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Saving Money by Slowing Down: Applying Technology
With the high price of gasoline, lots of people are looking for ways to save money on gas. The simplest method is simply to slow down. The drag on a vehicle goes up with the fourth power of the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 15, 2008 2:31 PM
Understanding the Net
Doc Searls must have spent some of his convalescence deep in thought. His recent essay Saving the Net III: Understanding its Frames is a great piece on how we understand and don't understand the Net. This is a long... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 9, 2008 9:47 AM
Open Source and The Gap
David Eaves posted a piece overlaying the Firefox 3 Pledge Map and Thomas Barnett's map that divides the world into the "the functioning core" and the "non-integrated gap." As you might expect, there's a high correlation. People in the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 3, 2008 9:56 AM
Follow the Elections on '08 Conversations
Doug Kaye has turned the resources of the Conversations Network on the 2008 election with '08 Conversations. The idea is to team with the Public Radio Exchange to publish stories about the election you might not otherwise here. Joel... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 12, 2008 5:48 AM
Final: 2008 Utah State Republican Convention
Greg Curtis and John Valentine, House Speaker and Senate President(click to enlarge) I'm at the Utah State Party Convention this morning. There are literally thousands of people here. Traffic was backed up off the exit ramp near UVU (where... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 10, 2008 10:41 AM
NewsGang Fantasies: The Dream Team
I enjoy the News Gang, The Gang, the Gillmor Gang, or whatever it's called. Actually, I think Steve's starting to call it all the Gillmor Gang again and that's good. That's the right name and brand for Steve's podcasts.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 14, 2008 10:09 PM
True Grassroots Politics
I just got back from my precinct caucus meeting (Republican) where I was elected by my friends and neighbors as precinct Vice Chair for the coming two years. I was conducting the meeting as Chair. I love caucus meetings.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 25, 2008 10:51 PM
Utah Holds Caucuses Tonight: Change Congress
Utah will hold caucus meetings tonight for the purpose of selecting delegates to the county and state conventions. Your voice is amplified many times over by being part of the process that decides who's on the ballot rather than... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 25, 2008 7:15 AM
Why Electronic Employment Verification Is a Bad Idea
When Americans (led by Lou Dobbs) scream "do something about illegal immigration" at the top of their lungs, you know we're going to get saddled with a bunch of awful ideas. One of those is Electronic Employment Verification, or... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 18, 2008 7:50 PM
Dreams from My Father: My Attempts to Know Obama
I just finished reading Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance over the weekend. Like many I'm intrigued with Barack Obama and would like to understand him better. I feel like reading the book certainly helped... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 18, 2008 9:08 AM
John McCain Wants to Be My Friend!
I got an invitation from John McCain to be his friend on LinkedIn: So far 103 people are John McCain's friends on LinkedIn. I accepted, naturally, based on our close association in the US Navy--not withstanding the fact that... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 18, 2008 8:21 AM
Lacy's Woven World Moment
Reading Scoble's Audience of Twittering Assholes on the Sarah Lacy botch of the Zuckerman interview adds a data point--and an interesting one--to something I talked about a few weeks ago in a post entitled Organizing Ourselves. The point of... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 11, 2008 11:27 AM
Larry Lessig on Changing Congress
Larry Lessig on Changing Congress(click to enlarge) Lessig's keynotes are hard to blog, but the message isn't. Lessig's basic message is that government makes poor policy--even when the choice ought to be easy. The problem isn't overt bribery. In... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 5, 2008 8:49 PM
Organizing Ourselves
I was listening to Jon Udell's interview with Valdis Krebs on IT Conversations and Valdis tell the story of seeing hotels guests self-organize to deal with hotel management about the awful Wi-Fi service. He says: Hotels are used to... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 1, 2008 1:52 PM
Utah May Reject REAL ID
Yesterday, the Government Operations Committee of the Utah House of Representatives voted unanimously for a bill (HB449) that would bar the Utah Driver's License Division from implementing the REAL ID act of 2005. Utah isn't alone, a number of... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 20, 2008 11:24 AM
Undersea Cables, Connectivity, and the Gap
I'm a fan of Thomas Barnett's gap-core lens for understanding world events. My simple paraphrase goes something like this: states that are part of the core (and that's a lot of them) don't make war on each other, don't... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 19, 2008 2:57 PM
Universal Housing Anyone?
