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It's been quite a week in re: gubernatorial e-mail. Yesterday, Oregon's governor, John Kitzhaber, announced that he would resign f...

On Monday, former Florida governor Jeb Bush placed online copies of hundreds of thousands of e-mails he sent and received while in office. ...

Things are going to be quiet around here this week: my modem abruptly ceased working on Sunday afternoon. Owing to the holiday I expect th...

This just about beats the record for tardy posting, but below you'll find the slides from my Society of American Archivists presentation...

Last week, the Boston Phoenix published an article by Chris Faraone highlighting how local, state, and federal governments are struggling ...

Market Street Bridge over the Susquehanna River, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 12 November 2010. The Ionic columns at the entrance of the bridg...

One of the benefits of blogging is its real-time nature: stuff happens, and posts follow almost almost immediately afterward. One of the d...

Today was the first day of Documenting Leadership: A Symposium on Public Executive Records in the 21st Century . About 100 journalists, cur...

Approximately 150 people -- IT professionals, archivists and records managers, public policy experts, and journalists -- attended the Open G...

If you're interested in electronic records, open government, and the relationship between the two and will be in (or can arrange to be i...

Last week, I posted registration information for the Open Government in the Digital Age Summit, which the New York State Chief Information ...

The New York State Office of the Chief Information Officer/Office for Technology and the New York State Archives are hosting an: OPEN GOVE...

Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller and First Lady Margaretta "Happy" Rockefeller with guests on New Year's Eve , 31 December 1970....

Austin's Congress Street Bridge, which spans Lady Bird Lake, is home to the nation's largest urban bat colony. During the summer mo...

On the eve of the 4th, here are a couple of examples of the heady new opportunities and horrific challenges that governments face in the dig...

This month, OutHistory.org features a new online exhibit that was made possible by the New York State Freedom of Information Law (FOIL). T...