See how CIOs in US agencies feel the IT spend on their projects is going with the Federal IT Dashboard system. Transparency needs to happen in all areas but tax funded government agencies first. §

19 people with big titles on that Irish Innovation Task Force. Never mind all the government chaps to support them. They’d probably do better just pooling some of their annual bonuses into a start-up funding pool. §

Putting “of” in front of your personal domain is a clever little idea. blog.of.paulmwatson.com. Hmm… blog.ofpaulmwatson.com… §

80 data sets from 32 New York City agencies for the Big Apple Apps competition. Man, I’d love more data out of Irish cities. §

James Duncan Davidson goes hands-on with the Olympus E-P1. Desirable. §

Africa has six times the mobile penetration than internet, the world’s highest mobile growth rate and 1/3 of the population have a mobile. Interesting Google to SMS services launched in Uganda. §

Seedcamp ‘09 is coming soon. €50k and 3 months support based in London for 5 or so start-up teams. §

The web can handle load. Individual companies on the web cannot. One more reason why we shouldn’t be building up mega web companies and centralising around Twitter. Copy the news. §

Shopify has an app. store and now offers an-Amazon like product review system. Clever guys. Almost makes me want to go back into e-commerce, back in the days of building e-baskets from scratch. §

Our brains operate on the edge of chaos, fermenting ideas. Any parent will tell you that babies are agents of chaos. (via @sdempsey) §