Words to dance by (Coast Guard to "Develop a strategy that defines how the Coast Guard can use Web 2.0") and a few other items

Posted on 28 August 2008 by Peter Stinson | Comments

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From J. Stephen Conn

In the as-seen-in-the Middle East Times, the just-recently released U.S. Coast Guard’s Command, Control, Communication, Computers, and Information Technology (C4&IT) Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2008-2012:

Develop a strategy that defines how the Coast Guard can use Web 2.0 technologies (e.g. social-networking sites, wikis, blogs, and podcasts) to improve the Coast Guard’s missions and operations; provide transparency to the public and interact with constituents; and enhance information sharing and collaboration within the Coast Guard and with partners, such as the Navy, Army, Air Force, and Border Patrol.

The major milestones for this objective:

• FY08 Q4: Meet with CG-00 to capture the Commander’s intent for Web 2.0
• FY08 Q4: Develop plan to support the Commander’s intent for Web 2.0

Wouldn’t that be a meeting to sit-in on: capturing the Commandant’s intent for Web 2.0 participation.

Meanwhile, over at the New York Times’ Bits, Saul Hansell tells us what he’s learned as a blogger for the New York Times:

I’d say that blog is the name of a format for information and opinion that is roughly analogous to “column” or “newsletter.” The format itself doesn’t tell you whether the content is pedestrian or inflammatory, impressionistic or deeply researched.

Sure sometimes a format becomes associated with a particular style of writing. Think tabloid. But that doesn’t mean that every publication in the tabloid shape is the same as The National Enquirer. The New York Times Book Review, for example, is a tabloid, and its stock in trade is far from headless bodies in topless bars. . . .

What’s much more important to me, however, is . . . blogs are part of a conversation. We link liberally to others, even our direct competitors. Readers comment. And so do sources and participants.

And in other news, scuttle is that the captain from the west coast and the boatswain mate from South Carolina have something in common: Issues with timely security checks. And, on another topic many people don’t want to hear about, here in Hampton Roads, I’m now receiving threatening text messages while, somewhere in New England, a woman and her daughter are now receiving Transitional Compensation Benefits (See page 10-22) as per 10 USC 1059.