Mostly Ignored
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US Health Care: Why Privatization Is Inefficient – Part 1
Update: Feb 15, 2010 — Since this post was originally published, the Democrats lost their vote in the US Senate, but the Obama Administration is still pushing for a major overhaul of the American health care system. Twenty-one members of Congress (12 Democrats and 9 Republicans) have been invited to a conference on healthcare set…
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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…
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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…
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Adventures with Koodo Mobile
I haven’t had a wireless phone for 9 years — not since my last contract expired. I could expound on that statement, but why? The fact that I’ve avoided any attachment to the industry for as long as I have probably summarizes my experience better than any words I could write. In the years since,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Alternative Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
Alternative Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous is a forthcoming syndicated television series scheduled to premiere this fall, featuring the incomparable, incommensurable, and now ailing and incomprehensible Robin Leech. The show features the unusual and unknown lifestyles of entertainers, athletes, business personalities, and other wealthy and successful individuals that you’re completely fascinated to learn more…