AI Action plan
Here ya go folks – this is the current administration’s AI Action Plan: https://www.ai.gov/action-plan
Here are some words from the current administration about preventing “woke AI” in the federal government https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/preventing-woke-ai-in-the-federal-government/
Here are some very well thought out words from someone disagreeing with above two: https://www.thedissident.news/state-sponsored-stupidity-the-inevitable-failure-of-trumps-ai-strategy/
I like the idea of an AI strategy for the federal government to support. All this anti Woke anti DEI drivel has got to go.
“Accumulation of Cognitive Debt”
There's an article published at MIT that studied "Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872 This blog post was pitched as a rebuttal of sorts to the MIT study - definitely...
Congratulations Impact Makers
Impact Makers was awarded "Best for the World" by B Lab. Here's a Richmond Time's Dispatch mentioning of the award. I met Michael Pirron shortly after moving to Richmond in 2004, and have watched him methodically and conscientiously build Impact Makers into a...
DropBox Security
Oh, the line between security and convenience is harsh. While reading TechRepublic I found this interesting article on DropBox security. I love the convenience of cloud technologies, and use DropBox like lots of people, including the article author (Michael Kassner)....
GOOG perspective on links
Analytics is an area that I will be focusing quite a bit in the coming months. I read this article about linking and Penguin 2.0 changes on a website called "Search Engine Watch." There are many pieces to the content puzzle that websites have to face, and...
Google Apps v. Office 365
The TechRepublic newsletter is worth a scan every day. I found this gem recently and it's worth a read if you use, or might use in the future, either Google Apps or Microsoft Office. Here it is: Google Apps v. Office 365: Head-to-head comparison of features...
UltraEdit
I first used UltraEdit sometime in the late 90s. I loved it back then. When I went to work for TQuist in 2003 I purchased another copy. I just now retired my last XP system, and so I've decided to get the latest copy. I hope it's aged well. They've changed...