Clearing the Cache: Oughta Be in Pictures
BY Nancy Scola | Wednesday, July 15 2009
- Gov photo projects seem to be all the rage. First there was USA.gov's Flickr experiment. Now the State Department's U.S. embassy in Freetown is holding a photo contest of America flags found around Sierra Leone -- with a cash prize.
- ProPublica's ChangeTracker captures that the White House drops mention of a Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board from its web site.
- Free Press is hiring a DC media director, and if you're into telecom policy, then this may well be the place to be in the next few years. The Genachowski FCC should prove exciting. You know, as far as telecom policy goes.
- Not the right fit? Well, NOI wants to help you get a job on the Hill, via a webinar hosted by two familiar folks who know the space: Tom Manatos and Rob Pierson.
- Some punk named Levy asks, is Google Voice bringing us a future of dumb pipe? Will the telecoms let it? (My Google Voice number is 86-SCOLA. How awesome is that?)
- Creeping towards interoperability between VA and DOD electronic health records, something Obama has marked as an uber-high priority. If they can't get this to work, it's a ding in the inevitability of EHRs elsewhere.
- EMS SMS -- first responders making use of the Twitter and the Facebook.
- And a new State Department staffer who asked Clinton for permission to use the free and open-source Firefox gets told it's an expense thing. A good hardee-har-har at a bureaucrat's expense, but be sure to check out this comment for context. State has some 55,000 or so employees around the world, so even small tweaks aren't nothing.