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Sunday, July 3, 2005
 

 Who blogs?

Utah Elected Officials Invited to Blog. It's been long overdue, but enterprising individuals are now realizing the potential market for hosting blogs for elected officials and those running for office. Utahpolicy.com announced today a new service inviting Utah politicos to communicate with the public using the new Utah Policymaker Blog. [RSS in Government]
Sounds like something California could use too. Last election we had very few elected officials, and hopefuls writing blogs. I remember Sharon Davis (recalled Gov Gray Davis' spouse) blogged for a while (at the now-abandoned domain, no-recall.com.)

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Irish Local Governments Get Nooked. Two Irish County Councils and several other Irish, Northern Ireland, and UK government agencies are publishing press releases using the new Nooked hosted online RSS publishing service. [RSS in Government]
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Are you Chief Blogging Officer Material?. Does your state or agency have a Chief Blogging Officer? Government is already rife with chiefs, why not one more? HighBeam Research, Inc. has set the pace by announcing today the appointment of Christopher Locke as its Chief Blogging Officer (CBO). HighBeam also announces a pilot program offering a select group of bloggers exclusive use of its new "blog this document" tools and free access to the company's premium archives. [RSS in Government]
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Decoys Suggested for Pentagon Network . Two of the Pentagon's leading technologists propose defending the military's Global Information Grid by using decoy networks and "honey pots" to fool hackers. By Dawn S. Onley. [Technology - Industry News, Policy, and Reviews]
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NASA's Deep Impact to hit Comet Tempel 1 tonight.  NASA TV schedule covers the "collision" today  8:30 p.m. PDT to early tomorrow 12:30 a.m. (July 4)  Deep Impact Commentary. expected impact at 10:52 p.m.). For me,  closest observatory viewings may be Chico, California.


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On a completely different subject, Chris Pratley offers some tips about Microsoft OneNote. I've intended to try OneNote when I don't have so much else to explore.

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Ray Matthews, at  RSS in Government, wrote "California a Dollar Short, a Day Late?" late in 2004. He mention that RSS could help some of the California IT Strategic Plan's Objectives:
  • Make government services more accessible to citizens and State clients.

  • Implement common business applications and systems to improve efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

  • Lower costs and improve the security, reliability and performance of the State's IT infrastructure.


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At  Gotzeblogged, Dr. John G[macron]tze wrote about interoperability and standards:

As reported by Geir N[macron]klebye, and picked up by Slashdot, Phil Windley and others, the Norweigian government has presented a new plan for information technology in Norway. At the press conference yesterday, the Norwegian Minister of Modernization Morten Andreas Meyer declared "Proprietary formats will no longer be acceptable in communication between citizens and government", N[radical][product]klebye reports.



The Norwegian plan is called eNorge 2009. It is only available in Norwegian (indeed only in one of the Norwegian languages; fortunately the one I understand), but I hope they will translate it. In my translation, here are two very central quotes on open standards:

"Public authorities must use open standards in their IT and information systems. Deviations from this must be substantiated."
...
"By 2009, all new IT and information systems in the public sector must use open standards."

The plan introduces the term Government Standards (forvaltningsstandarder), and emphasises that such must be based on open standards..

[Gotzeblogged] Much more is at his weblog, so read it all when you have a chance. I had a few problems with  the non-English character in "N[macron]klebye" in the RSS feed and posting from it, and I have no idea how to pronounce "N[macron]klebye."

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Don't Let Data Theft Happen to You. The recent spate of data breaches is worrisome, and although there are steps you can take to protect yourself - and you should - there are no guarantees. By M.P. DUNLEAVEY. [NYT > Technology]


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