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Friday, April 28, 2006
Net Neutrality Suffers a Blow
By:
S. James Willis
The House Committee on Energy & Commerce has sided with the telcos and rejected legislation that would prevent a multi-tiered internet. There's still some hope that the Senate will be swayed by intelligent discourse instead of the well-heeled telco lobbyists. BusinessWeek has a good overview of the...
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Friday, March 17, 2006
Open Source Tax Credit
By:
S. James Willis
Thought-provoking piece from the Center for American Progress that was forwarded to me by a colleague. It's a proposal for a tax credit of 20% for open source developers. Read more here.
Economist Article on Open Source
By:
S. James Willis
Andy Stein from Newport News forwarded an interesting article around to the GOCC listserve. The full article is here. Andy's commentary on the piece is interesting. Hopefully he'll post it here.
Monday, October 31, 2005
Google gets behind Open Office
By:
S. James Willis
"We want to hire a couple of folks to help make OpenOffice better," Chris DiBona, manager for open-source programs at Google, told news.com, the industry website.
Article here.
Wednesday, October 5, 2005
What Is Web 2.0
By:
S. James Willis
Government agencies, with their directories full of rotting, static HTML docs, are ripe to skip right to the front of the class in the move to Web 2.0. Here's a must-read article from Tim O'Reilly.
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Feds jump into podcasting
By:
S. James Willis
FirstGov.gov has an index of Fed Government Podcasts. Anyone know of any state/local government podcasts?
Monday, September 26, 2005
FCW article on popular open source products
By:
S. James Willis
Peter Quinn (CIO, MA) and I are quoted in this piece from Federal Computer Week.
Wednesday, August 31, 2005
ETRM v3.5
Given the GOCC community's interest in open standards and open code in government, Massachusetts would like to receive comments from GOCC participants on the latest public review draft of its Enterprise Technical Reference Model that addresses Data Formats.After receiving comments from the public regarding our proposed Open Formats standards earlier this year we have had a series of discussions with industry representatives and experts about our future direction. These discussions... Continue Reading
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