The general interest in the area of the ubiquitous networking of near everything is becoming more mainstream. IBM and The Internet of Things is an example of how established big R&D is getting on board.

I just got another email from Obama. It's interesting that people aren't following his moves using online communication tools more closely (short of some articles about his campaign). The fact that he's smoothly converted the campaign's online prowess to that of the US's is remarkable, but oh so quiet. I bet I'm just not looking hard enough, but I think there's a need to take notice that this is the first time the government has really gone online with web 2.0 and social. Hell, even email blasts which are oh so old-skool in internet time are a staple of both parties and very effective communications. How about a read only, opt-in listserv to the whole country from the white house, congress, and senate? Cspan should run it. The current use of technology - and all other attempts at it by gov - is all very militaryesque. In a project management class I took the example of how not to run a project was an article about the catastrophic failure of an FBI software design and rollout plan. Never has government and technology=smooth, but it's getting better. The DMV 'pay your fine' web page, city water bill web page, etc. seem to be the painfully extruded result of months of government board meetings, extended deadlines, and failed planning. But then again, the good 'ol US of A did give us the Internet. Lets see what Obama CAN DO to bring the social front end to it!!

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Interestingly, I tweeted about the prettyloaded.com gallery and now they're following me on twitter. The culture of reciprical tweet follow love is still in its infancy, like when AOL only had four or five people in the chat rooms ('94,'95) and you'd say hi to everyone. why care to follow someone just because they follow you? possible assuredness of common interests?