Gerald Walpin (appointed by George W Bush) was the Inspector General looking heavily into AmeriCorps. (more)

Even large/sophisticated HealthCare providers are complaining that the Meaningful Use Of EMR rules/timelines are unrealistic. One of most revealing assessments came from Dr. Thomas H. Lee, president of the physician network at PartnersHealthCare. “Effective use of electronic health records will greatly improve patient safety, quality and efficiency,” Dr. Lee said in a letter to Medicare officials. But he said the approach taken by the administration was based on “unrealistic expectations” and “unachievable timelines.” “We are very concerned about the requirement that hospitals and eligible professionals must meet each and every one of the objectives to demonstrate meaningful use and thereby qualify for incentive payments,” Dr. Lee said. (more)

A v3 of IPhone (and IPod Touch) software was announced. Copy And Paste. P2P (BonJour) networking over Blue Tooth. Turn-by-turn GPS directions. Apple's online application mart, which will let developers charge users for subscriptions to content, for new content or for more after-purchase functionality. Dubbed "In App Purchases," the new capability gives more flexibility to developers, said Forstall. He cited examples that included games - where users could pay for additional levels - and a Book Store built into an iPhone application (Micro-Payments). A way for Embedded Hardware (like a diabetes monitor or other Sensor) to communicate with the IPhone (see also Nada Mobile). (more)

The IPhone has no Copy And Paste! Neither does Opera on my Sharp Zaurus. Very irritating. Possibly the biggest reason for me to consider switching to a MID later this year. (Maybe I should try switching to OpenZaurus.)

custom-fab service, a cousin of Desktop Fab (more)

Barack Obama is continuing the Faith Based Office created via Executive Order by George W Bush. (more)

non-free service where site "publisher" pays to have non-"standard" WebFont available on site, automatically loaded as needed by user's Web Browser. (more)

one of the most powerful and destructive Labor Union-s. (more)

A beta site for Web Outliner, Marc Canter's (and others) pure-browser OutLining tool. Not working too well (dragging to reorganize nodes) for me on Mozilla, will have to try later with MsIE. Also wish it used some set of SmartAscii tags for inline styles rather than HTML tags, but that's a minor quibble. Very cool idea. Would love to tie this into Wiki pages for Wiki And Outlining. (more)

Marc Canter traces the path of a Google Lock-In-via-API (GData) strategy. Chris Messina writes In simplest terms, with the state we're in with centralized authentication in web applications, it's like waiting for Microsoft and Apple Computer to strike a deal enabling you to Copy And Paste from Appleworks to Word. (more)

process of copying or moving text between locations/windows/applications by selecting a block of text and then dragging it to an insertion point (more)

founder and CEO of FaceBook

In the United States, an Inspector General (IG) leads an organization charged with examining the actions of a government agency, military organization, or military contractor as a general auditor of their operations to ensure they are operating in compliance with generally established policies of the government, to audit the effectiveness of security procedures, or to discover the possibility of misconduct, waste, fraud, theft, or certain types of criminal activity by individuals or groups related to the agency's operation, usually involving some misuse of the organization's funds or credit. In the United States, there are numerous Offices of Inspector General (OIGs) at the federal, state, and local levels. (more)

Steve Yegge gave a presentation on Rhino. (more)

In human-computer interaction, cut and paste and copy and paste offer user-interface paradigms for transferring text, data, files or objects from a source to a destination. Most ubiquitously, users require the ability to cut and paste sections of plain text. This paradigm has close associations with graphical user interfaces that use pointing devices such as a computer mouse (by Drag And Drop, for example). (more)

Steve Blank on the amazing Pivot that Fairchild Semiconductor went through to embrace its own Disruptive Innovation of IntegratedCircuits, even at the cost of losing its head of Sales. The VP of sales’ incentives led him to stifle any innovation that got in the way of selling as much of the current technology as he could – even if it meant killing the future of the company. Luckily for Fairchild and the future of the semiconductor and computer business, he quit when his compensation plan was changed.

New page Of The Day: Book Server.

Union Square Ventures has invested in Shape Ways. Desktop Fab moving foward! Shapeways was founded in the Netherlands but with this financing the company will move its headquarters to New York City. With MakerBot here and Shapeways arriving, we are also excited to see New York becoming a center for a new kind of manufacturing. (more)

Disaster Response shelter. (more)

Hexayurt-s were plentiful at Burning Man this year. This is a growing tradition there. (more)