Digital Government
Earthquakes are something to tweet about
Tweets are far from being scientific information, but the U.S. Geological Survey is finding Twitter helpful in monitoring earthquakes in real time.
Digital Government
Public safety officials to kick off lobbying blitz for spectrum
Police chiefs, sheriffs, emergency communications professionals and others plan to lobby Capitol Hill next week to persuade lawmakers to reallocate a block of spectrum for the creation of a nationwide interoperable public safety broadband network.
Digital Government
Spill prompts NOAA to define its data management architecture
Federal Computer Week
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DHS will establish consolidated intelligence portal
Bottom-up review notes plans to create an information sharing architecture that centralizes departmentwide threat data.
Digital Government
Contractors caught gaming the system avoid punishment
Eight months after GAO finds fraud in the service-disabled veteran-owed small business program, not a single firm has been suspended.
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Minerals Management Service's replacement still has no website
Open government advocates worry the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement's lack of an online presence is an indication of a persistence of poor management.
Digital Government
New TSP site drives traffic, gets mixed reviews
Visitors note glitches in retirement calculators and call for a more convenient place to leave feedback.
Digital Government
Wanna-be federal teleworkers raise their voices
Anyone doubting feds’ deep-seated desire to telework had better take a look at some of the activity on the GovCareerNetwork blog over the last 48 hours.
Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity Contest Winners Named
The Homeland Security Department on Wednesday <a href=http://www.dhs.gov/ynews/releases/pr_1279145110641.shtm>named the winners</a> of its National Cybersecurity Awareness Challenge, in which individuals and businesses competed for the best promotional campaigns that raise the public's awareness about information security.
Digital Government
DARPA's Lee to Microsoft
Wired's Danger Room <a href=http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/darpa-crowdsourcer-in-chief-bolts-for-microsoft/>reports</a> that Peter Lee, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's "leading advocate for crowdsourcing and other ways of tapping new talent is leaving to join Microsoft." Lee, former head of Carnegie Mellon University's computer science department, was at DARPA for only a year. He developed DARPA's <a href= http://whatsbrewin.nextgov.com/2010/05/apps_for_the_army_1_transformative_apps_0.php>Transformative Apps</a> program.
Ideas
LOL, Man
Do you find yourself speaking in abbreves? Using emoticons in text messages? Or even in work-related emails? Everyday English is incorporating more and more Internet-speak, which is changing the way we communicate, accoring to <a href=http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128356609>NPR</a>.
Digital Government
DARPA crowdsourcing chief joins Microsoft
Peter Lee, head of DARPA's Transformational Convergence Technology Office, is stepping down to join Microsoft.
Digital Government
How big is the oil spill? See how far it would stretch in your hometown
Just how far does the spill from BP's Deepwater Horizon rig really go? It's easy to lose sight of the scale of the millions of gallons of oil in the Gulf of Mexico, but what if the source of the gusher were in your hometown?
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