Dave says: But there are some things we can change, and if you have a heart, and think about it, I don't see how anyone could be against universal health care and still sleep at night. From Debating health... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 8, 2008 7:53 PM
Change, Motherhood, and Apple Pie
When I worked at Naval Reactors, we had a shorthand for statements no one could argue with. Someone would say something and someone else would just say "motherhood." Everyone understood the shorthand: what you just said is like motherhood... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 5, 2008 5:47 PM
Utah Election and Caucus Information
Utah Capitol Building(click to enlarge) Utah will participate in the Super Tuesday presidential primary on February 5th (as do 23 other states). Then on March 25th, we'll hold the regular statewide caucus meetings to elect delegates to the state... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 23, 2008 8:56 PM
Starting a High Tech Business: You Need a CTO
I'm starting a new business called Kynetx. As I go through some of the things I do, I'm planning to blog them. The whole series will be here. This is the sixth installment. You may find my efforts instructive.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 18, 2007 12:59 PM
Pakistan is Iran 30 Years Ago
Here's a very informative--and scary--analysis from David Ignatius about how our experience in Iran 30 years ago ought to inform our interactions with Pakistan today.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 29, 2007 5:14 PM
CTO Breakfast Report
As we did introductions today, a surprising number of people were remodeling their basement (time of the year, I guess). Consequently we ended up talking about home theaters set ups for the first part of the meeting. Interesting tidbit:... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 29, 2007 10:07 AM
Managing the Legislature
There was a time that people in the Drivers License Bureau didn't want to be in the ID business. I can remember having the head of Utah's DL bureau tell me in no uncertain terms that the drivers license... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 26, 2007 1:13 PM
Ike: An American Hero
I just finished reading Ike: An American Hero, Michael Korda's biography of Eisenhower. I'm a sucker for biographies, particularly US Presidents and I'd not read one of Ike before, although I'd had Steve Ambrose's two-volumn set on my list... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 18, 2007 9:09 AM
Is There Anything Good About Men?
This provocatively entitled paper by Roy Baumeister, Eppes Eminent Professor of Psychology & Head of Social Psychology Area at Florida State University, is very interesting. A refreshing look at alternative interpretations of data on gender in human relations and... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 21, 2007 5:26 PM
Top Ten IT Conversations Shows for June 2007
Note: Several people asked (in comments) for summaries of the programs. I've modified the program I use to generate this list to add summaries. So, here's the same list with summaries). Here are the top ten most downloaded shows... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 6, 2007 4:36 PM
Justinian's Flea
A few weeks ago I was walking through Borders and saw Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe. This, frankly, is the kind of book I can't resist. I was expecting a book about a period of... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 25, 2007 9:51 PM
Fake Colgate and China Wars
If you want to understand stories about tainted dog food and fake, poison toothpaste, listen to part I and part II of Moira's interview with Peter Navarro. I bought and read Navarro's book, the Coming China Wars after listening... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 22, 2007 2:10 PM
The Contrarian Solution for Iran
Time for some Saturday politics. Almost everyday there's a story on the news about Iran and the showdown that the media is hoping will happen over Iran's nuclear ambitions. Meanwhile, Pakistan is the elephant in the room. The media... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 16, 2007 8:00 AM
Black Swans and the Impact of Improbable Events
Black Swans(click to enlarge) Yesterday, Nassim Nicholas Taleb was on Talk of the Nation talking about his book Black Swan. Of course, we published Moira Gunn's interview with Taleb a few weeks ago on IT Conversations. The name comes... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 22, 2007 4:51 PM
Web Science: Do We Need a New Discipline?
Web Science panel(click to enlarge) I'm in a panel at WWW2007 on Web Science, essentially a proposal for a new discipline. The field would be interdisciplinary, taking things from areas as diverse as sociology, physics, biology, law, and psychology,... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 9, 2007 11:54 AM
Barnett from PopTech!
