micro-consituencies support global information sharing
Creating a new, common language for machine-readable information allows information to be shared across organizations with disparate information systems and information formats. The Global Justice XML Data Model is a successful example of such a language. Its success prompted the development of a similar, but broader initiative called the National Information Exchange Model. Both models [...]
Tagged: data
COB-51: a bureaucrat's grave
Death happens. No one wants to die. Bureaucrats do not welcome death. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier honors all soldiers. There is no Tomb of the Unknown Bureaucrat. Many bureaucrats are unknown. Those moving, ponderous words crawled through my head as I visited a colleague’s grave in the courtyard corner of the old office [...]
government television
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has a television channel. The U.S. Federal Courts have a television channel. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has a television channel. Soon these and other government programming will be available through the portal video.gov. That portal hopes to attract millions of views. Disintermediation isn’t just for business. We’re entering a [...]
Tagged: content
brain-power economics critical to cybersecurity
The Internet allows humans anywhere around the globe to acquire the best available technical education and to use that education to pursue a wide variety of objectives on digital networks. One objective can be to build a great repository of human knowledge. Another objective can be to attack an organization and do great harm. [...]
Tagged: law
a Shakespearean portrait after the Internet Reformation
The Internet allows a huge amount of information to be made freely available globally at little cost. Because analyzing information requires time and skill, most persons won’t do it. But the provision of information nonetheless signals credibility. If an authority doesn’t provide publicly, by Internet standards, a reasonable amount of relevant information, then that [...]
Tagged: Shakespeare
relatively slow reduction in bandwidth prices
Quality-adjusted average U.S. residential broadband service prices have fallen no more than an estimated 10% from 2004 to 2009.[1] The consumer price index for personal computers and peripheral equipment fell 50% across that period.[2] The price-performance frontier for communications technology is advancing as fast or faster than that for personal computers and peripherals. [...]
Tagged: telcos
print disintermediation
While independent newspapers and magazines are in deep distress, business-sponsored print publications seem to be flourishing. Costco Connection, for example, is a monthly lifestyle magazine for Costco members. The Sept. 2010 issue offers 72 pages chock-full of advertisements. Its masthead shows a large, traditional print organization (managing editor, associate editors, assistant editors, copy editor, production [...]
Tagged: magazines