Christopher Groskopf (@onyxfish) is a news app developer at The Chicago Tribune. Read More »

The Social Security Administration can't fully modernize its business and accounting information technology systems and processes because of governmentwide limitations beyond its control, the agency wrote in its response to a congressional survey released Tuesday. Read More »

Patrice Schneider, chief strategy officer for the Media Development Loan Fund, believes a Fifth Estate has arisen, however, in the form of social media. Read More »

At the Interior Department, workers manually key financial reports into governmentwide accounting systems. The Department of Homeland Security relies on manual processes to ensure all of its assistance programs are included each year in a catalog of federal domestic assistance programs. Read More »

In part one of my Mozilla Public License piece, I mentioned license compatibility as a major feature of MPL 2.0. In fact, it's such a major - and complicated - issue that it warrants its own explanation. First, a disclaimer[:] Read More »

Every month, more open government data is available online. Open government data is being used in mobile apps, baked into search engines or incorporated into powerful data visualizations. Read More »

HPCC Systems, the division of LexisNexis Risk Solutions dedicated to big data, has released the open source code of its data-processing-and-delivery software it’s positioning as a better version of Hadoop. Read More »

A Congressionally-requested survey of how agencies manage their business and accounting information technology systems reveals too much work is still being done manually and not enough data is being made public, House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., charged Tuesday. Read More »

Falls are a major safety issue in hospitals, and the ability to predict and detect them immediately could improve patient care. So research being conducted on two motion-sensing technologies might have applications to inpatient care, as well as to assisted living and long-term-care facilities. Read More »

I recently went to the MIL-OSS ("military open source software") 2011 Working Group (WG) / Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Read More »