Index-to-Posts

This page is an index to all the blog entries for Bill Schrier on this site.

2017

• 19 June – 1,945 Days and a Miracle Occurs – FirstNet publishes State Plans
• 13 June – First Responder Field, Home of the Mariners – lets name the ball park in their honor.
• 18 April – If it is Always Day 1 at Amazon, It is Day 10 in Government
• 20 March – Nostalgia of the 2040s – what cool stuff of 2017 will be wistful nostalgia?
• 19 February – Is 2017 the year for Big Change in Civic Tech? No.
• 31 January – Can Government CIOs avoid Politics?
• 12 January – When Alexa Calls 911 …
• 8 January – Ten Years after the iPhone, Why don’t we give Cops and Firefighters Smart Phones?

2016

• 10 November – Get Over It Already:  Donald Trump is President, there is common ground
• 24 July – Why I’m Joining FirstNet
• 10 July – The Dallas Divide: A Problem Technology and FirstNet can’t Fix
• 8 July – A Tough Day in Dallas and Seattle
• 7 June – Why Would Anyone buy FirstNet?
• 25 May – Fearing Government, Fearing Technology – The Ying and the Yang
• 12 April – Handicapping the States and FirstNet
• 7 April – Echo, Public Safety, FirstNet – why first responders need voice-activated tech
• 13 March – The Internet of Speeding Parking Things
• 2 March – Cops and Teachers – the new Social Workers?

2015

• 14 December – A Lesson for FirstNet from the Forests of the Okanogan
• 8 September – How Technology could improve Wildland Firefighting
• 6 August – Keeping the Fires of FirstNet Burning
• 19 July – Donald Trump Needs to be Cold, Tired and Hungry
• 30 June – Can Police Bodycam Video be Public while protecting Privacy?
• 25 May – The Internet of First Responder Things (IoFRT)
• 19 April – Live Long and Prosper – Impression from the first-ever FirstNet SPOCs meeting
• 4 March – Will FirstNet Become the Next Healthcare.Gov? – FirstNet needs to become a truly “independent authority”
• 7 February – FirstNet:  More Choices than just Opt-In or Opt-Out 
• 25 January – Municipal Broadband: Not a Walk in the Park – the advantages and disadvantages of municipal broadband networks

2014

• 29 December – Schrier’s Technology Wish List for 2015
• 27 December – Inside the Seattle Police Hackathon, subject: redaction of video
• 20 December – Will Obama’s Body-worn Video Cams for Cops Really Work?
• 5 November – FirstNet Comes to the “Other” Washington – impressions from the FirstNet Initial Consultation with the State of Washington
• 12 October – Oregon’s Initial Consultation with FirstNet – Impressions
• 25 September – FirstNet’s Scandal and Resurrection
• 13 September – People Live Horizontally but Government Organizes in Silos
• 5 August – CenturyLink to Bring Gigabit Broadband to Seattle
• 4 June – FirstNet Finds a Fireball in Sue Swenson as Chair of the Board
• 2 June – Every Citizen needs a Data Dossier
• 22 May – Mr. FirstNet comes to the (other) Washington – Ed Parkinson visits Washington State
• 6 May – Government Employees:  Bureaucrats or Entrepreneurs?
• 27 March – The Oso Disaster:  Should there be an “App for That”?
• 11 March – FirstNet Moves into First Gear
• 11 March – Why Google Fiber will Never Come to Seattle
• 22 February – Is FirstNet Stalled?
• 28 Jan – Saving Cities from the Clutches of the Internet Monopoly – What to do about Net Neutrality
• 28 Jan – What IT Workers should say to their CIOs – Leadership
• 13 Jan – Nobody Elected Me – Elected Officials, not CIOs, are elected to make the tough decisions

2013

• 30 Dec – 2013 in Review on this blog
• 30 Nov – Seattle needs more Video Surveillance – rather than more cops on the street
• 22 Nov – Lee Harvey Oswald and 9/11 – How they both robbed us of our youth.
• 21 Nov – FirstNet Business Plan:  Mission Impossible?
• 16 Nov – A 10 point Tech Plan for Mayors of Large Cities
• 16 Nov (originally 28 May) – Three Tech Things I’d do if Elected Mayor
• 24 Oct – Healthcare.gov: Why the Washington State Site Eclipsed D.C.’s – complete article was published in Crosscut
• 17 Oct – My Love-Hate Thang with Ballmer’s Microsoft
• 25 Sep – Is FirstNet Open and Transparent?
• 2 Sep – Should the Public Safety Wireless Network be in Every Cell Phone?
• 22 Aug – Lessons from NG311 for NG911
• 2 July – Apps Contests are Stupid
• 12 May – Cyberhacked – Again – how cybersecurity breaches in state and local governments can be prevented
• 30 Apr – 4 Quick Fixes for the Procurement Mess
• 7 Apr – No more Car Collisions or Speeding Tickets
• 11 Mar – Are Government CIOs and IT Departments Becoming Irrelevant?
• 5 Feb – Can a City be Hacked to its Knees?

2012

• 30 Dec – Will we give up our Privacy to keep our Guns?
• 21 Oct – The I-Everything, Watson, Lawyers and Plumbers
• 2 Oct – Just Another Apps Contest?  No, the recently concluded Evergreen Apps points the way to the future of open data
• 30 Sep – CIO Champions of Change honored by the White House
• 9 Sep – White House Safety Datapalooza
• 27 Aug – Kids can be 911 Heroes Too
• 14 Aug – My Mother-in-Law’s Name is Btfsplk – How to avoid being “Honanized”
• 1 Aug – CIO as City Cheerleader – the CIO’s role in City Economic Development
• 1 Aug – FirstNet: Lessons from the School of Hard Knocks
• 1 Aug – FirstNet:  Cats and Dogs Living Together
• 28 July – 3 Minutes, 38 Seconds – One Chief’s Vision for Future Policing
• 26 June – Does Walla Walla (or any City) need its own Domain Name?
• 18 March – Overpromise and Underdeliver – Tech Project Management
• 21 January – Tech Lessons from the Seattle Snowstorm
• 4 January – A Public-Private Radio Network?

