Tweet I love data. When I find great sources of data I have to record it. Here is RAW and API data from the Federal Government. OpenSecrets Open Data It has: Campaign Finance – PAC and individual contributions to, and expenditures by, Candidates, PACs and Party Committees Lobbying – Clients, registrants (generally lobbying firms), lobbyists [...]
Tweet I found a much more colorful visual of where government spending goes. It is in the UK, but still very cool. They did a much better job visually displaying the data then I did on my Oregon or California State Budgets. Where Does My Money Go? Pretty cool visualizations of Government spending. I predict [...]
Tweet Someone needs to create an open source version of data.gov. Every city, county and state municipalities need a copy. There needs to be a well written, secure and standards based open source version available. It would be setup identical with: RAW Data Catalog with XML, CSV, KML, etc data files Tool Catalog or Marketplace [...]
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Tweet I was doing my taxes the other day. I thought to myself. Where does all my tax money go. For quite a while I thought how nice it would be to be able to tell the government how to spend my money. I would like a multiple choice form showing how I want it [...]
Tweet I am going through the 2009-2011 Governor’s Recommended Budget for Oregon. I can get at some pretty good PDF docuemtns with information on budget. Good data in there. Problem is I can’t get it in any digestable format. XML? CSV? Excel? JSON? Someday all city, state and federal governments will have to publish all [...]
Tweet The White House recently announced the Development 2.0 Challenge, a Tech Competition for the Developing World. They are attempting to crowd-source international development initiatives and get away from programs being designed by experts and government officials without sufficient input from citizens, social entrepreneurs, or people. They are looking for people from around the world to [...]
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Tweet I am excited about the recent launch of Data.gov. I am very passionate about what API and open data access can do for companies and belive the same is true about Government. Now that the site is launched….we need some data. Doesn’t look like much is available quite yet. I queried all categories and [...]
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Tweet I am seeing more and more data available at the Recovery.org web site. The site provides some great overview of money distributed, but it takes forever to really dive into specific aspects of where the money is being spent at the local, state or federal level. What I would like to see is on [...]
Tweet I have seen a lot of press about how the stimulus money is being spend and tracked. I have come across many ideas for how this should be tracked. I have gone through all 50 states recovery web sites as well as many of the federal agency web sites. There is definitely no rhyme [...]
Tweet I am a big advocate for educating politicians and our leaders on cloud computing and what it can do to save money and open up our government for more involvement by the public at large. I am amazed at how many leaders are already in the know about cloud computing. I was just reading [...]
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Tweet I have been spending time researching different aspects of cloud computing and opportunities out there to evangelize about it. I was researching Recovery money going to the National Science Foundation. As of today it isn’t flowing quite yet. Then I got curious of other project funding opportunities there are with the National Science Foundation. [...]
Tweet Lately I am very interested in the Government usage of social media and cloud computing (SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS) . I have been reading and doing a lot of research in this area lately. I came across great post on programmableweb today called An Online Dialogue to Shapre Recovery.gov. Lots of great information, and [...]
Tweet I have talked before about data centers supporting the cloud and green data center construction strategies. I have heard comments on the amount of data center infrastructure we have is adequate for the next round of cloud growth. I tend to be an optimist, but I think the next round of cloud adoption is [...]
Tweet I am conducting my cloud computing research and specifically focusing on: United States Federal Government Education, Adoption, and Usage of Cloud Computing United States State Government Education, Adoption, and Usage of Cloud Computing United States University Education, Adoption, and Usage of Cloud Computing Definition and Understanding of Cloud Computing Players There is a lot [...]
Tweet A recent post called, How Cloud Computing is transforming global business really spoke to me. It was a very clear list of important factors on how Cloud Computing is transforming business. I would like to take the time and analyze each point in the post: Government adoption: The federal government should become an early [...]
Tweet I have been reading up on data center operations lately and what goes into building a data center that a cloud / virtualization methodology could be deployed to provide various public or private cloud computing. I come across many great studies on building Green Data Centers, I was reading this one today: Cloud Computing: [...]
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Tweet I am really blown away by some of the opportunities for cloud computing growth and adoption within the federal goverment right now. With all the recovery money out there, there is a lot of of projects that just need a little cloud perspective. I am seeing multiple database, server infrastructure, networking and application projects [...]
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Tweet I am spending some time looking through individual state recovery web sites off the Federal Government Recovery web site at: http://www.recovery.gov/?q=content/state-recovery-page. I am interested in where this money is going and how its being used. Its funny, every state talks about accountability and transparency (even uses those words). Someone ought to tell them that [...]
Tweet As we are all jumping on the Cloud Computing bandwagon we are considering the security implications of our decision to move our entire companies operations into the cloud. Where exactly is my data center stored? Where are the cloud data centers? What happens when the big cloud providers like IBM, Amazon, Microsoft, and Sun [...]
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Tweet I was just reading a great post on O’reilly Radar called The Future of Our Cities: Open, Crowdsourced, and Participatory, and it got my brain flowing in a direction I have already been thinking about. I am really obsessed with Cloud Computing right now and the power it puts in my hand as the [...]
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