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FCC seeking feedback on its newish site: http://beta.FCC.gov. Leading edge federal webwork? Too cool by half? I, for one, admire it.#Gov20
Recent OMB Plain Writing Guidance has a readability score of 29.2 [of 100] and grade level of 13.2. Evidence of why it's needed, I suppose.
Fed web launch today: www.saferproducts.gov. 15-day [!] delay between reporting an unsafe product and its showing up in public database#gov2
Did you know that .ly link shorterners are routed through Libya? Gov 2.0ers take note. See http://www.silberberginnovations.com/silberb...
Considering exchanging my new LG Ally smartphone for Motorola Droid X. Ally screen too small. Droid too big for pocket? Advice?
"Plain language" is now federal law. Here is the utterly unreadable text: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin.... [Laws and regs are exempted. Ahem.]
Check out the crispy-clean, dynamic redesign of FBI.gov. Most Wanted iPhone app is cool, but I like the Predators & Missing Persons widget
Plain language in government: Not just a rarity, but it's [almost] the law! http://www.opencongress.org/bill...
Healthcare.gov has joined the Facebook universe at http://www.facebook.com/Healthc.... Like it? Say so! Don't? Say so!
Check out Federal Register "2.0" beta--nice refresh for a hoary old institution, with some socmed twists: federalregister.gov #gov20 #open
RT @HealthCareGov: Check out CuidadodeSalud.Gov, the first of its kind Spanish-language website connecting consumers with coverage http://www.cuidadodesalud.gov/enes...
I wonder why all federal agencies aren't signed up to use go.usa.gov, the feds' 'official' url shortener, for linking to fed URLs
Brilliant new gov health app from Nat Lib Medicine--Pillbox visual med identifier http://pillbox.nlm.nih.gov/
how I spent my summer: www.healthcare.gov. Launched today. Bang on it and let me know!
Took federal oath of office in new fed job, promising to defend Constitution "against all enemies, foreign and domestic." I'm on the case...
You know this means you have to go after Glen Beck now, Craig. - David Rothman (☤)
Jakob Nielsen's withering critique of early iPad usability http://www.useit.com/alertbo...
RT @mashable Hugo Chavez Hires 200 People to Manage His Twitter Account.. http://mashable.com/2010...
O'Reilly weekly round-up on Gov 2.0: http://radar.oreilly.com/2010... [via @gwynnek]
I've decided it's time to become a Tom Waits completist. With one-click purchase at iTunes, this will be dangerous.
Signed off my USDA job today; hit "zero in-box" before leaving. Monday: to Health & Human Services, to work on health care reform website
RT @USDAFoodSafety: Tours of #fsmobile are 10-12 min. First tour just began. Come see for yourself, across from Air/Space museum #foodsafety
At launch of #foodsafety educational mobile vehicle on National Mall. 40 ft. Of bacterial fun! Part of Pub Svc Recog Week. #fsmobile
With 7 Tweets in 11 minutes this a.m., the otherwise excellent Oil_Spill_2010 is a social media [ahem] gusher.
RT @SocialBttrfly RT @jacquebrown: Wonderful how-to video on Plain Language for gov't websites: http://www.howcast.com/videos...
Gerald Casale of Devo spkr at 40th anniv. of May 4 1970 Kent State shootings [my alma]. How those events led to Devo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
For first-rate, fast-turn Federal web/soc med response to nat'l disaster, including EPA Administrator Tweeting, see http://www.epa.gov
RT @gwynnek Newspapers yeterday's news, literally. WaPo front page story today on seeking Times Square bomber, since captured.
RT @GovNewMedia Linking to .gov content on #socmed channels? Use http://go.usa.gov/ to shorten URLs and show it's a trusted link! #gov20
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