Listen, Nicole:[Photo: PacificCoastNewsOnline.com]It's a nice attempt, really. But no matter how hard and how egregiously you try to misappropriate aspects of their native country's garb, no one is... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]...

After looking everywhere and which a way, I am at a loss. I am looking for a short story with a near future high tech anarchy as background-- something that resembles David Brin's concept of The Transparent Society , Utopian Version, where every body knows everybody else's business--as opposed to, s...

What I'm about to describe here sounds almost like a parody of suburb street-development-by-plumbers, but this is what's on the table tonight at the Board of Public Works Meeting: *LETTER FOR GREENDALE RELATIVE TO A JOINT APPLICATION FOR S. 51ST STREET – RAWSON AVENUE TO COLLEGE AVENUE FOR...

I think I’ve finally had enough time to absorb all of the people, projects, thoughts, and feelings I experienced while attending the Sunlight Foundation’s TransparencyCamp last weekend, but I still don’t know that I’ve found a good way to discuss them with you. Oddly, what ke...

Remember the drawdown O talked about and the "surge" he ordered into Afghanistan?Greyhawk finds that things may not be as they seem. The link is in the title but in short the Stryker Brigade diverted to Afghanistan had spent ten months in intensive Arabic language training in preparation for their t...

GoogleMap image uploaded with plasq's Skitch! We have a fairly serious transparency problem here in Franklin. The city website is fairly incomprehensible, and staffing shortages mean that it'll be a long time before resources can be devoted to making it easier for people to know what meeting...

Since Greg welcomed me aboard BHB last week, ideas have been racing through my head.  What would I write about first? CRM execution tactics? Too predictable. Skinned cats? I’ll leave that to my favorite cat skinner. Then it occurred to me last night:  why not dive right in with an example of...

The federal government must have funds from the stimulus bill (known as the Recovery Act, or by its acronym ARRA) allotted by March 19, 2009. That's 30 days after it was signed into law, and less than two weeks from......

Earlier this week I wrestled with a handful of social-media purists who could not/would not acknowledge my arguments on ghostwriting and blogging. If you missed it, just scroll down one post. Nothing I said or will ever say on this issue can change their minds. They’ve covered their ears, as w...

a posting from the Patti Network find out what else I'm writing. So Where is Your Accountability Harper? Remember back in 2006 when Stephen Harper ran on a platform of transparency and accountability in government? When the Liberals tried to paint him as having a hidden agenda to which he countered ...