Jim Horton points to an interesting article about the progres of state and federal government agencies in making information more easily accessible online.
A brief excerpt:
West and his team of researchers conducted a detailed analysis of
1,620 state and federal government Web sites. Among the report’s
findings:• 73 percent of state and federal sites have services that are “fully executable” online, up from 56 percent last year.
With the start of the new year, Conversations resumes with a slate of interesting guests and topics already scheduled.
Duncan Riley shares a statistic that he came across that should serve as a reminder to those of us living inside the technology bubble: just 5 million Americans use mobile Internet services. Technorati tags: mobile Internet
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I admit I never even think about AOL as a player in online news search. But I guess I should. MarketingVox reports: AOL News has sprinted into a leading position in online news search, joining Yahoo News, Google News and Topix.net, writes SearchEngineWatch, citing July Nielsen/NetRatings data, according to which AOL News has a unique…
The LA Times’ Ron Brownstein offers his view of the Internet as a possible launching pad for a national candidacy: The Internet could allow an independent candidate to more easily identify an audience and financial base, just as it has allowed blogs like the liberal Daily Kos or conservative InstaPundit to find a community of…
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