking and various Web...
- Tags: blog, Elections, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-02-12
- In GA, pundits' blogs get more buzz than politicians'
- Morris News Service takes a look at some political blogs in Georgia, noting that politicians are disappointed their efforts dont exactly burn up the blogosphere. One local politician, Doug McKillip, a Democrat from Athens, Ga., starting blogging to try to reach younger voters. Mr. McKillips blog is hardly...
- Tags: Government technology, Elections, Web, blog
- Blog posts 2007-01-19
- Blogs, online video has big impact on MO elections
- The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that many of Missouris biggest stories were broke by blogs and websites, not the states newspapers. Newspapers statewide were scooped by a Democratic-leaning website, firedupmissouri.com, which first disclosed the details of Gov. Matt Blunts proposal to sell off the assets of the Missouri...
- Tags: Elections, Government technology, State &, Local Govt, Claire McCaskill, blog
- Blog posts 2006-12-29
- Are wikis and blogs the future of spying?
- In a fascinating piece in Sundays Times, Clive Thompson reveals that, confronted with the intractable problem of getting 16 intelligence agencies communicating and interoperating, the CIA set up a competition, the Galileo Awards, for the best ideas on how to combat the problem. The winning essay was written by Calvin...
- Tags: Intelligence, Government technology
- Blog posts 2006-12-04
- The digital election: Even networks emphasize the Net
- Yet another way that the Net has changed the election of 2006. Increasingly, Election Night reporting will happen on the Web, The New York Times reports. And to some degree, bloggers, not what the networks say, is the story. This is because, after two elections of suspicious exit...
- Tags: Blogging, Web site development, network, blogger, blog
- Blog posts 2006-11-07
- Debating the political potential of the Net
- 2006 may mark the end of the Republican era in Congress but it may ultimately be more important for another change in politics - the Netification of politics. One old canard of the Internet is that is lowers barriers to entry, so that a guy in his PJs can become...
- Tags: Government technology, Elections, Net, Internet
- Blog posts 2006-11-06
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- Microsoft Patents Sudo - So Sudo me!
- i do think that it time for some rule and regulation .and some major MS legal bashing . anti-trust Adrian this is shameless self promotionYou would not even have this if a reader had not given it to you. Means nothing but what youre getting out of it, HITS....
- Tags: Idiocy, patent, Microsoft Corp., Adrian
- Discussion threads 2009-11-12
- Why not pay for what works?
- Lawsuits not a costly issueThat's a typical republican, politcal response. Studies have been done to show that's it's a very small percentage of overall costs in healthcare. Not that tort reform wouldn't help, it's just a small issue in the big picture.Most unnecessarly procedures are generally performed...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, Betsy McCaughey
- Discussion threads 2009-11-11
- GOP will present a health care bill
- Good startGood work Dana. This blog is not biased to the left (we'll see how you fare in the talkbacks though).There's of course still the question why you put politics on this IT tech site."ZDNet: Tech News, Blogs and White Papers for IT Professionals. Where Technology Means Business: ZDNet delivers...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, IT Pros, health care, No., Pelosi, GOP
- Discussion threads 2009-11-03
- Why is Microsoft opening up its Outlook file format now?
- Customer says: nopen/tPartner: Can't hurtIf I had to list out things I'd like to see from Microsoft, this would not be on the top of the list, but it's a great move I think.People looking to move away from other mail systems could see more tools available that make the...
- Tags: E-mail, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Outlook
- Discussion threads 2009-10-27
- Open source scores small victory at White House
- Open source scored a victory at the White House this week with the government's choice to switch to Drupal for whitehouse.gov. The U.S. government's technology team announced that it had selected the open source content management system to make http://www.whitehouse.gov more transparent to consumers and developers. ...
- Tags: White House, Government, Open Source, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
- Updegrove: Obama should give FOSS equal treatment
- ConsortiumInfo.org's Andy Updegrove urged President Obama to show more public support for free and open source software. In a blog featured on the site today, Updegrove said open source has made huge inroads in various government sectors, especially the Department of Defense, Â but it's high time that...
- Tags: Procurement, F/OSS, ConsortiumInfo.org, Open Source, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- BlackBerry the choice of organized crime
- You mean police have to workand do things themselves instead of casting a massive net over everyone? What a shame...well its good for RIM ....As for gang member there is one thing i never understood .Why does the a real clean up have been never made ....you set...
- Tags: Handhelds, organized crime, RIM BlackBerry, RCMP
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- The really inconvenient truth: real price of our energy
- A different take"Economics and business have a notoriously short-sighted, narrow-minded set of considerations. Haven?t we just re-learned that ancient lesson from the hedge funder corruption and the phoney mortgage miasma?"What lesson did you learn? Did these markets fail or did government intervention in market operations corrupted them? Why are tax...
- Tags: Inconvenient Truth
- Discussion threads 2009-10-17
- McCarran-Ferguson and a cross-state health market
- Las Vegas?"But if you?re going to let New Yorkers buy from Vermont why not let them buy from Las Vegas?"Uh, because Las Vegas is NOT A STATE.We are the united states of america and not the united cities of america.I could have written Nevada, trueBut Las Vegas is funnier and...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Vertical industries, Corporate governance, Insurance, Delaware, health care, health insurance
- Discussion threads 2009-10-16
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