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When (and why) social media fails...

When and why social media fails...Technology exists, organisation, focus and will power requiredMuch of the technology for facilities to empower "local journalism" already exists, what is needed are people who are ogranised enough to collect the technology together and present them under a unified front. Taking these excellent points in...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, radio, media, local government, government, social media, tool

Discussion threads 2006-12-21

Hot trends in state and local contracting

Top IT projects among state and local governments in the coming year, according to WashingtonTechnology:Medicaid: There is a "backlog of states that need new Medicaid systems or are hiring a company to run their systems. But Rishi Sood, Gartner research vice president, said the need...

Tags: Medicaid, human service, local government

Blog posts 2006-03-27

Revealed: Muni WiFi's enemy #1 is SBC-AT&T's #1 campaign contribution recipient

In her article entitled Senators can't agree on municipal broadband rules, my colleague Anne Broache "broaches" the subject of municipal broadband hearings in the U.S. Senate.She correctly describes the resistance of big broadband service providers to the idea, and the sentiment expressed by Sen. John Ensign (R-Nevada) for their position."I...

Tags: Sessions, government, John Ensign

Blog posts 2006-02-15

Congress turns up the pressure on city wireless

The latest attack on municipal broadband networks comes in the form of the Broadband Investment and Community Choice Act, a bill recently introduced in the Senate, which, according to an article on O'Reilly Network, would seriously limit local governments' ability to create and deploy public networks. Richard Koman writes:...

Tags: network, government

Blog posts 2005-08-09

Harold Feld has read the Ensign bill and he doesn't like what he sees

Here's Harold Feld's take on Sen. Ensign's Broadband Investment and Consumer Choice Act. While there are a few positives, the list of negatives is very long. They all boil down to this: "What the act generally does is strip the states and local governments of any regulatory power over telecom...

Tags: Harold Feld, network

Blog posts 2005-07-29

Rewrite of Telecom Act introduced, addresses muni Wi-Fi

Esme Vos of MuniWireless.com has perspective on the Broadband Investment and Consumer Choice Act of 2005, essentially a rewrite of the current law, the Telecommunications Act of 1996, introduced on July 27 by Sen. John Ensigh (R-Nevada). The bill directly deals with local governments' ability to deploy municipal wireless. Here...

Tags: Here is Esme, government, local government

Blog posts 2005-07-29

City's fiber project goes to a vote

City's fiber project goes to a votelocal rightsif the citizens of a community want to take the risk of creating a network, then why shouldn't they be given the opportunity. The federal government needs to "step away from the car". As long as access is not limited by local governments...

Tags: Vertical industries, Network technology, Nothing, network, government, fiber, Lafayette, local government, taxpayer, voter

Discussion threads 2005-07-16

Quest for 'Utopia' hits a roadblock

Quest for 'Utopia' hits a roadblockmake senseSo now we find firther proof our government is actively engaged in negating technological advancement in favour of established and inefficient, legacy communication. Perhaps this fact stems from the inability to monitor effectively the communications that would take place in the advanced systems....

Tags: Vertical industries, government, local government, UTOPIA

Discussion threads 2004-04-19

Additional Resources

Research paints ugly IT employment picture: Almost 2 million jobs gone in 14 years

Depressing...So much innovation happened in America in the 90's. Alot of what we have now was accomplished by American engineers, and now we are not being included anymore because of what? Arbitrage. Sad, Sad, Sad....Of courseBecause all these CEOs and wannabe businesspeople think quality doesn't matter so...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, information technology, comeback, profit margin, job, worker

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

ChromeOS says tear down this network regulation wall

Costs"What is holding back network capacity is politics."What's holding back network capacity is huge costs.Yep, very important to push the ISPs to free up the bits. They would love to continue selling bandwidth through an eyedropper at very high prices. They need a push.Oh, and Microsoft will not like this...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Network technology, ChromeOS, netbook, fiber

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

More evidence of the coming collision between home broadband and the smart grid

Collision?Not the word I would have used.In any event, I think this is a positive and necessary direction to go. In order to manage more diversified, less dependable/consistent sources of energy, the demand side HAS TO be managed. Without it, we are just setting ourselves up for a lot of...

Tags: TELECOMMUNICATIONS, collision, home broadband, grid, smart grid

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

Google hit again with Street View privacy concerns - in Switzerland

It is NOT up to Google to insure your privacy in public places. These are places it is perfectly legal to be in and take pictures of, then publish the pictures. Just because the pictures are taken automatically, does not suddenly make them illegal. If you want to restrict the...

Tags: U.S. Military, Google Inc., photograph

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

Paperless students? Never going to happen

Got an idea...If someone wants to do without paper, toilet-paper,a car/truck, air conditioning, and never passgas. Than more power to them, on the other handstop forcing these lunatic policies on employers,small business and the rest of society.In the meantime, people have to work, to earn moneyto eat and raise their...

Tags: Tablets, Microsoft Office, Notebooks, Taxes, Personal finance, Microsoft Office OneNote 2003, tablet

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

Facebook beats the 'spam king'

Good luck collecting that judgment award. ntntRE: Facebook beats the 'spam king'Ive always wondered why governments/courts don't do more on tackling spam. Surely regardless of where they are based, some pressure can be exerted by the government, onto local governments, if they don't comply, limit/block the whole countries internet...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Government, INTERNET, Text messaging/SMS/MMS, e-mail, Facebook, spam king, spam

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

In recession, VoIP makes strong case for cutting your home landline

Tempting, but I will passI've considered VoIP several times over the years, but it usually just takes a few phone calls with a friend or relative who is using VoIP before I change my mind! Not infrequently, the conversation becomes a warbling mess. Then there are times we...

Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VoIP, phone, recession

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

Remember when FrontPage seemed pretty slick?

My school teaches...... web design in the conventional way. Intro classes cover HTML, CSS, using JQuery modules or writing basic js. Advances classes teach PHP and such. None of the classes I know of cover CMS.I had a summer internship where I used Drupal. I didn't do any of the...

Tags: Content management, CSS, Enterprise software, KompoZer, content management system, Microsoft FrontPage, CMS system

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

Government in action: 1.3M mobile plans; Mexico's Internet tax; England's crime map

Loosely linked.. i guess.. but i like the crime mapAs an active member of my HOA, we ask the local police all the time about our areas crime stats compared to surrounding areas.As i am sure everyone is aware, crime rises in a recession and even our local area has...

Tags: mobile, Internet, crime map, Internet Tax

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

Net neutrality: a faster Internet for all

If I pay my ISP for fast speeds, I should get it.If I pay my ISP for fast speeds, I should get it.I do [b]not[/b] want my internet to slow down just because some person on the [b]other[/b] end didn't pay for priority traffic.Net Neutrality had to happen in the...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Internet Service Provider, Net Neutrality, faster Internet, Toll-Free, population density, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

Net Neutrality: Why the Internet will never be free. For anything. So get used to it

Call it Net Neutrality if you want, but it doesn't exist, nor is it required when you already have antitrust, regulatory and other local and state, and international law in place. Choice, innovation and open access are the principles in a free enterprise competitive market, not the halls of government....

Tags: Internet, Net Neutrality, Government, Doug Hanchard

Blog posts 2009-10-22

Microsoft and PC makers introduce Windows 7 offers for consumers

Can't wait to see theseThe local Best Buy is having a midnight launch. I'm probably going to go and geek out for a bit.RE: Microsoft and PC makers introduce Windows 7 offers for consumersWish I could afford the upgrades.Been laid off and on for 6 years now.Could not renew my...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), way thing, Linux, U.S. Department of Defense, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Win7, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-10-21