Digital Government
Obama's Facebook fans love Michelle; Romney's love winning
Data scraping reveals striking differences between the campaigns' Facebook audiences.
People
Feds well-represented on innovator list
Members of the Obama administration and both parties in Congress are among the top 20 innovators in democracy on TechCrunch's list.
Digital Government
Voting as an irrational act
Steve Kelman suggests that voting, objectively, makes little sense, especially when one has to wait hours for a moment in the voting booth. Yet millions of Americans do it anyway. Why?
Digital Government
VA struggles to serve New York City veterans after Manhattan facility floods
Some calls to emergency numbers go unanswered.
Emerging Tech
Your guide to the election and social media
The role of Facebook, Twitter and newer services in voting, monitoring and calling the results.
Digital Government
Google iOS Maps app will be ready by 2013, if Apple will have it
It is unlikely, however, that Apple will accept the mapping app
Modernization
Mobile apps help campaigns track voters
The Romney campaign's Project Orca and the Democratic Party's Mobile Pollwatcher app are helping count voters.
Digital Government
Electronic filing simplifies review of Medicare payments
Providers have complained a paper-based process is burdensome.
Modernization
The iPad Mini did not break a weekend sales record
While Apple says it sold 3 million miniature tablets, but that number is less than previous years.
Digital Government
Japan plans development of missile-tracking UAVs
Goal is to deploy drones in 2020.
Cybersecurity
Could Decision 2012 be hacked?
Electronic voting -- and even e-mail voting in some parts of storm-ravaged New Jersey -- brings security risks.
Digital Government
Telework allows 70 percent productivity at PTO during Sandy
Was your agency also able to carry on during the storm?
Cybersecurity
Governments and companies band together to push cyber protections
Organizations that fail to follow the protocols could be more vulnerable to lawsuits.
Digital Government
Sandy shows storm-prediction progress
As bad as Sandy was, it could have been far worse. Advances in the government's prediction tools allowed early, accurate warning.
People
NARA map shows elections past and future
An interactive online map allows users to research past presidential elections or apply state-by-state scenarios to the current one to see how various state wins or losses affects electoral vote totals.
Digital Government
New Jersey to allow voting by email (and fax) for residents displaced by Superstorm Sandy
Anyone displaced by the hurricane just got declared an overseas voter
Ideas
TechAmerica names new board chairman
HP Enterprise Services VP Dennis Stolkey is a longtime board member
People