Author of machiavelli.net, proud father of three, interested in shaping network society. Welcome to my blog.Category Archives for Blog
The Power of WordPress
I am starting to understand, how people felt, when they first were confronted with the Model T, the word processor, desktop publishing, or the world-wide-web as I am starting to look under the hood of my blogging software. At the … Continue reading
The Vocabulary of Open Government
Our understanding of open government and transparency is slowly becoming more sophisticated. And whoever learns first, will have an advantage, so take Ed Felten’s latest advice by heart: Outreach is not transparency. Here’s the difference: outreach means government telling us … Continue reading
A New Kind of Search
No matter the merits of the announcement, the argument is sufficiently interesting to be re-stated. Stephan Wolfram of Mathematica fame has just announced another contender to how we organize human knowledge. His approach is based on his thinking in A … Continue reading
Ed Felten’s Invisible Hand
…just in case you have not yet read it, but are interested in the relationship between transparency, technology, and public policy do read Government Data and the Invisible Hand by Ed Felten and friends (Yale Journal of Law & Technology, … Continue reading
Vivek Kundra does no Evil
Vivek Kundra, the new CIO (not CTO) of the Obama adminstration is a big fan of SaaS (Software as a Service), Web 2.0, etc. He is famous for having moved the DC Government to Gmail. Maybe it is time to … Continue reading
I report, you report, CNN reports
watching CNN in my hotel rooms in Mexico and at airports worldwide, I was confronted again and again with I-Report, a website for user generated reporting where the ultimate price is being presented on CNN. It took 9 years since … Continue reading
A Divine Comedy
I am sitting in Atlanta’s Airport on my way to Cancun, for an infrastructure/network industries event, coming from the three most amazing days of skiing in Chamonix (Max learned to ski and Helena became a pro) and am in technological … Continue reading
Search, Discovery, and Mining the Global Thought Stream (Real-Time Mindreading)
For the longest time, there has been a debate, about what is the next big challenge on the way to “augmented reality” after search. Logically, it should be discovery, but somehow sites like Stumbleupon have not hit the main stream. … Continue reading
Open Government and the TPC Framework
About 10 days ago, Barak Obama published the following memo. It is a must-read. His TPC Framework (transparency, participation, collaboration) reminds us that the three need to play together if we want to make networked governance work. MEMORANDUM FOR THE … Continue reading
Read-Write-Government
In 2009, governmental agencies I am working with are waking up to the power of collaborative public policy making. In Austria, the U.S., Mexico, and Colombia, officials are calling back and actually thinking about implementing specific projects. The sophistication of … Continue reading
