Todd's Old Blog

Category: Technology

  • Public Servants: What are you broadcasting via social media?

    It seem we’re regularly being served additional reminders about the way we sometimes use social messaging to our detriment, and with increasing frequency, how it is sometimes being used against us. Consider the Janine Krieber kerfuffle, where the wife of former Canadian Liberal Party leader Stephane Dion criticized the current state of the party in…

  • CPR Wordle 2009

    An Apology — In a previous post I outright lied misspoke when I said: “I’ve been blogging for a couple of years now, but have ended up abandoning — then deleting — every blog I’ve ever started.” In fact, I’ve neglected to delete Canadian Privacy Roundup — a “blog” which I’ve been alternately maintaining and…

  • My First Steps into Google Wave

    Recently, I received a Wave invitation from a twitter colleague (thanks Steve! — and before you inundate him with requests, realize that he’s probably exhausted his supply). I’ve been much too bogged down at work to even make an initial exploration into Wave’s use, but as things are about to ease up a bit, now’s…

  • Global Privacy Protection in the Internet Age

    Since beginning my position as a privacy analyst a couple of years ago, I have gained increasing appreciation for the difficulty involved in protecting personal information in documents while still granting necessary access to sensitive material for legitimate use. Even when the information changes hands within a small and protected group, as it does with…

  • The Future of GCconnex

    Note: This post contains links only accessible within the Government of Canada network. Recently, GCconnex (the Government of Canada’s professional networking platform) conducted a 14 day survey (October 20 to November 2, 2009) to gather user impressions. Now, Thom Kearney has posted the results of the 253 completed responses, along with an invitation for users…

  • How GCPEDIA will Save the Public Service, revisited

    In March of 2009 David Eaves suggested that GCPEDIA will save the public service .  As a public servant and a GCPEDIA administrator, I’d like to believe he’s right.  His main argument was that GCPEDIA has the potential to become the repository of much knowledge that will be lost (or at least not conveniently accessible) once…

  • Crafting Your Personal Brand

    Creating a persona isn’t new to you.  You’ve probably already created various online identities to participate in online games, chat rooms, or special interest communities.  Your range of profiles may vary from a slight obfuscation of your real self and real name, to a completely fictitious phantasm. What I would like to do is talk…

  • Wikinomics

    I’ve just begun reading Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams. I admit, I was excited to read this.  While I had some concerns about the concept of “Wikinomics”, this factored greatly into my interest in reading. Not at all surprisingly, two things were immediately unsettling early in the…

  • Web X.x?

    At the risk of sounding old, I remember when the web was in black and white. Or rather, when text was a default black, backgrounds were grey, fresh links were blue, old links were purple, and the combination of limited technology and limited knowledge prevented most web content from diverging from that scheme. This was…