Digital Government
Private sector zips past government in Recovery Act tracking
One company already has built a Web site it claims tracks all federal, state and local stimulus spending.
Modernization
Verizon: Organized crime behind data breaches
The company studied 90 confirmed network breaches and found that 91 percent were linked to organized crime.
Ideas
A New, New Media Chief at Defense?
Seems like the White House got the memo on the <a href="http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20090415_8127.php">importance of social media to national security</a>.
Digital Government
No Worries About Chinese Hackers
While the intelligence community has uncovered evidence of Chinese penetration of U.S. banking networks, Joel Brenner, national counterintelligence executive, said he's not worried "that the Chinese government wants to bring down our banking system."
Modernization
Pointers: Recommended Reading (Facebook edition)
This week's list: Facebook for beginners; Who's who in social media; A manager's guide to social media; and Facebook apps for a better life.
Acquisition
Bid protests keep pace with DOD spending
The number of protests against the Defense Department's contract awards increase along with DOD's spending, GAO says.
Digital Government
Klossner: On your mark, get set, stimulate!
FCW cartoonist John Klossner tries to imagine how agencies might coach employees on how to spend boatload of stimulus bucks on tight deadlines.
Modernization
41 states and DC now publishing tax-expenditure reports
Many states are now releasing tax-break tallies, according to a new report.
Acquisition
Recommended reading: Cybersecurity outrage, BlackBerry tips and more
Here is a roundup of interesting articles from around the Web this week.
Modernization
Lawmakers lag in publishing schedules online
Only 10 members of Congress publish their schedules on their Web sites despite encouragement from transparency advocates.
Modernization
New performance self-assessment tool launched
The developers say the application calculates a federal employee’s strengths, weaknesses and potential for a pay raise in an annual evaluation.
People
Cureton: Time to face your Facebook phobia
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center CIO Linda Cureton provides some straightforward advice to those who are timid about embracing Facebook.
Cybersecurity
Drapeau: Web 2.0 best practices already surface
Agencies are starting to learn smart ways to use emerging technologies for communicating with citizens and each other.
People
Government takes Web 2.0 with a Web 1.0 mindset
The buzz suggests that enterprise 2.0 is poised to change how we work and govern. But that is not happening yet. Instead, most experiments with enterprise 2.0 have been limited to the creation of additional communication channels. There is much more the tools could do.
Digital Government