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Comment on Fall cleaning: purging good ideas by Chris Diehl

Chris Diehl — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:43:55 +0000

Your post reminds me of an experience I had during my brief tenure in government. One day, a colleague of mine stopped by my desk and gave me a memo. It was a memo from a former director of the agency I was part of. In this memo, the director was laying out the challenges before the organization as he saw them at the time. From my quick scan, I commented that the vast majority of them remained issues for our organization. This was around 1994. After making that comment, my colleague asked if I noticed the date on the memo. It was dated 1980.

I had the same questions back then that you raise here. Personally I decided I had better odds of making a significant impact from outside the government than from within. I believe in the idea that sometimes a new network is needed to transform the old. One that can grow in an environment relatively unconstrained by the parameters that gave rise to the existing network. How one achieves this in practice is anyone’s guess when it comes to daunting challenges. We must simply continue to experiment and explore potential solutions along social, cultural and technological dimensions.

Comment on Fall cleaning: purging good ideas by kelcym

kelcym — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:16:14 +0000

Not sure that I would be ready to talk about it yet. I need to think more about this as I finish purging all those good ideas. May just write about it for now and see where the thoughts take me.

Comment on Fall cleaning: purging good ideas by Mark Drapeau

Mark Drapeau — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:55:09 +0000

If only there were a Gov 2.0 Fail conference you could speak at about this topic!

Comment on Can innovators and change agents survive in performance-based evaluation systems? by nymbus

nymbus — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:29:27 +0000

this sure saddens me, kelcy. i feel ur pain. i am in the same boat.

Comment on Are You on the Global Frequency? by kelcym

kelcym — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:31:18 +0000

I think the value to the Global Frequency graphic novels is that technology is pervasively ubiquitous and therefore both part of the solution as well as the problem. Technology is agnostic but can be used for good and evil. The Global Frequency stories illustrate that dual-sided nature as technology is wielded by human beings to try to fix some human evil where technology went wild. But first and foremost in the stories are the people (both good and bad) as they struggle to quickly fix or stop some horrific problem.

There are two separate books in the Global Frequency set: Planet Ablaze and Radio Detonation. You really need to read both. The superprocessor Aleph has a separate story line in Radio Detonation that provides some very good background into her role, although you see her taking action to some degree in every story.

Comment on Are You on the Global Frequency? by lewisshepherd

lewisshepherd — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:38:45 +0000

Sounds exciting – and yes, “fun” I’m going to read the book as well. We’re already beginning to reap enormous _technical_ benefits from parallel processing, or “superprocessing,” but I hadn’t thought about the social benefits. And the collaborative expert-network-forming along dynamic lines sounds like a really souped-up use of semantic computing, one of the technologies that I (always) see such promise in. Now I’m really psyched to read the novel. Thanks for the great tip, Kelcy.

Comment on Thoughts on the OGI panel on Securing Web 2.0 and Social Media by kelcym

kelcym — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:33:15 +0000

I think technology has a very important role to play in securing web2.0 and social media especially both in the area of training/education and informing. I know that there are many others who can talk to the issues of protection better than I can. Some of the areas where I think that technology can help would be in storytelling and mashups to create educational products like games, comics and storylines where the public can help develop the products that educate on various aspects of securing web2.0 and social media. Perhaps this could be done as a contest at young ages (e.g. K-12) with awards. Technology could also help with sharing ideas. And a reporting system for reporting possible problems. Right now if you have a problem with a social software app, who looks at the information to see if it is just a technical problem or something more sinister. And technology can help to develop tools to process complex multi-dimensional social and infrastructure data to see if there are problems starting to arise. And finally putting social software will of course be important to get those good brains engaged.

Comment on Thoughts on the OGI panel on Securing Web 2.0 and Social Media by Bob Gourley

Bob Gourley — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:00:50 +0000

I have been thinking about this topic for a while and wish I had good answers. Your post has made me think about it more and I still don’t have good answers. Intuitively I feel like comprehensive user training is a big piece of the solution. I also strongly support your call for a threat brief, for standards, and for continuing dialog.

I’m hoping that if I noodle on this for a while I can also suggest technology contributions to this effort, but something tells me technology solutions will always be behind the continually evolving threat and their use of these tools. Which brings us back to comprehensive training. We need to get every good brain engaged on this.

See you online,
Bob

Comment on Georgia OKeefe’s desert by Sojourner Atlass

Sojourner Atlass — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:00:14 +0000

So that photo, you know, shows the form of a right hand making a peace sign – or, one-half of Richard Nixon’s ‘Victory’ gesture

Comment on Georgia OKeefe’s desert by “Knowledge Artists” « In Search of Knowledge

“Knowledge Artists” « In Search of Knowledge — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:22:44 +0000

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