I have had a pretty amazing two weeks. On December 8th, my wife gave birth to our daughter, Rose, and ever since we have all been home together getting to know our new family. I’m lucky to have a job with a leave policy that has allowed me to take this time without too much […]
I’m taking a thought-provoking class at the USDA grad school called “Information Architecture and the User Experience.” We meet on Wednesday nights and talk, basically, about how information is organized. Everyone has had experiences where we go to a website and after a few minutes of clicking around in search of whatever brought us there […]
As part of my work, I helped develop the following animation depicting changes to the global carbon cycle over time. This accompanied a GAO technical assessment on geoengineering — research and techniques focused on altering the Earth’s climate to help alleviate the effects of global climate change. I have embedded the video version below; the […]
I love this exchange between President Obama and Univision host Jorge Ramos about whether or not he has his own computer. This is a real generational indicator — you think it’s possible I don’t have a computer? — not to mention a funny back-and-forth.
I’ve attended a few conferences in my relatively short career so far, and while some have been more useful than others, candidly, none has really struck me as having been a more productive use of my time than being at my desk. That is, until the 2011 Government Web and New Media Conference, which took […]
UPDATE: Discussion around this post is happening over at Govloop. Facebook recently unveiled its new format for Pages. Now, each organization or business presence must take the form of a Page, which is designed to look and operate much like a personal Facebook account, and which — a crucial point — must be linked to […]
This speech from Carl Malamud describes the motivations and trajectory of the Government 2.0 movement.