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I recently talked about how an IRS API would be the holy grail of APIs, and after reading 
I have been doing some work on a project to develop an API for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form. After getting the core API designed and published, I wanted to provide several supporting APIs that would help developers be more successful when building their apps on...
I get a lot of requests from individuals and companies to partner with them to work on projects. Partnering can range from advising a startup, working on in-kind or paid projects or just having a conversation around a specific topic. Each one of these engagements, I guess you could consider is a sort of interview, for lack of a better descriptio...
When I pulled the over 5,000 datasets from 22 federal agencies after the implementation of
I just finished the basic setup for a project that @audreywatters and I have been working on together. A while back Audrey said she wanted to better under...
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I'm reading through the some of the news about the Salesforce Hackathon, and while I'm disappointed in the outcome, with a bounty that big I'm not surprised. The event organizers are focused on the one thing in a hackthon you can ...
I'm reading through the some of the news about the Salesforce Hackathon, and while I'm disappointed in the outcome, with a bounty that big I'm not surprised. The event organizers are focused on the one thing in a hackthon you can scale, which will not actually scale any...
We have anywhere from 1 to 25 people on a city bus at any time. Every one of these folks have a cell phone in their pocket. I think we can assume at least a handful of them possess smart phones.
With this technology, why don't we know where each bus is in real-time? We know that each bus has a tracking device on it, so knowing the location is...
When I read stories like Walmart Holding Canned Food Drive For Its Own Underpaid Employees, I can't help but think about the statement I've heard from numerous conservative friends, that "the market will work itself out". That somehow markets are this magical force that...
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I'm totally thankful for the experiences I've had over the last 90 days in Washington D.C. as a Presidential Innovation Fellow, and even m...
Since this blog acts as kind of a journal for my world, I figured I should make sure and add an entry regarding my exit of my Presidential Innovation Fellowship, affectionately called PIF program.
In June
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I just wrote a post on why I left my Presidential Innovation Fellowship (PIF). Overall I think PIF program is a pretty amazing vehicle for brin...
The Healthcare.gov launch has been a disaster. I cannot turn on CNN or NPR during the day, without hearing a story about what a failure the technology and implementation has been for the Affordable Care Act(ACA).
I have writt...
I wanted to launch a small web application in stealth mode. I also wanted it to run completely on Github, using Github Pages. I was able to setup a Github repository, as a private repo, then was able to launch a Github Page for the same repository and make this branch public.<...
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I've been working on open data and APIs pretty heavily since
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I wrote a piece on the rollout of Healthcare.gov, and while there are numerous illnesses in the government that contributed to the launch being such a failure, my analysis took it up to t...
I gave a talk as part of the Mind the Future discussion at the #OpenVA gathering on the University of Mary Wasington campus last Monday.
My talk was focused on helping educational institutions the role APIs will play in the future of education, and helping ensure web literacy across our society.
You can find the slides from my talk, along with
I have been deploying websites that run 100% on Github, using Github Pages and Jekyll for a while now. I'm pushing forward with different approaches to deploying sites and applications using this model, and my recen...
If you pay attention to the news, you have probably heard about the technical trouble with the launch of the Affordable Care Act, 50 state marketplaces and the central Healthcare.gov site.
People across the country are encountering show-stopping bugs in the sign up process, and if ...
It was a really tough week in Washington DC. We came into the office Monday morning to learn that in addition to facing a possible government shutdown, that about 30% of the workforce in our department at the VA was moving on, due to a change in contract. While these folks had an idea the contract was being renegotiated, the...
This is a post from my fellow Presidential Innovation Fellow Robert Read. His post the other morning on his Facebook stream really moved me. I thought it summed up this whole mess very well and wanted to share it with you!
I'm lucky. I'm furloughed, but my kid's education doesn't depend on it. I don't live month to month. I'm not at ...
I'm slowly getting my blog world in order after the move from my own proprietary blogging platform to using Github + Jekyll hosted using Github Pages.
I've been using HTML pages for blog posts at AP...
I've had the joy of watching a lot of you bash on my girlfriend, from the misogynistic douche bags telling her to get back in the kitchen because she questions their technology startup, to the recent @FakeAudreyWatters Twitter account spending a good portion of their day mocking her.
