At the beginning of March Gartner published a brief paper, titled ‘What Does Web 2.0 Mean to Government (no link: subscription required), that included some significant observations about our future operating environment, and it set me thinking about what this will mean for the public sector in big-picture terms.
Before we get to the report itself, [...]
Every once in a while you come across an idea or a product that is so obviously the result of unimaginable hours of hard work and intellectual brilliance completely detached from any semblance of reality. When I read this story in the Sydney Morning Herald, I had to check the dateline a couple of times [...]
Over the last couple of weeks I have had a couple of unrelated conversations with friends working in different agencies about ways to make the most of the social media tools that are becoming crucial to the way we work. Then yesterday, Colin McKay, on the recently launched SoSaidThe.Organization (more on this site below), made [...]
March 15, 2007 – 12:36 pm
I have finally come across a copy of Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Government, 2006 (no link: subscription only). And while I am not a big fan of their literature – I find the hype cycle is too IT focussed and lacks a wider perspective – I thought that I might share a few (belated) observations [...]
News broke yesterday that one of the editors of the site was not the prominent theologian that he claimed, but was in fact a simple university student. It seems people are outraged that the editor, who claimed to be a Professor of Philosophy at a private university, faked his PhD.
Not only were his qualifications bogus [...]
So, after much pre-publicity, speculation and hype, we now have two new Internet portals in the New Zealand market. Last week both Xtra and Microsoft revealed their offerings. And, while I really doubt if anyone outside the relevant organisations cares that much, I thought I would have a quick look at both and pass on [...]
February 23, 2007 – 9:23 am
The excellent Read/WriteWeb (a blog that anyone interested in communications and technology should be reading daily) is running coverage of the Future of Web Apps 2007 Conference in London, and yesterday in their post one line really made me stop. Under the section entitled ‘The Mobile Web’ they note that:
A very interesting fact that is [...]
February 12, 2007 – 7:38 pm
The TimesOnline ran a story last Friday, Fake bloggers soon to be ‘named and shamed’, heralding the passing into law of a EU directive that bans sockpuppetry.
And while I have to admit that this is admirable in its intent, I really am struggling to come to terms with how on earth they are going to [...]
February 2, 2007 – 3:32 pm
Yesterdays post about social tools in newspapers got me thinking about the prevalence of RSS feeds in the government namespace. I was saying that RSS was now mainstream and that it was only a matter of time before all our feed stats were going through the roof. Mmm, not quite.
I did a quick whip around [...]
February 1, 2007 – 4:02 pm
I posted before Chrsitmas about the launch of the new websites for the Herald and the Dominion Post. At the time I focussed on the fact that Fairfax, in keeping with their strategy for their Australian papers, had not implemented RSS feeds on the site. I charitably described it this way:
Smart move. Why would you [...]
