Feds Launch OpenID Pilot
It is no surprise that plenty of people have been saving up their big announcements for the Gov 2.0 Summit. The OpenID Foundation, for example, used the conference venue to announce that they will be collaborating with the U.S. General Services Administration to test OpenID at several federal agencies, including the National Institutes of Health. For more information, see:
- OpenID press release, 9 September 2009
- OpenID and Open Government home page
- OpenID in Government FAQ
- Open Identity for Open Government Explained, from Identity Woman blog
September 10: House Hearing on Digital Books
The House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on “Competition and Commerce in Digital Books” at 10 a.m. tomorrow, September 10. The hearing will be webcast; the link is on the committee’s hearings calendar page.
ALA has some information available on its site. See:
Library Associations submit testimony… and the ALA Google Book Settlement page.
Gov 2.0 Expo and the Apps for America 2 Challenge Winners
The Sunlight Foundation announced the winners of their “Apps for America 2: The Data.gov Challenge” at the O’Reilly/techweb Gov 2.0 Expo Showcase in DC yesterday. The web applications were to be built with data available from the U.S. Data.gov site. And the prizes go to…
First prize: DataMasher.org. Combine and compare government data at the state level.
Second prize: GovPulse. Making Federal Register access easier.
Third prize: ThisWeKnow.org. Find government info by zip code.
Prize for best data visualization: QuakeSpotter.org. Global view of earthquakes with links to quake-related tweets.
Get complete information from Sunlight’s press release.
The one-day Gov 2.0 Expo is over, and the two-day Gov 2.0 Summit (with bold face names) is in progress. They are tweeting up a storm over at the Hyatt, using the hashtag #gov2s.
[Update: They are using the #g2s tag, too.]
I will blog more later on how the Gov 2.0 Expo went.
Tracking Unemployment Statistics: The Movie
Actually, it is just a 2 min 30 sec video bringing the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to the little screen. Washington Post Federal Eye blogger Ed O’Keefe posted his video story Tracking Unemployment Statistics on September 4. It features footage of real BLS employees talking about how the stats are compiled for the monthly Employment Situation release. For action shots, the video captures real BLS employees (or extras?) walking between their office and the Union Station metro stop.
BLS has a less visual but much more detailed webpage on the topic, Monthly Employment Situation Report: Quick Guide to Methods and Measurement Issues.
Happy Labor Day, U.S.!
September 7, 2009 is Labor Day in the U.S., where it is celebrated by not laboring. It’s Friday noon on the East Coast, and already I see the drop-off in emails and tweets. Get the facts from:
Labor Day Facts for Features from the Census Bureau
Labor Day press packet from the Labor Department
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