An NHS hospital boss criticised the new computerised medical records system today, saying it had cost his trust an extra £10m and meant fewer patients could be seen. Andrew Way, chief executive of Hampstead's Royal Free hospital, in north-west London, said his staff were "incredibly disappointed" w...

A New Zealand man has landed himself in a real-life version of Burn After Reading, the Coen brothers' film about two fitness centre employees who get their hands on a disc containing the memoirs of a CIA agent, with comic - and deadly - consequences. Chris Ogle inadvertently found 60 US military fil...

"Visit USA.gov for information about the parade, inaugural balls, tickets to the swearing-in, transportation, and more. YouÂ’ll also find resources......

"Visit USA.gov for information about the parade, inaugural balls, tickets to the swearing-in, transportation, and more. YouÂ’ll also find resources......

The stimulus plan President-Elect Barack Obama has recently described would help jump-start the economy at the same time it renews our country’s vital infrastructure. And the president-elect is serious about making smart investments. Here he is on Meet the Press last Sunday (emphasis mine): We...

It's been one week since the greatest campaign the Internet has ever seen turned into the promise of the first Internet-era government. Both the traditional media and the blogosphere are overflowing with suggestions for how President-elect Barack Obama can translate his campaign's social med...

How does the old saying go? One person’s spam is another person’s blogging fodder? Such was the case today when a colleague forwarded a house GOP “Internet Freedom Alert” to me. According to the alert, Nancy Pelosi and her wicked ilk mean to ban members of Congress from using...

Two years ago, I proposed (surely not originally), the "Legi-Wiki".  Now, with a much better name, we have OpenCongress. Almost, but not quite: we can't yet draft legislation collaboratively online, but we can keep much better track of it.   In general, I think Louis Brandei...

Here are some thoughts that might become a paper. Feedback would be much appreciated. Public choice theory can be summarized in four words: concentrated benefits, dispersed costs. Your share of the bill for the Bridge to Nowhere might be 5¢—much less than even the postage needed to write your...

As previously noted, the Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet, part of the Graduate School of Political Management of The George Washington University, is hosting the Politics Online Conference 2008 on March 4th and 5th at the Renaissance Washington DC Hotel. Here's a sweetner: I'll be s...