Wednesday, July 17, 2002

Dave Winer offers this viewpoint, "Somehow the information technology industry, which is still riding Moore's curve, should be able to make some lemonade out of this. We're learning about the pitiful information technology at the SEC and the FBI. They desperately need the combo of weblogs and search engines. Their legacy systems are horribly out of date. Off to the glue factory. Meanwhile the general stagnation in the software industry, which is the core the western economy now, is a huge problem, and people aren't even talking about it. We're stuck behind a horribly inefficient system for trying out new ideas. A Hollywood movie gets much more funding than a breakthrough software idea. That seems out of whack to me. The venture capital industry doesn't get money into the hands of the unemployed technologists in Silicon Valley. I work for government. Training in Application Development is the single biggest need for Denver's IT world. Weblogs are up there also. We've implemented a couple of them for project reporting and they work. I want to wire ours up to a search engine next. Building on this offer, I want to offer any City and County of Denver employee the opportunity to start their own weblog. e-mail: jworr@operamail.com 6:57:53 PM

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