Here’s a few snippets of comments, emails and other communications I’ve had this week in response to specific posts or just the blog in general. Each one touches on why I love blogging and my readers and why this blog has come to mean so much to me. Venting, and finding out your not alone… [...]
Entries tagged as “government”
The week in review (or… why I blog and a thank you)
How Science Is Rediscovering “Open” And What It Means For Government
Pretty much everybody in government should read this fantastic New York Times article Sharing of Data Leads to Progress on Alzheimer’s. On one hand the article is a window into what has gone wrong with science – about how all to frequently a process that used to be competitive but open, and problem focused has [...]
The Government admits the voluntary Long Form is bunk
Yesterday, in response to a legal challenge from the Federation of Francophone and Acadian Communities of Canada Minister Clement announced the government would shift questions regarding the French language from the voluntary long form to the mandatory short form of the census. Specifically these questions would move: 1) Can this person speak English or French [...]
More evidence that StatsCan disagreed with Clement (aka Helping @kady out)
Over at the CBC the ever resourceful Kady O’Malley has posted documents from Statistics Canada surrounding the decision to make the long form of the census voluntary. She’s starting to notice some interesting bits, here’s two I saw that she might want to add to the list. First, there are two lines written by public [...]
On Governments and Intellectual Property (or why we move slowly)
David H. sent me this short and fantastic article from Wired magazine last week. The article discusses the travails of Mathew Burton, a former analyst and software programmer at the Department of Defense who spent years trying to get the software he wrote into the hands of those who desperately needed it. But alas, no [...]
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