2011

• 14 November – Ghosts of Tech
• 15 October – The Miracle of Government Regulation
• 24 September – Seattle Best of the Web – the Secret Sauce
• 12 August – Why Don’t Cops Just Use Smart Phones?
• 3 July – The Selectric Desktop – Are personal computers going the way of the typewriter?
• 18 June – S.911:  Profiles in Courage – Senate Commerce Committee approves bill for nationwide network
• 26 May – How Osama bin Laden Changed Government Technology
• 26 March – The Inception Event – how Code for America will help build open source apps
• 22 February – Bright Shiny (Shifting) Objects
• 12 January – A Chicken in Every Pot, a Smartphone in Every Pocket

2010

• 25 November – Thanks and Turkeys, 2010
• 16 November – EPark, GooPark, NoPark – Intelligent Transportation
• 31 October – The 2010 Technology Terror Watch List
• 18 October – Dang Guvmint Bure-crats
• 30 September – CIO Loners and Joiners
• 9 September – Why Don’t Cops just use Cell Phones?
• 19 August – Hackathoning Government – Gnomedex Open Government Hackathon
• 6 August – Citywatch – the future of neighborhood and block watches
• 27 June – Web 2.0, Government 2.0, Society 2.0
• 2 June – PITS (Pie-in-the-Sky) Computing
• 9 May – Net Neutrality?  How about Affordability!?
• 1 May – Improving Government Health on a Fiber Diet
• 8 Apr – FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt)
• 17 Mar – FCC’s National Broadband Plan and Cities
• 2 Mar – Data Data Everywhere
• 17 Feb – What’s Google Doing (with its 1 Gig broadband)
• 27 Jan – A Peek at the National Broadband Plan
• 13 Jan – The Time Machine– CES shows the need for speed

2009

• 31 Dec – 1999, an Odd Odyssey – remembering the Y2K Bug
• 13 Dec – Translucent to the User – Project Mgmt practices
• 1 Dec – Kurmudgeons and Kids
• 18 Nov – Catching a Cop Killer, and Broadband
• 30 Oct – Open Cities (and Social Media)
• 20 Oct – Great Recession – Naw, it’s an Opportunity!
• 5 Oct – Downtrends in CityTech
• 17 Sept – Politics and Technology
• 27 August – A Vision for Fibering and Unfibering America – (The National Broadband Plan)
• 2 August – Higher Tech Policing (A new CAD for Police)
• 18 July – Gray, not Green, Technology
• 28 June – My Greatest Failure: Consolidation
• 13 June – E-Mail Mangling
• 24 May – Tough Times, Tough Decisions
• 27 Apr – The Translucent Government
• 8 Apr – The FCC’s National Broadband Strategy
• 2 Apr – Comments to the FCC about Broadband Definitions
• 30 Mar – Photos – Gov’t 2.0 Camp, Wash., DC – Mar 2009
• 23 Mar – Twitter, Facebook – Not Ready for Gov’t 2.0?
• 17 Mar – The “P-I Test” for Project Management
• 13 Mar – U. S.: Third World Broadband
• 2 Mar – Microsoft vs Open Source
• 16 Feb – Death to Newspapers!
• 10 Feb – Sugar Rush Stimulus
• 28 Jan – City Cyber Armageddon
• 22 Jan – FUD in Pugetopolis – Microsoft Layoffs
• 9 Jan – Dead Dead-Tree News Arggh!

2008

• 13 Dec – I am shocked, SHOCKED to learn …
• 4 Dec – UASI, Bureaucracy and Terror
• 26 Nov – A Happy Technology Thanksgiving
• 23 Nov – It is 108 Degrees … in your Data Center
• 18 Nov – Dial Tone comes from God
• 15 Nov – Two-way Presidential Debates
• 11 Nov – The Digital Fireside Chat
• 4 Nov – High Tech Elections Dismay
• 30 Oct – Tech Nightmares to Frighten a CIO
• 23 Oct – Budget Crunch Opportunities
• 19 Oct – Awarding the Police
• 16 Oct – Hiring Felons
• 9 Oct – Budget Time for City Technology
• 5 Oct – MIXing Cities, Counties and Web Two-Oh
• 25 Sep – WAMU and the City
• 21 Sep – Emmys for Government TV?
• 5 Sep – Talk Groups will Keep You Safe
• 3 Sep – Back to Bicycling
• 2 Sept – Keeping Up with the Gateses
• 29 August – A National CTO?
• 25 August – Fossils and Technology
• 18 August – Everything Important is Local
• 16 August – City Averts Power Outage: IT’s Role
• 14 August – Bleeding Edge Government
• 5 August – Matching People to Technology
• 20 July – Locked Out of a Taxpayer’s Network
• 12 July – BTB: Broken Arm Hiatus
• 12 July – Seattle Toilet Tech debuts on E-Bay
• 12 July – Farm Tech: Hi-Tech and No Tech
• 8 June – Blogging from a Hospital Bed
• 2 June – Kids in Uniform in Iraq and Afghanistan
• 31 May – Google – Doing Evil?
• 31 May – Second Life? No, Get a Life!
• 28 May – Internet Pin-Up Girls (and Guys)
• 28 May – Nervous System of a City Government
• 28 May – Future Television
• 23 May – Heroes of 9/11 and Tech