Happy Labor Day, and thank you, organized labor! Benjamin Strong: Federal Employee Internet Bill of Rights Irish Times: Innovation in the city Peter Klein: Analyzing the Wikileaks Data Jenifer Levini: Easier living through government transparency Adriel Hampton: How To – Write a News Analysis of Political Use of Twitter and Other Social Media Gov 2.0

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© Creative Commons adriel [at] adrielhampton.com September 5, 2010 One Saturday, I noticed that my pal Nick Charney was getting a lot of buzz on Twitter while speaking at a big conference. In addition to his fearless innovation, Charney is well-known for his hairstyle, long bangs with a flip. I decided to have a little

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BBQ reading: Alex Howard: State CIOs rank cloud computing, green IT and social media as top emerging techMark Malseed and Lisa Diane: The Hatch Act and Social Media – 6 Plain Language AnswersJosh van Tonder: Interviews with Open Government Innovators (video)Economist: The future of the internet: A virtual counter-revolutionTed Schadler: IT in the Age of

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Going in circles, or a revolution? In Texas, a Small Town Hopes for a Gov 2.0 Makeover MiracleGadi Ben-Yehuda: Meeting Halfway – Becoming Citizen 2.0Christa Miller: First-ever police-on-Twitter reportAlex Howard: How Social Data Built a Better Health Care AppRichard Fahey: Promoting Innovations through Prize and Challenge ProgramsAdriel Hampton: San Francisco’s Open Data Efforts on Display

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San Francisco’s aggressive open data efforts were on display this week, as civic and technology leaders took the stage at sf.govfresh, an event highlighting technology innovation in City government. City CIO Chris Vein (who also was recently interviewed by ideation solutions firm BrightIdea) and Department of Technology innovations manager Jay Nath explained how the City

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Oh, it gets weirder … IPAC (via Mike Kujawski): Social Media and Public Sector Policy Dilemmas Jena McGregor: The lessons government must learn from the corporate workplaceWilliam Gibson: Google’s EarthAdrianne Jeffries: The Rise of the Anti-FacebooksSteve Ressler: FourSquare and Seven Months from Now – Would Lincoln Be on LinkedIn?John Moore: The Lab interviews Adriel Hampton

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The power of the commons: Don Reisinger: NASA brings historical photos to Flickr CommonsAlex Howard: Collaborative innovation in open gov’t – is there an app for that?Jennifer Van Grove: How CEOs Will Use Social Media in the Future Stan Czerwinski: GAO must plan for future of local governmentsChristine Pierpoint: The Gov 2.0 ConundrumNigel Fenwick: Do

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Start your Monday off knowing more: Cory Doctrow: 10 Rules for Radicals: Lessons from rogue archivist Carl Malamud (video)Conrad Quilty-Harper: 10 ways data is changing how we liveAlex Howard: Open Government in California – Connecting Citizens to eServices with Social Media and On Language – Putting Government 2.0 in Context Andrea DiMaio: O’Reilly, Open Government

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Keep taking those steps forward: John Foley: A Disconnect in Federal IT StrategyAndrew Wilson: Getting Serious About Bringing Together Social Media Research and PracticeBeth Lovett: Chris Vein, San Francisco’s CIO, on sf.govfreshCOAT: Report Finds Five State Benefits’ Web Sites Inaccessible to People with DisabilitiesAlex Howard: Tracking the signal of emerging technologies Josh Richman: Whitman and

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Yes, I want you to think about this stuff during the weekend: Marshall Kirkpatrick: Why Aren’t More People Excited About Government Data Stories?Gadi Ben-Yehuda: Can You Hear Me Now?Allan Holmes: Turning on to Social NetworkingWayne Moses Burke: OpenGov End GoalsAlex Howard: Applying the lessons of Enterprise 2.0 to Government 2.0Dannielle Blumenthal: 10 Ways to Build

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