“The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If you can find something everyone agrees on, it’s wrong.”

Mo Udall
“When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.”

Oscar Wilde
“Committee—a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.”

Fred Allen

Agile Government


The thought popped into my head, is there a movement to apply the agile development process to government? A quick google search leads to a bunch of results but I haven’t had a chance to read them yet. Is it a good idea? Is it practical in the sphere of governance? What do you think?

“The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it’s against the law.”

Alex Levin
“It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”

James Thurber

Vortex


So many thoughts and emotions spinning around, I think I need to commit some of it to “paper”.

Grazr Editor - Screenflow Screencast Test on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Ignore my droning voice, mostly this was just experimenting with screenflow. I also wanted to document the editor, since cross browser window, cross application drag and drop is a unique web technology that no one else has.

Revelation


I wish I wasn’t so busy trying to get our latest product into a generally usable form. Once again I’m seeing tons of posts lamenting the current state of information overload. Many of these people are declaring RSS bankruptcy and abandoning (or declaring the intention to abandon) feed readers.

I just had a revelation on what might be the best way to describe what I seem to be failing at whenever I talk about the problems with RSS readers. A blog post popped into my head that I think makes the best case on what I believe the solution is. If I get any time later tonight I’ll try to write it up.