I just finished watching Thomas Barnett's talk from PopTech! I like reading Barnett, but watching him is another thing altogether. He's a very good presenter and very entertaining. If you want a gentle introduction, watch the video. I don't... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 17, 2007 10:45 AM
Pravda on Imus
I really hadn't intended to write any more about Imus, but then I saw a pointer to a Pravda story on Doc's blog. You'll remember that Pravda was the feared organ of state propaganda under the Soviets. Now, it... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 17, 2007 8:26 AM
PodCorps.org
Doug Kaye, the man behind IT Conversations is launching PodCorps.org. Th goal is to create a network of podcasting stringers and event producers who can record and publish important spoken-word events anywhere in the world. One of the goals... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 16, 2007 1:17 PM
Imus and Speech
Today on NPR, Juan Williams was dissecting the Don Imus imbroglio, including his firing, and the discussion turned to why Black rappers can get away with saying things Imus can't. Lots of pop-psychology, history, race relations, and the like... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 13, 2007 11:50 AM
Barnett's Grand Unifying Theory
Thomas Barnett, who I interviewed on IT Conversations 18 months ago is in Alaska and writing some very good stuff. I love to see his spin on the news--of course that's because I agree with him so often! The... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 6, 2007 5:07 PM
Jim Harper Testifying Tomorrow
Jim Harper, who spoke in Utah last November will be testifying before the Utah Government Operations Committee at 8:15 in Room W010 of the Capitol. I'm sure his testimony will be in regard to this resolution against the RealID... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 12, 2007 3:01 PM
Cheap Pseudonyms, Privacy, and Sex Offenders
The BBC is reporting on a move by the British government to require convicted sex offenders to register their online identities. Of course, it only takes a minute of thought before you realize that its so easy to get... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 6, 2007 1:57 PM
Stubborness Isn't the Same as Resoluteness
Barnett on the troop surge strategy: In the normal world, those are all considered big signs that one's thinking is sort of screwed up, but Bush, who confuses stubbornness and incuriosity with resoluteness and certitude, chooses his own path.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 31, 2007 8:43 PM
Can You Regulate VoIP?
House Bill 119 (First Substitute) would tax VoIP service for E911 service: 3 (a) Except as provided in Subsection (3)(b) and subject to the other provisions of this Subsection (3) a county, city, or town within which 911 emergency... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 30, 2007 3:24 PM
Senate Radio
The Utah Senate has a podcast called Senate Radio, a podcast featuring Utah Senators talking about their bills and ideas. Obviously, the interviewer is a friendly, but there's still some good value here. I like that it's a real... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 29, 2007 11:37 AM
Governance As Collaboration: Managing Layers 8 and 9
I'm doing a feature for InfoWorld on SOA governance and collaboration. The genesis was a short piece I did for InfoWorld on emerging collaboration options. Somehow Eric Knorr and I got talking about how SOA was a formalization of... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 25, 2007 7:54 PM
Politicopia: Participatory Legislation
Steve Urquhart is the Rules Chairman of the Utah House of Representative. Before I worked in the Governor's office, I had no idea what that meant. It's a very powerful position because the Rules Committee essentially decides what bills... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 22, 2007 11:02 AM
Practical Choices
Barnett has a great post on Israel and Iran and the choices the Israelis face. Puts it in very stark terms.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 19, 2007 1:55 PM
Jim Harper on Identity and Public Policy
Jim Harper(click to enlarge) Tonight Jim Harper gave a talk on identity and public policy at the Utah State Capitol. I've recorded the talk and will hopefully have it up on IT Conversations soon. Jim starts by telling the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 30, 2006 8:27 PM
All Your Base Are Belong to Us
In case you hadn't heard, Bill Gates is the new Secretary of Defense. Oh, wait...different Gates. All I can say is "it's about time." In fact, it's way past time. I don't care how smart he is or how... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 9, 2006 6:35 AM
UN Response to North Korea's Nuclear Test
With North Korea's testing of a nuclear device, the UN Security Council will be under pressure to take harsh measures. For example, they might condemn the test in vehement tones.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 9, 2006 7:43 AM
Jamie Lewis Keynote: The Evolving IdM Landscape
Jamie Lewis, CEO of Burton Group(click to enlarge) Another highlight of DIDW each year is Jamie Lewis' keynote. Jamie is the CEO of the Burton Group (and, incidentally, wrote the forward to my book on Digital Identity). He believes that... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 13, 2006 10:46 AM
Campaign Sign Mashups
