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Sunday, July 3, 2005
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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.)
7:55:06 PM
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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]
7:48:31 PM
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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.
7:32:14 PM
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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.
7:12:16 PM
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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.
7:08:19 PM
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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."
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"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."
6:39:47 PM
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