Tornado Provides GoCHO.com With Its First Test
Last Thursday, as thunder pealed in the background, I turned the television on to the local NBC affiliate to see what was happening with the weather. As it turned…
The Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS), in the Context of Semantic Web Deployment
This past Thursday, May 8th I had the privilege to attend a presentation at the Library of Congress by Alistair Miles, key developer of SKOS, and semantic web practitioner…
beCamp session notes: How to choose your development language
Today I’m attending beCamp at the offices of CBIC on the downtown mall in Charlottesville. There have been some very interesting sessions already and attendance is great. I suggested…
Facebook Applications and Privacy Concerns
This week I spoke at the LSP Conference at UVa, and while I was there, I got to attend several other speeches that were very interesting. One that I…
Continuous Integration and Testing Conference (CITCON) in Denver Colorado
I attended the Continuous Integration and Testing Conference (CITCON) in Denver Colorado last weekend and I have to say that I was impressed by the effectiveness of the OpenSpace…
New FedBizOpps A Step In the Right Direction
During FOSE, I was surprised to find that FedBizOpps had completely changed its format, look, feel, and usability. I found out about this because I had bookmarked several pages…
Observations from FOSE Day 2
The people who came by our booth yesterday seemed to represent a slightly different mindset than what we saw in Day 1. I can still categorize the attendees: People…
If Free Is the Future of Business, Why Does the Government Pay So Much For Proprietary Software?
In the March, 2008 issue of Wired Magazine, Chris Anderson wrote an article positing that the marginal cost of technologies which drive the Internet (and, by inference, software) will…
Doing Business in Second Life
For a March 18, 2008 presentation on doing business in Second Life for the Charlottesville Business Innovation Council, I developed a white paper covering the background, economics, dos and…
4 Things Google is doing internally to foster collaboration and innovation
There have been a couple interesting blog posts this week that highlight a webinar presentation given by a Google engineer this week about innovation and collaboration, and how they…
Report from MIX08
Now that the conference is so well underway that its almost over, I thought is was high time to share some general thoughts and observations. I tried really hard…
eDemocracy barCamp Podcasting session summary
Last weekend I attended the inaugural eDemocracy barCamp in Washington DC. It was a very good experience and I definitely want to thank all those who organized it. I…