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Comment on - I-Everything, Lawyers, Watson and Plumbers by No More Car Collisions or Speeding Tickets | the Chief Seattle Geek blog

No More Car Collisions or Speeding Tickets | the Chief Seattle Geek blog — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 05:29:23 +0000

[...] and courts would be freed (or put out of a job) litigating traffic accidents and court cases (see my blog post here explaining why most lawyers will be become history [...]

Comment on - Are Government CIOs Irrelevant? by Schrier

Schrier — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 01:25:12 +0000

Great comment, Shawn and a perfect scenario – the CDO and CIO – to see how this all plays out. Thanks.

Comment on - Are Government CIOs Irrelevant? by Shawn

Shawn — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:24:29 +0000

Spot on. Ironically, this movement has a lot of potential to start from the bottom and move up. Small municipalities that can’t (or can barely) afford this infrastructure (or don’t even have CIOs) should have an advantage in adopting a lot of innovation, not only because of the smaller numbers of staff they would have to migrate, but because of reduced layers of bureaucracy allow for potentially easier “change management” projects. No question that the job of Chief Digital/Innovation/Process Improvement Officer will be way more fun than CIO, since the CIO will still be stuck magnetizing door entry cards while the real innovation is happening however/wherever data is being moved/stored. Here in Rhode Island , we just hired our first CDO, reporting to the CIO http://woonsocket.patch.com/articles/woonsocket-s-thom-guertin-is-ri-s-first-chief-digital-officer and I wonder how long it will take for the former to outshine the latter in the eyes of leadership.

Comment on - Kurmudgeons and Kids by - Are Government CIOs Irrelevant? | the Chief Seattle Geek blog

- Are Government CIOs Irrelevant? | the Chief Seattle Geek blog — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 04:45:55 +0000

[...] blogged about this before, especially when Seattle elected a new Mayor, Mike McGinn, in 2009, and he and his staff brought [...]

Comment on - Will we give up our Privacy to keep our Guns? by Phil

Phil — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 16:11:21 +0000

The warrantless surveillance performed by the United States government is disgusting. Americans’ representatives have failed us.

Bill wrote, “Clearly anyone who would brutally kill 20 first-graders – or murder a dozen theater-goers in Aurora – is mentally ill.”

One might say the same of people who accept payment to pilot American assassination drones, shielded by civilians in nondescript office buildings. Unlike those children murdered in Newton, the nearly 200 Pakistani children killed by our military monsters didn’t receive two weeks of wall-to-wall news coverage. The easiest murders to avoid are those which are committed by government policy.

Comment on - A Cop Killer and Broadband by Phil M.

Phil M. — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 21:07:36 +0000

Bill never specified what he disagreed with. I stand by my assertions about the capabilities of SPD’s Coban DICVS equipment.

Meanwhile, KOMO-TV are suiing the City of Seattle over police-video-related Public Records Act violations on the part of Seattle Police Department: http://www.komonews.com/news/local/130138973.html

Comment on - Higher Tech Policing by Dave Callahan

Dave Callahan — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 11:50:50 +0000

Hi Phil:
Can you point me in the direction of some high speed networking practices already in use in public safety (police or fire) … such as the video transmission.

Comment on - The Upcoming White House Datapalooza by skybulletin

skybulletin — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:20:19 +0000

Reblogged this on SKY Bulletin.

Comment on - CIO As City Cheerleader by Why CIOs must embrace social media users - CIO Symmetry

Why CIOs must embrace social media users - CIO Symmetry — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 16:22:22 +0000

[...] CIO need to be the “cheerleader” of the community, according to the city of Seattle’s social CTO Bill [...]

Comment on - A Public-Private Radio Network? by Schrier

Schrier — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 04:36:52 +0000

Mike: I’ll send you an email on this. Others who want to know, please email me. bill at schrier dot org.