June 2008

A short leap from good PR into the fire

June 26, 2008

I started getting phone calls from a certain BI bigshot’s public relations firm after I mentioned his firm in a story. The woman who called every few weeks seemed too sweet for the job, but some days any friendly voice gets in. I always talked to her but always held her off.

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Privatizing data for Gov2.0?

June 24, 2008

If bureaucrats were to shut down their websites and simply fed data to whoever wanted to comb it out, as one group will soon propose, would we have failed at Government 2.0?

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A new day for data

June 23, 2008

Almost no one has mentioned Government 2.0 in the same breath as business intelligence—yet they’re destined for each other.

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Ghostly outlines of Government 2.0

June 18, 2008

I was thinking about Government 2.0 at about midnight last night—when the dark, quiet world gives way to ghosts. Then it’s easy to imagine BI tools and methods opening government to the masses.

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