Bryan Catherman's put an interesting article about Pete Ashdown's campaign sign mashup on UtahPolitics.org. I also mentioned it at Between the Lines.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 21, 2006 10:50 AM
Reaching Into MySpace
Ben Rudofsky at EchoDitto is talking about the web as a power base. He uses a specific example of a blogger who isn't just influencing people's opinions, but more specifically their actions. He then makes the obvious leap into... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 17, 2006 11:37 AM
Supporting Utah Dinosaur Curation
You may or may not know it, but Utah has a huge collection of dinosaur fossils. Of course, Utah is where Dinosaur National Park is located. Unfortunately, the facilities for supporting this important collection are in serious disrepair. The... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 19, 2006 11:24 AM
Goodbye Al Mansell
Al Mansell Al Mansell is retiring from the Utah Senate. He was president of the Senate when I was CIO. My most memorable experience of Sen. Mansell is when I was moving all domains from state.ut.us to utah.gov. Al was... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 13, 2006 9:50 PM
Our Nets Are Out Strengths
Tom Barnett, who I interviewed last year on IT Conversations, has a very rational view on what terrorism really means. We tend to give them too much credit for being strategic and smart when in fact their weak and... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 13, 2006 9:40 AM
Electronic Voting and Paper Ballots
This story from the Salt Lake Tribune talks about the policy confision and questions surrounding recounts for electronic voting machines in Utah after last month's primary election. While there is some chaos right now, I'm confident that it's going... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 8, 2006 4:04 PM
No Hablo Espanol
Earlier this month Utah launched, with little fanfare, www.espanol.utah.gov, a Spanish-language companion to the state's Web site at www.utah.gov. The site contained 10 pages of information about taxes, health care, and so on in Spanish. A few days ago... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 14, 2006 9:55 AM
UTC Calls Hatch a Champion of Technology
I just got to the conference center in Edinburgh. The trip wasn't bad--I slept most of the way from Chicago. When I checked my email, I had several emails that people had forwarded to me pointing out an email... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 23, 2006 4:54 AM
eVoting Security Holes
I put a piece about Black Box Voting's report up at Between the Lines. The report found significant security problems. The investigation is a result of Bruce Funk's courageous action in letting independent security experts look at his Diebold... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 12, 2006 10:40 AM
Social Playground or Media Sandbox?
Thomas Barnett, who I interviewed on my Technometria podcast a while back, has an interesting perspective on how technology influences geopolitics. In a recent post, he claims that online trends will ensure that ten years from now, the Web... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 12, 2006 1:01 PM
Liberty and Federated Identity
When I wrote about Federated Identity Governance for InfoWorld, I spoke to 5 or 6 companies who were successfully federating identity and had been dealing with governance issues. Most of these were also members of the Liberty Aliance. A... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 1, 2006 12:41 PM
Meanwhile, the Real Attention Economy Chugs Along
This morning, I was thinking about people who read this blog and what I offer them that keeps them coming back. That led me into what I like to think of as the "real" attention economy--the one that's already... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 24, 2006 6:27 PM
It's Not the Fight We Wanted, But It's the Fight We Got
If you've never been in the military, you may not appreciate the level of professionalism and training represented in both the officer and enlisted ranks. Julian Barnes has a great piece in US News and World Report on how... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 21, 2006 9:30 AM
Derek Powazek on Community
Derek Powazek is talking about new communities on the Web. He says that the Web is less about companies createing "company" towns and more about people creating their own spaces. He uses the Technorati Top 100 bloggers as examples... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 7, 2006 5:24 PM
Bruce Sterling on the Internet of Things (ETech 2006)
The evening keynote (last night) was by Bruce Sterling on the Internet of Things. This was one of those talks that is impossible to blog. Even a word-for-word transcript wouldn't do it justice because Bruce's delivery is as much... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 7, 2006 10:31 AM
Britt Blaser on Dean Done Right
Britt Blaser's speaking at the Berkman Center tomorrow on Lessons from Burlington. This refers to the Dean campaign headquarters and Dean's use of Internet technology. Britt's been very busy trying to generalize those lessons for all kinds of political... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 6, 2006 2:58 PM
Flushing the 'Net Down the Tubes
