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White House launches Data.gov

Federal CIO Vivek Kundra has launched Data.gov, serving up federal datasets in standard formats like XML, CSV and geo-formats KML/KMZ and ESRI. Discussing the site in the Times, Saul Hansell notes: The value of this, of course, is that when information is made...

Tags: White House, Data, Sunlight Foundation, XML, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-05-25

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Fat Spaniel can't control the weather but now its solar monitor system can keep better track of it

I'll explain the name in a moment, but the real point of this post is to make you aware of an interesting relationship between Fat Spaniel, which provides technologies for monitoring and managing renewable systems, and Meteotest, which provides meteorological information. The jist of the relationship is that of the...

Tags: Monitor, Relationship, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-05-27

White House launches Data.gov

White House launches Data.govWho is Sunlight Foundation?Please develop full applications using our libraries for a chance to win $10,000 for what is likely to be a few developer-years of effort. Oh wow, what a deal.

Tags: Data.gov, White House

Discussion threads 2009-05-26

OLPC to laptop makers: Use our design

OLPC to laptop makers: Use our designRE: Hey Open Source come back -- Use our design"Bill Gates told CNET News that the "OLPC hasn't done that well" ..."Hence no ROI."... --the group said that it would be working with Microsoft to make a Windows variety of its XO laptop, ..."Anticipation...

Tags: laptop computer, Third World, One Laptop Per Child project, third world country

Discussion threads 2009-02-09

Who Runs Government?

Following on from my post yesterday about the incoming Obama administration's challenges in maintaining momentum in the face of legal restraints and obligations, here's an intriguing big media use of collaborative publishing. To some extent the transparency announced by the new administration will...

Tags: Site, Washington Post Co., MindTouch, Government, Vertical Industries, Wiki, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications, Human Resources, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-01-22

Attention Craig Newmark: Citizens aren't customers

Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, has offered a thoughtful but misguided palliative at CNN to the shortcomings of the age of networked democracy. ... if you know how Americans use the Net to talk, you can easily stay in touch with real people. ...

Tags: Politics, Democracy, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-08-27

Followup from Intel on the OLPC debacle

Followup from Intel on the OLPC debacleHow can anyone support Classmate?The Classmate reference design is such a worthless piece of kit, Intel obvioulsy rushed it out the door 6 months after the first prototypes of the OLPC were released over a year and a half ago. Since then the Classmate...

Tags: Intel Corp., One Laptop Per Child project, Classmate, Nicholas Negroponte

Discussion threads 2008-01-07

New GPL draft has olive branches, thorns

New GPL draft has olive branches, thornsThe old school of *nix continues to hamper Linux's adoptionWhen will the ball-and-chain that is the GPL finally disappear and die? When will the community see the FSF for what it really is - a bunch of 1960's throwbacks who believe that making any...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, PRETTY MUCH, GPL, Linux, New GPL draft, Microsoft Corp., olive branch

Discussion threads 2007-03-29

Should Education IT care about OLPC?

Should Education IT care about OLPC?So what's newA NBM dumps on the OLPC project and declares it a lame device. Then dreams up a couple of factoids including that it has to sell a 100 million copies to come in at $150 a piece. Glad to see ZDNET picked...

Tags: One Laptop Per Child project

Discussion threads 2007-03-08

Using the Sun for cooling

Researchers at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute RPI have worked during 4 years on a climate control system called the Active Building Envelope ABE system. The ABE includes solar panels, solid-state, thermoelectric heat pumps and a storage device to provide energy on rainy days. And with a grant from the National...

Tags: Active Building Envelope

Blog posts 2006-07-12

Ray in Charge

With my family visiting the in-laws in Charleston, I'm alone here with dog, 3 cats, and 3 (I hope that's the right number) fish. On Friday I got up late and went down to Podshow for the Fubar Friday company get-together. Sitting with Adam Curry in his cubicle, he asked...

Tags: Frank

Blog posts 2006-06-18

Congresspedia spuring a 'citizen's encyclopedia on Congress'

The recently launched Congresspedia aims to harness the collective knowledge of activists and citizen journalists to document the people, organizations and issues shaping the activities of the U.S. Congress. According to Congresspedia, it is:the '‘citizen's encyclopedia on Congress" that anyone can edit. Congresspedia is a collaborative project of the Center...

Tags: Congresspedia

Blog posts 2006-06-10

Robotic planes to track pollution

These days, drones are often associated with military surveillance missions. But autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles AUAVs can also be used for more peaceful tasks, such as tracking pollution in South Asia. With funds from the National Science Foundation NSF, Californian researchers have deployed teams of AUAVs near the Maldives, an...

Tags: AUAV

Blog posts 2006-04-20

Getting settled in my new line of work

Getting settled in my new line of workCongrats NTNTOnly 6 years in IT?What did you do before that?Congrats on the new job.CongratsHow [b]exciting![/b]Best of luck George!DietrichCongratsInteresting to know that you are a performing artist too. I didn't think there were many computer geeks that actually saw the sunlight outside of...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Strategy, End Users, computer, information technology

Discussion threads 2006-03-09

$100 laptops for kids in developing world

Speaking at MIT's Emerging Technologies conference Nicholas Negroponte announced detailed specs for his $100 computer, and said that his nonprofit One Laptop per Child is in negotiations with five developing countries - Brazil, China, Thailand, Egypt and South Africa - to provide the machines. ...

Tags: Nicholas Negroponte, Developing

Blog posts 2005-09-28