I was on the Agenda with Steve Paikin last Friday discussing transparency in government along with Maryantonett Flumian, a professor of public and international affairs at the University of Ottawa, Leslie Harris, president of the Center for Democracy and Technology, and Globe and Mail columnist Math...

Who is the ‘typical’ Web 2.0 user? Lincoln Spector provides PCWorld readers a look into Netpop Research’s Media Shift to Social 2009 study. According to Lincoln, the study found Web 2.0 users “tend to be youngish, outside the middle class, and equally likely to be men or women. Unsurprisingl...

It’s only a matter of time before Tim O’Reilly tells the world that Web 2.0 Expo is going to be hosted in Washington, D.C. I mean, I don’t know anything for a fact, but all the sex appeal of Web 2.0 is descending on Washington. I certainly appreciate the fact that the Silicon Valle...

As many of you know, I’ve spent the better part of the last three months looking for sustainable employment. Historically (in the past two years), I have focused on technology startups outside of my geographical region, but, as time has gone on I have seen increasing value in planting roots wi...

The government is not much different from any other large enterprise. It is so big, and so old, that sometimes things are done in ways that can appear silly. Anyone who’s ever worked for a company with more than a couple hundred people in it should be able to relate to this. Processes and infr...

We came, we saw, we ate slightly frightening amounts of Pizza Boli. Transparency Camp '09 happened in Washington DC this weekend. At any given moment, you could step out in the hallway of GW's Media and Public Affairs Building and see a Library of Congress web dude chatting up an advocate for persis...

Today, Waggener Edstrom Worldwide is releasing a white paper on digital healthcare titled, “Healthcare Communications in the Digital World: Mitigating the Risks in a Highly Regulated Environment.� In conjunction with the paper, I will be moderating a live panel discussion this morning, Tuesday, ...

Guest Author: Peter Corbett - CEO of iStrategyLabs, a DC based digital agency, and technology community organizer focused on building a stronger start up ecology in the capital region. If JFK were alive today and happened to be a tech-geek like me he might have said, “Ask not what your country...

Another one, that is. Vice President Joe Biden's economist-in-chief Jared Bernstein announced in a post on the White House blog that he's got his own blog in the works: the "Middle Class Task Force Blog," housed at the new AStrongMiddleClass.gov. Bernstein's site joins Recovery.gov and Fin...

Recent events have got me thinking about regulation and just how strained and ineffectual our current systems have become. It’s not just the global financial crisis, although this alone illustrates what can happen when both markets and regulators fail. Issues as diverse as climate change, emerging...