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  • 7 Words That Must Die in 2010

    7 Words That Must Die in 2010

    Another year gone and, with it, another decade in the books. 10 years ago today, we all were frantically wondering what the hell was going to happen when the digital apocalypse descended on us in a thing we all called the Y2K bug. The natural disaster that could have been was the first global digital…

  • The Aaron Brazell Train Keeps Rolling

    This post is quick and dirty. Sort of a braindump of sorts. I just want to get it out there as I’m coming in to land with the WordPress Bible and doing a delicate dance of travel, and final deadlines. I’m sitting in Orlando International Airport and processing a lot of thoughts. Saturday, I gave…

  • Ethical Questions over Apps.gov

    It’s been no secret since the Obama administration took office, that a key technological interest for the administrations tech policy would involve Cloud-based, Software as a Service (SaaS) initiatives. To that end, contractors and providers have been jockeying to provide cloud service to the federal government. One of these contractors, notable for their size and…

  • A Tale of Two Cities: How DC and San Francisco Are Handling Citywide 311

    Without a doubt, I am a data whore. I love raw data. I love APIs. I love finding interesting ways to mashup data. With the new found craze in government for openness, led in no small part from the Federal level and work endorsed by the Obama Administration to work pushed forward by Sunlight Labs,…

  • Crossing Over Technology With Government

    In recent months, I’ve made a small fuss over the so called Government 2.0 experts descending on Washington expecting to change the way of life in government. Of course, I’ve been also called out for not providing actual solutions. Probably rightly so, but understand that I don’t work in the government space. I am simply…

  • New York Times Makes Massive Leap in Bringing Congressional Data to the Web

    For all the talk in DC about transparency in government, that seemed (at least in my sense) to really come to the forefront of everyone’s attention with the House Rules on social media use issue last July, then escalated with the Senate, the bailouts and finally the election of one of the most social media…

  • Transparency and Handling

    Transparency happens to be the number one search term for this blog. Don’t ask me how it happened. I’ll simply say that I talk about honesty and transparency quite a bit. The reason is that it is the cornerstone for business and brand. Today at the Interact 2008 conference, AOL founder Ted Leonsis dropped a…

  • Contrived Transparency

    There is way too much talk about transparency going around. Seriously. I’m guilty. Apparently, 40,292 other people are also guilty. Transparency is one of those buzzwords people like to throw around to demonstrate that they’re savvy in the business of social media. If we have a blog, says one marketing strategist at XYZ company, we’ll…

  • Lessons in Brand Management from Barack Obama

    Note: This is not a political post, nor is it a political endorsement. Wednesday morning. Just about twenty-four hours have passed since Barack Obama addressed the nation on the issue of race and his relationship to firebrand pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. If you’re American, you’ve probably heard the speech by now, or at least heard…

  • Transparency is a Good Trait to Have for a Startup

    Something happened last night that was very, very funny. A number of people showed up at the unofficial PRE MashMeet party. Among those were myself and Ann Bernard of WhyGoSolo who was having a blast taking me to task for yesterday’s post as well as informing me that I didn’t have room to talk about…