Rewired State has taken another step towards becoming the next generation systems integrator for government. In a piece of delightful recursion, a Rewired State project becomes the vehicle for accessing the formal status of Rewired State – or as it has been since last Monday, Rewired State Ltd.
In other news, the Rewired State gang has [...]
More on powerpoint… the more, in number and in detail, your bullets, the less I believe you know your stuff!
Valdis Krebs
Last week, this blog hit five years and 400 posts, just as it became apparent that blogs are history.
As this momentous milestone approached, there was a flurry of coverage of the latest Pew Internet Project report, on social media and young adults, picking up on the decline of interest in blogging – at least among [...]
There are very serious reasons behind many of the projects I’m working on at the moment, but this gravity doesn’t preclude the use of a little panache or showmanship to add to the effectiveness of the end product. Indeed, in many cases it’s the lack of style that’s been the problem in [...]
It appears to be a permanent part of the human condition that long term deadlines without short term milestones are rarely met.
Joel Spolsky, in an essay on student computer science projects, which has much wider interest and implications.
The more you think things through first from someone else’s perspective, the simpler the solution you [...]
There are two things I understand about cloud computing.
The first is that it works as an insurance policy. My house might burn down, my computers all get stolen, my hard disks fail simultaneously, and still I will not have lost any of the data I care most about because quietly every night Jungle Disk looks [...]
If the past is a foreign country, how much more so the future. There have been endless articles – to say nothing of entire books – about the digital generation, but few of them in my experience really bring the differences to life. I was struck by a piece danah boyd has just written which [...]
I have been using Feed Demon as my primary feed reader at home for quite a while now. It’s flexible, doesn’t force an approach to organising and reading feeds, but is immensely powerful in it ability to organise them in whatever way works for you. And as it has been essentially hand knitted by Nick [...]
Great to have been one of the “govvy people” allowed in to see the show – it was deeply thought provoking at a number of different levels. I can’t afford to be as cheerfully dismissive of the government (which anyway simply does not exist as a singular noun) as many of the creative minds at the event, those of us who are in government certainly do need to respond to the challenge.
Ed Felten spells out the difference between outreach and transparency:
Outreach means government telling us what it wants us to hear; transparency means giving us the information that we, the citizens, want to get. An ideal government provides both outreach and transparency. Outreach lets officials share their knowledge about what is happening, and it lets them [...]