Sunday, July 24, 2005

University of Colorado servers hacked We are seeing universities being hacked often, and earlier in July, two hacks at University of Colorado: The University of Colorado has become the latest educational institution to fall prey to hackers. The school is warning about 43,000 people that they may be at risk of having their identities stolen after two of its servers were attacked, it said Thursday. The University of Southern California said a database containing about 270,000 records of past applicants was hacked in June. The public naming and shaming of data-keeping organization won't continue to make the news when these are happening so often. 4:15:04 PM    comment [] Make the T-shirt first Over at Creating Passionate Users (a blog I subscribe to), I found the following perspective posted earlier this month: Guy Kawasaki (the original Mac evangelist for Apple) said it in his 1992 book Selling the Dream: make the t-shirt before you make the product. If you're a team lead, project manager, open source evangelist... make the t-shirt. I'm thinking about our egovernment T-shirt, not for your state portal, nor our country's best website, but for the idea of egovernment. We're not getting passionate about it. 4:01:58 PM    comment [] Emerging Technologies for egovernment ET.gov - "ET.gov aims to help facilitate the discovery of various types of components which may be beneficial to the government and provide a formal channel by which emerging technologies can be evaluated. ET.gov will help to facilitate communication between CIOs, governmental decision makers, Submitters and other integrators by taking a standards-based approach to capitalize on the benefits of XML and maximize the benefits of the World Wide Web. By providing a standard XML schema for component description and a submission point from which components can be evaluated, ET.gov is designed to aid the discovery of new technologies..." NIST's et.gov site opens up new frontiers, By Wilson P. Dizard III. Government Computer News, v.24, no.19, 18 July 2005. "Like the trail of Reese's Pieces laid down to entice an extraterrestrial in a well-known science fiction movie, a new interagency project sponsored by the CIO Council is leading federal program managers to promising new technologies..." I'm going to use that analogy "like a trail of Reese's Pieces" next week. I take it as a challenge to work that unobtrusively into a conversation. 3:32:52 PM    comment [] Lotus Notes Blogs: Interesting in the mainstream Bloggen mit Lotus Notes: IBM alphaWorks proudly presents: Weblog Preview. [thomas n. burg | randg[per thou]nge] 3:23:59 PM    comment [] From Australia an EGovernment Resource Centre: United States The Victorian government in Australia has thoroughly organized US online egovernment resources. Proudly, they say: The Victorian Government is widely regarded as a world leader in making its services available to the public online. Since 1995 agencies of the Victorian government have carried out an enormous amount of innovative and practical work aimed at having all suitable services available online by the end of 2001. The results of this work to date can be best seen by visiting DoItOnline on the Victorian Government portal Victoria Online where online services are provided. The eGovernment Resource Centre aggregates our substantial knowledge as to how we, as the Victorian Government, are meeting our goals of providing services online. It is a dynamic site and aims to help us all learn from each other and continue to be the pacesetters in using new technologies to deliver better government services. The site is managed by the Victoria Online team within the Chief Technology Office, Multimedia Victoria, Department of Infrastructure. You have to keep in mind that Victorian doesn't refer to a time period, but a place. 3:18:39 PM    comment []

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