What I Want in the IT Dashboard And speaking of Vivek Kundra's new federal IT spending dashboard, Matthew Burton writes that it's astonishing how quickly Kundra's office -- a government one, no less -- put together something so polished. The dashboard provides data on the development and budget statuses of thousands of government IT contracts, allowing the public to find out where their tax dollars are going. But something is still missing from the dashboard: while it will create better government IT management, it won't necessarily lead to better government IT tools...
"Launching in Beta" -- A Look at PdF '09 Day Two By mid-morning, it was already a rather remarkable second day of Personal Democracy Forum 2009 in New York City. And an astonishing 15,000 PdF-tagged tweets flowed in the last day and a half, coming from more than 2,700 people (which, interestingly, is far more people than the number of folks physically present here in the Jazz at Lincoln Center space). You can dive into the full Twitter stream if you dare; or we'll parse them out for you by individual session, including conversations about innovating from within government featuring the White House's Vivek Kundra, Macon Phillips and Beth Noveck; Michael Wesch on YouTube culture and authenticity; Todd Herman on "tak[ing] the lid off" of the Republican Party; and more. There's also longer coverage from the Wall Street Journal's Marisa Taylor on the "battle over broadband," live blogging of the morning's sessions compiled by Write Like She Talks' Jill Zimon, and much, much more...