Every Sunday morning I like to watch the CBS “Sunday Morning” Show. It’s more relaxing news that makes you feel good especially on a Sunday Morning. They have some really good segments that they do and it looks really good in HD. Oh yea, and who can forget the awesome bow-ties worn by Charles Osgood.

Well this Sunday they did a segment on Reveling in ‘America’s Best Idea’, Filmmaker Ken Burns Talks About His Latest Documentary, a History of Our National Parks. It was a great segment however, one lower third caught our eye.

Anyone see it? Look at the map. Wyoming is on top of Montana! It should be the other way around! Pretty crazy that no one caught that including the producer!

It should look like this.

Jen and I went to the Funeral Procession for Ted Kennedy yesterday.  We were located at the exit of the U.S Capitol where the motorcade exited after stopping at the Senate steps.

The Zune HD is a pretty neat little device from Microsoft. Pricing and Storage sizes have not yet been announced but check out the video to see the amazing OLED screen and the new interface.  It looks promising but will probably be priced out of my realm.

This will never happen with recovery.gov but it’s in the second contract modification document from Smartronix.

Synteractive is a strategy and business solutions consulting firm specializing in
leveraging the power of information to radically improve the efficiency and effectiveness
of complex organizations. Synteractive has a proven record of using Microsoft Office
SharePoint Server (MOSS) technology to aid in business transformation efforts of both
federal government agencies and private companies. They will leverage their unrivaled
expertise in Web 2.0 technology implementation to transform Recovery.gov from a mere
information dissemination website into an interactive platform where Americans can
swap stories about stimulus projects in their areas, upload pictures illustrating the
effects of the projects, blog about their experiences, and ultimately engaged as a
meaningful member of the Recovery community.

First off, why build a transparent application in Sharepoint! Secondly, have you seen any government sites that allow users to blog and upload pictures? Can’t wait to see this in action!

Oh yeah, hopefully Smartronix isn’t letting Syneractive design the website, it looks really bad!

Contract Documents for Recovery.gov can be found at http://www.recovery.gov/?q=node/765 <– where are the pretty urls?
PDF that shows above quote Page 5 Section 2.2 on this document http://www.recovery.gov/sites/default/files/508%20Second%20Modification%20Managment%20Proposal.pdf