Doc Searls has written a brilliant piece framing the battle for the 'Net at Linux Journal. The piece is long, but if you take the time to read just one essay on the 'Net and the politics surrounding it... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 16, 2005 3:46 PM
Rasiej Campaign Post-Mortem
Micah Sifry has written a post-mortem about the Andy Rasiej campaign for NYC Public Advocate. Some important lessons there for anyone using the Internet for leverage. Here were a few that hit home for me: We misjudged how much... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 2, 2005 9:37 AM
Roadblocks to Ubiquity
In a post about Dick Hardt's Identity 20 talk, Jon Udell makes an important statement: Even a tech-savvy person like me has a hard time envisioning, never mind comparing, the interaction scenarios proposed by various identity schemes including Sxip,... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 10, 2005 10:21 AM
Technology, Public Policy, and Governance
The Register had an article on Friday about Urquhart's challenge to Hatch that categorized Urquhart as a "file-sharing, Republican blogger." That's a typical headline stretch since the file-sharing bit comes from a quote inside the article about file sharing... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 12, 2005 8:41 AM
Announcing the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW2005)
There's been considerable conversation around identity on the Internet, or what some would call grassroots identity. Providing identity services between people, websites, and organizations that may or may not have any kind of formalized relationship is a different problem... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 1, 2005 5:35 AM
Google's Expanding Homepage
Google's personalized homepage with RSS feeds If you haven't been paying attention, you might have not have noticed Google's personalized homepage and you'd have to really be paying attention to have noticed that yesterday, they added the ability to... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 27, 2005 8:53 PM
Announcing Planet Utah
I'm pleased to announce Planet Utah, an aggregation of blogs about Utah Politics. You can subscribe to its RSS feed, import its OPML into your favorite feed reader, or just come by and read. If you would like your... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 26, 2005 11:03 AM
Challengers to Hatch
Sen. Orrin Hatch has made all kinds of enemies in the Tech community with his support for the DCMA and the INDUCE act. I've got a piece over at UtahPolitics.org on potential challengers to Hatch in the 2006 election.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 20, 2005 8:56 AM
McNealy Was Right
A recent post by Don Park about a girl who refused to clean up after her dog and was "outted" by a camera phone totting netizen shows that Scott McNealy may have been right when he said "You have... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 9, 2005 7:06 PM
Google Sitemaps
I just generated a Movabletype template to create a Google XML sitemap for Technometria and UtahPolitics.org. It was very simple, following the instructions from Niall Kennedy. The only thing I did differently was to use this URL to enter... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 7, 2005 11:36 AM
Server Moving
I'll be moving the server that hosts Technometria and UtahPolitics.org tomorrow morning between 8:30 and 10:00am MDT. Hopefully the downtime will be short.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 6, 2005 9:41 PM
Dynamic Range: A New Utah Blog
John Dougall, VP of Technology at WaveTronix and one of Utah's most technically astute legislators has a new blog called Dynamic Range. There are entries on politics, technology, and transportation--John's three favorite topics. If you've got an interest in... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 6, 2005 7:41 AM
FEC Rules May Apply to Bloggers
I was just interviewed by Laura Jones at KCPW on the recent news that the FEC may apply campaign finance laws to bloggers. If you don't take money from a campaign or a PAC, the rules wouldn't apply and... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 1, 2005 2:27 PM
A Program for Converting RSS to Email
The email that is sent to the mailing list on Technometria is generated automatically from the RSS feed for the "Newsletter" category on my blog. As I write my blog, I just properly categorize anything I want to be... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 12, 2005 4:42 PM
Choosing a Host That Isn't Toast
A recent Baseline Magazine article, Choosing a Host That Isn't Toast, talks up AT&T Web Hosting. The name confused me--they're not just talking about Web hosting, they're talking about data centers. If you read the article without any background,... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 26, 2005 7:39 AM
Tag Consensus
One of the problems with free form tags as a social categorizing mechanism is that different people will choose different tags for the same thing. Is the right tag for eGovernment e-government, egovernment, e-gov, egov, edemocracy, or what? The... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 18, 2005 10:58 AM
Technorati Has Tags
Dave Sifry's at it again with another cool way to look at the web. Technorati now features tags. Tags at technorati are the same concept as tags at Del.icio.us--informal categories that you make up on the fly. Technorati will... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 14, 2005 7:57 AM
What Its Like To...
