http://www.lnwprogram.org/blog/ LNW Blog OpenACS 5.0 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:46:56 GMT http://www.lnwprogram.org/rss-support/images/openacs_logo_rss.gif http://www.lnwprogram.org/blog/ 126 48 http://www.lnwprogram.org/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=470526 http://www.lnwprogram.org/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=470526  [Posted by Zach Tumin, Executive Director, LNW Program]  We spent the day today in a small planning session called, "Information Sharing In Cross-Boundary, Shared Mission Environments: The Challenge of Standards." Good friends and colleagues from several "Five Star" standards organizations, government agencies, and corporations came together to map out where the major standards efforts should be next. Which should we put our shoulder against -- whether new standards or those ... Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:46:56 GMT http://www.lnwprogram.org/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=468172 http://www.lnwprogram.org/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=468172 Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size... Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:50:07 GMT http://www.lnwprogram.org/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=457632 http://www.lnwprogram.org/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=457632 Election day, finally, in the U.S.  By tomorrow the direction for change will be clearer. And major change is inevitable. The economic and political conditions globally will force movement that until now was "too painful" to be taken seriously. But with serious pain inevitable, what will we do? Will we take advantage of the crisis to first understand and then create the governance we need: more transparent, accountable, and responsive more equitable and humane and, yes... Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:22:54 GMT http://www.lnwprogram.org/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=455574 http://www.lnwprogram.org/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=455574 Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size... Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:02:53 GMT http://www.lnwprogram.org/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=421234 http://www.lnwprogram.org/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=421234 Brooks Patterson and Phil Bertolini of Oakland County Michigan -- the County Executive and Deputy County Executive -- have a piece below that explores what appears to be an all-too-rare form of cross-jurisdictional cooperation. To repeat their question: what do you think?  ============================================ Shared System Investments: How Can We Capture the Benefits? L. Brooks Patterson ? County Executive, Oakland County, Michigan Phil Bertolini ? Deputy County... Wed, 21 May 2008 02:06:35 GMT http://www.lnwprogram.org/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=401417 http://www.lnwprogram.org/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=401417 I hope this is of interest. The Leadership for a Networked World program will run a small online research seminar from April 14 to approximately the end of June. The group will use wiki and other technology and will focus on: What CIOs need to know and do, especially in settings where IT-enabled change is or should be a strategic concern to the organization's senior leaders. The extent to which wiki-enabled collaboration could generate cost-effective improvements in the disseminat... Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:10:22 GMT http://www.lnwprogram.org/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=399490 http://www.lnwprogram.org/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=399490 A recent DOJ decision looks to have completely ignored the long-term impacts of digital data infrastructure on energy conservation and the global climate. I'm speaking of narrowly focusing on music distribution in allowing the merger to proceed between XM and Sirius satellite radio. According to a recent post of Philip Greenspun -- a friend of my former deputy Cesar Brea -- the new XM/Sirius monopoly will jump the price of satellite data (doubling it or more). This will limit the benefits o... Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:43:15 GMT http://www.lnwprogram.org/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=397332 http://www.lnwprogram.org/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=397332 Imagine we're talking with a visitor from outer space, one sent to help us assess our situation and what's required for the future. Our guest asks first about the big picture: Over time, what has most changed the human condition? In exploring this, we soon agree that the big changes started with new knowledge. We learned about -- and then took advantage of -- bronze, coal, steel, antibiotics, hybrid corn, atomic energy, the net (TCP/IP) and the web (html). Early learning was about how... Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:54:09 GMT http://www.lnwprogram.org/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=394430 http://www.lnwprogram.org/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=394430 Among my first "real world" assignments after graduate school was trying to improve productivity in the Sanitation Department of Mayor John V. Lindsay of New York City. At that time, the typical garbage collection crew loaded 6 tons into their collection truck, then did something else as the truck traveled to the dump and back. They then continued loading for an average of one additional ton per crew. But wait. Trucks were available that held 8 tons. We tested them to see if they were to... Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:22:16 GMT http://www.lnwprogram.org/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=388412 http://www.lnwprogram.org/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=388412 We had a great session with him last week. OK, so Al Gore didn't really invent the Internet. But TBL DID invent the web. As he said, it was "simply" a way to marry hypertext to the Internet, to save people a lot of hassle finding documents. I recommend Cesar Brea's engaging summary of the session HERE Skim to view the big picture or knock yourself out following some of the links (especially to the Hans Rosling presentation). The Semantic web claims it will do for data what the ... Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:21:09 GMT