Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web Innovation in customer experience It is often the process of taking away that truly gets to the essence of simplicity. The new innovation is about taking away and stripping down. It is not about focusing on the lifecycle of the product, but rather focusing on the [...]
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web Schneier on Security: Data at Rest vs. Data in Motion In a way, encryption doesn’t reduce the number of secrets that must be stored securely; it just makes them much smaller. “Send us your comments” says new Transparency Board Public data policy and practice will be [...]
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web Innovation: Who Else Is Doing It? Everyone applauds innovation. At least, they love it in retrospect, after it has worked. Before that, it’s just somebody’s wild idea that competes with every other wild idea for resources and support. What sounds great in the abstract seems risky [...]
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web Pareto Problems for Digital Innovation? : Tim’s Blog Is the promise of more efficient and cheaper digital services simply the result of a slight-of-hand – measuring the costs of a service based on it’s provision in the easy cases and bracketing out the tough cases which [...]
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web In the loop: How Twitter transformed political reporting – Features, Gadgets & Tech – The Independent The secret of Twitter’s success is that it sounds stupid. No one has to take it seriously, which means anyone can use it for anything they want. And, because the [...]
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web The big society – meeting at Downing Street For me, as an old Whitehall hand (my day job before talk about local) this was the first time the coalition thing has really sunk in. It was remarkable to see two leaders of different political parties sit [...]
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web Gov 2.0 in Australia This showcase has been set up to collate and create a gallery of Australian Government innovation in the Gov 2.0 space, from which others can learn. Once a few submissions have been received and verified, we will publish a gallery of case [...]
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web Will Plug-In Vehicles Be Obsolete Before They Are Profitable? — Seeking Alpha Given the change I’ve lived through, I have a hard time putting much faith in anyone who believes 10 to 25 year forecasts are possible, much less reliable. There is simply no way to [...]
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web Government on the web: the next revolution Seventeen years ago this month, I set up the first British government website. I was a young economist at the UK Treasury, and I thought the budget documents should be available online. I proposed this to the Treasury Management [...]
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web Marginal Revolution: One Game Machine Per Child Beginning at the top left we see that households with incomes just below the cutoff were much more likely to have a computer than households with incomes just above the cutoff – thus the voucher program has a big [...]