CIO Magazine has a couple dozen stories that all start with What Its Like To... I enjoyed reading through them and hearing about other people's experience in the CIO seat. For example, Richard Clarke's description of what its like... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 6, 2005 3:53 PM
Mind Viruses
Thomas Barnett frequently uses IT terminology to discuss geopolitics, one of the things I love about him. In a recent post he says: As I said in PNM, the whole goal of enunciating a strategic vision like this, is... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 4, 2005 8:45 AM
A New Year and a New Blog
Yes, you're in the right place. I've decided to update the look of my blog and give it a name (Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog was too hard to refer to). I choose the name "technometria." Technometry is the "measure... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 1, 2005 2:10 PM
Omniture: On-Demand Web Analytics
I spent some time with Omniture this afternoon. I knew these guys pretty well when they were MyComputer.com. Omniture (nee' MyComputer.com) has always been in the ASP space (now called "on-demand applications") and they were one of the early... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 21, 2004 6:26 PM
Phil More Gang No. 1, A Podcast
Have you ever listened to the Gillmor Gang and wished you comment on something that was said? Me too. As I listened to the November 5th edition, just after the 2004 presidential election, I kept thinking of responses or... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 2, 2004 6:50 PM
Staying Involved
If you got involved in the election at any level, you might have gotten a feel for the excitement and passion that political discussion and activism brings. If you're candidate lost, you likely a little depressed. Even if your... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 5, 2004 7:39 AM
Technorati's Policial Happenings
Technorati has been working hard to extract political intelligence (insert bad oxymoron joke here) from blogs at politics.technorati.com. This is cool, but what stands out to me is how much more there is to do. For example, right now... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 31, 2004 9:47 PM
Responding to Utah's eVoting RFP
I joined with some other people to draft a response (PDF) to Utah's eVoting RFP. There are a number of problems with the RFP, including the fact that it does not require a voter verifiable paper audit trail and... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 21, 2004 6:51 AM
First eVoting Lawsuit by a Candidate
Linda Soubirous lost the March 2004 race for a seat on the Riverside County Board of Supervisors by 45 votes. She requested a recount and asked for 44 pieces of information pertaining to the recount, including the audit logs,... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 19, 2004 1:35 PM
The Pentagon's Messy Backoffice
The Pentagon has backoffice problems. Over the last decade, the Pentagon has spent $19B dollars in creating numerous systems to help manage accounting and logistics at the Dept. of Defense and things are still broken. Some outside analysts see... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 8, 2004 5:08 PM
Hosted Community Building Tools for Politics
Judith Meskill's Social Software Weblog points to I Stand For, a new service of Andrew Weinreich, the founder of Friendster. The idea is to provide hosted solutions for political causes to build community.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 23, 2004 9:28 PM
RSS Aggregator for UtahPolitics.org
I run a blog on Utah politics at UtahPolitics.org that has become quite popular here in Utah this political season. I'd love to add an RSS aggregator for other political blogs that cover Utah to the site. I found... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 18, 2004 9:32 PM
One More Academic Blogger
For the past 16 months, I've been living the life of the independent. Its something I've always wanted to do and it has been fun. Fortunately, I'm in a position that I can afford to do it--the pay can be... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 28, 2004 11:24 AM
Broadband Causes Obesity
In a c|net News article brought to my attention by Harold Carr's posting at UtahPolitics.org, Salt Lake City mayor Rocky Anderson is quoted as saying that giving people more broadband will make them fatter and just let them download... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 20, 2004 1:20 PM
UtahPolitics.org in the News
The Deseret News had a piece on UtahPolitics.org today. UtahPolitics.org is a multi-author blog I started last November to offer a place for people to comment on Utah politics. The IRV strawpoll and the virtual debate among gubernatorial (I... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 19, 2004 8:52 PM
Open Source Voting
Vote Here Technologies released the source code to their electronic voting system this week. Vote Here uses an interesting twist on the paper trail that allows each voter to verify on the Internet that their individual vote was correctly... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 8, 2004 7:18 AM
Grassroots Political Blogging
Last week I was elected chair of my precinct so I put together a blog to keep precinct members informed and for precinct officers and delegates to use for exchanging information and keeping up to date. We also set... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 30, 2004 8:05 AM
Step Forward and Be Identified!
"A name is now no longer a simple identifier; it is the key to a vast, cross-referenced system of public and private databases, which lay bare the most intimate features of an individual's life." Are you required to identify yourself?... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 23, 2004 2:28 PM
OSBC2004: Ray Lane on the Macro-Economic Impact of Open Source Software
Ray Lane, a general partner at Kleiner-Perkins is discussing the macro-economic impact of open source software. He talks about the parade of people who come into his office everyday who talk about proprietary software because its (their words) higher quality... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 17, 2004 9:08 AM