Speaking For All Mankind » Pew Research http://blog.billbrantley.com Random notes on politics, government, science, and technology. Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:00:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Four Major Stories That Point Toward? http://blog.billbrantley.com/2010/03/01/four-major-stories-that-point-toward/ http://blog.billbrantley.com/2010/03/01/four-major-stories-that-point-toward/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:46:48 +0000 bill http://blog.billbrantley.com/?p=182 1)  WhiteHouse.gov goes Open Source (Drupal) – actually reported on10/25/2009 but the original story has been updated to include the contractors: Acquia and Phase2.  The contractors also had folks at the OpenGov workshop I attended.

2) U.S. Department of Defense to allow Social Networking on unclassified computers – Check out their Social Hub.

3) Pew Research Study shows we get our news through social networks – “The latest study from Pew Internet analyzes the news Americans are consuming and various different ways they find news. Based on a sample of 2,259 adults, the study reveals that three fourths of the people (75%) who find news online get it either forwarded through e-mail or posts on social networking sites, and half of them (52%) forward the news through those means.”

4) UK Newspaper, The Guardian, opens new API on political information – You don’t even have to register to access APIs that will feed election and political information into apps that you create.

So, governments are going open source and embracing social networking at the same time people’s news consumption shifts to online social networking applications.  Almost a perfect storm of open government.

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