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- Google cuts deals to open up state websites
- Thanks to an agreement with Google, Virginias 95 agencies will expose their databases to the search engine, making them widely accessible to the public, The Washington Post reports. Google will announce similar deals with California, Arizona and Utah. "These are difficult databases to access," said Aneesh Chopra, the Virginia...
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- MO puts an end to prisoners use of penpal websites
- The ability to communicate to millions of people over the Internet was not what Missouris Department of Corrections had in mind when the allowed inmates to write letters to people on the outside. But thats just what some inmates are doing, forcing the department to ban offenders from soliciting penpals...
- Blog posts 2007-03-14
- CA website provides hospital data to public
- A new Web site launched today makes hospital care quality data available to all Californians, the Contra Costa Times reports. CalHospitalCompare.org is the culmination of a three-year, $14 million project that sifts through state data, patient charts and consumer surveys from 212 California hospitals, accounting for 70 percent of...
- Blog posts 2007-03-06
- MA website sloppiness excludes blind users
- Blind people of Boston and their advocates are accusing the state government of not doing enough to make online budget information accessible to the visually impaired, reports the Boston Herald. Graphs, charts and other online devices that highlight the governors $26 billion budget plan arent any use to the...
- Blog posts 2007-03-01
- 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...
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-02-12
- TN legislative website improves access to votes
- Voting records of Tennessee legislators are difficult to find online. One has to search through an image file of a print publication, which can be tedious to say the least. That may be changing, though. State House speaker Jimmy Naifeh and newly elected Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey have a plan...
- Blog posts 2007-01-22
- For OK, group promotes sunshine Web to disclose spending
- More transparency in government spending is one of the goals for a conservative lobbying organization that promotes a "sunshine Web" - a website that discloses all government spending - reports the Associated Press. The Oklahoma chapter of Americans for Prosperity, a national group that promotes limited government, announced...
- Blog posts 2007-01-18
- Arnold leads the nation with high-tech website
- Arnold Schwarzenegger worked with plenty of technology in movies like "The Terminator." Now, as governor of California, hes working with plenty of high-tech again. Gov. Schwarzeneggers website is far and away the most technologically advanced government site in the country - exceeding even the White House, The San...
- Blog posts 2007-01-15
- UK cuts over 500 websites in effort to streamline
- In an effort to streamline access to government, Tony Blairs government is shutting down hundreds of websites, streamlining the UK governments online operations into a handful of portals and major sites, reports the BBC. The shutdown of hundreds of government websites is part of a plan to make...
- Blog posts 2007-01-10
- MA citizens use website to give new guv ideas - lots of them
- What do the people of Massachusetts want? Thats what incoming governor Deval Patrick wanted to know, so he set up a series of 15 policy working groups to listen to the people. Now the ideas are in and Patrick and his lieutenant governor Timothy Murray have some reading to do....
- Blog posts 2006-12-27
- 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...
- Blog posts 2006-11-07
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- ZDNet Government version of Throw out the Trash Day
- More trash pleaseNice idea ... may I submit a similar one for the editor's consideration? Can we have 'trash of the week' by a ZDNET blogger. Serious ... with a touch of humour. Example follows.In Jason Perlow's 'The Vista is Dead' spoof mwagner@zdnet.com was moved to comment."Sounds like you didn't...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-30
- 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. ...
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
- Open source does not work well for bad guys
- Open_Source is the futureOpen_Source 'Linux distro' driven appliances are the future, such as the many companies already doing extremely well.Closed source is a huge lethargic insecure monopoly trying to license/patent everything, however it is failing miserably. Look at the exploits of Windows, $9 Billion in damages last year just from...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-21
- Harvard study leads liberal pushback
- And passing this would be the "first shot" of the next civil war..Passing rubbish like this is whats going to ultimately make this country fall. The federal government, under the 10th Ammendment, has no business telling their citizens that they [b]must[/b] have health insurance. That is a state right and...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-18
- Could Internet filtering cause more harm than good?
- A rational blog from ZackA welcome surprise, but perhaps for once, in your area of expertise ;-)You've made some good points. Pedophilia is nothing new and before the Internet pictures, magazines, videos and films were used instead. Just as criminal, just as prosecuted, as are a number of...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-16
- Does good Betsy McCaughey exist?
- all very interesting, but...Is ZDnet now a health-oriented web site? Should we start looking forward to more political articles?A Ph.D. is a doctorate[i]"When McCaughey uses the title ?Dr.,? it?s based on her Ph.D from Columbia. ... to refer to her as ?Dr. McCaughey,? is to endorse a deception."[/i]Sorry, Dana, but...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-08
- U.N.'s Ban Ki-moon warns of 'abyss" and 'widespread disaster'
- Those are some of the words from the U.N. Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, speaking in Geneva this morning. He was at a World Climate Conference, having just paid a personal visit to to the Arctic where melt is happenin'. Ban says the Arctuic is warming faster than anywhere else...
- Blog posts 2009-09-03
- Government Department Develops First-Rate Web Site Against Strict Deadline
- The Queensland Government's Department of Public Works the department delivers a wide range of services to the state government and its agencies, including communication technology. In late 2008, the Government asked the department to develop an online register of war memorials in time for the following Anzac Day commemorations. This...
- Case studies 2009-09-01
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