The week witnessed one of the most dramatic government information technology failures ever, with an outage that paralyzed twenty six state government services for days in Virginia.

I could never figure out why some people dread going to conferences. It is always so fast paced, with a ton of people you want to meet, and happy hour every night.

As the reports of Hurricane Earl's strength get less serious (thank goodness!), we can all breathe a sigh of relief and start to have some fun with it.

San Francisco's aggressive open data efforts were on display this week, as civic and technology leaders took the stage at sf.govfresh

Alright so first off let me outline the premise of this new blog series.