GOV IT
Strategic IT for Government
Saturday, September 13, 2003

News and Notes for Sept. 12th.

Here are a couple of good eGov sites that I recently discovered:

The Utah Technology Commission will be discussing how other states have evaluated their IT processes and infrastructure for reorganization, in particular Virginia.  I guess that's a compliment on Virginia's efforts to centralize their IT operations.  They have a portfolio management system in place to review and prioritize projects.  Here is a public view of the projects currently in that portfolio.  The Utah Technology Industry Council now has its own space on the web.

Governor Leavitt's EPA confirmation hearing is now scheduled for next Thursday at 9:00 am Eastern time.  Fox News is calling Hillary Clinton's efforts to block the nomination a smokescreen.

The Utah Board of Regents has established its building priorities for the 2005 budget.  They will be presented today to the State Building Board (which has a new website).  Governor Leavitt continues to be excited about the Western Governors University which is part of a distance learning demonstration project coordinated by the Dept. of Education.

States involved in the Microsoft antitrust settlement have now set up a site where you can complain about any perceived violations of the final judgement.

By the way, here is the RSS feed to news items that appear on Utah.gov so that you can read them in your aggregator, along with a link to the headlines page.

[David Fletcher: Utah Government]
3:47:48 PM    

Circulating Digital Files in Libraries.

The other day, I asked if anyone really doubted that publishers would love to lock libraries out of circulating digital files. JD, Walt, and Carol left <A href="javascript:void(0)">comments to that post asking for specific examples of "library files now being circulated that might one day be in jeopardy." My answer....

[The Shifted Librarian]
3:46:40 PM    

Google Search Bar a Must Have

If you are as annoyed as I am with the popups, that are the bane of any Internet user. Then the Google search bar is a must have for your computer!

Just do a google search for google search bar and install!!!It comes with a built in popupadblocker!!!!

 


12:28:56 PM    

California bill encourages data protection. What happens when a quarter-million California state employees get mad? Bills get passed. [InfoWorld: Top News]
12:13:30 PM    

DBF Viewer 2000 - Powerful and easy-to-use DBF Viewer and Editor. Powerful tool for viewing and editing DBF databases (Clipper, dBase, Foxpro, Delphi,Visual Foxpro, Visual DBase, DB2K...). [New Entries at Datamation Product Watch]
12:07:32 PM    

Filter For Illegal P2P File Transfers [Content Wire - Home - Fresh Picks]
12:05:00 PM    

Keynote Plays Ball with PowerPoint. Apple's Keynote is the first major-company presentation software in years to step up to bat against ruling giant Microsoft PowerPoint. Ian Darwin provides a detailed comparison of the two presentation heavyweights. [O'Reilly Network Articles]
11:57:26 AM    

Zeepe 7 was released today. They say it's no longer necessary to deploy "a browser on every desktop" for your Windows users to work with web applications if you use Zeepe. Gotta check it out and they'll be at the PDC.

[Robert Scoble: Scobleizer Weblog]
11:52:33 AM    

Hey, watch this page for a fun "Red vs Blue" video coming later today. Right now you'll get 404 error page, but it's hillarious. Something fun for your Friday. You .NET types should watch this.

Oh, and while I'm at it, one of the coolest apps I've seen in a long time is Skype. P2P telephone. I called my General Manager, Vic Gundotra, and the audio quality was better than our telephones. No kidding!

[Robert Scoble: Scobleizer Weblog]
11:51:33 AM    





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