@david-reed
David S. Reed is a public administration expert and the founder of Center for Public Administrators. He is Associate Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Public Integrity, an author, and a former civil servant. www.PubAdmin.org
Blog entry: Why government software is so expensive.
In my experience, there are four major reasons: outsourcing the whole thing, the pricing death spiral, funhouse-mirror price tags, and procurement processes that don't favor quality development.
Great job by Catherine Viette on
@en.france24.com
anchoring special coverage of the war.
I keep trying to write clever blog entries with Deep Realizations about government tech, while failing to document the simple, fundamental truths that guide my work. So here's one of those fundamental truths: government simply has to hire people who understand how technology works.
Call for editors | Join the European Journal of International Relations’ editorial team.
Application deadline: 31 March 2026
Learn more: https://ow.ly/3XH050YhlYx
#CallForEditors EJIR
Join us at @nwu.org! Being a freelancer is hard enough, no need to do it without union comrades.
Like the godfather said, "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer."
I suggest neither call them out nor ignore it. Tell them what you heard, withholding what you need to protect the source, and tell them you want to understand their concerns about students working with you. It makes them aware trash talk will get back to you, and may give you useful information.
Calling all DHS #whistleblowers.... Congress's watchdog arm, the Government Accountability Office, wants to hear from you.
@pogo.org SCOOP:
www.pogo.org/investigates...
'...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.' Happy #DarwinDay !
I will read my opening statement for a salon on “Is there a moral aesthetic?” (It’s funny!) at The Writers Center in Bethesda on Wednesday, February 11. Show starts 7:00. Come! writer.org/event/open-m...
i can't express just how much better it is to be doing any freelance gig work as part of a union. please drop in, translator friends! feel free to DM me with NWU questions.
For those looking for freelance work in the wake of WaPo layoffs: I'm an editor at large overseeing Ideas & Culture at Bloomberg, including our Books coverage. Find me at skillingswo2@bloomberg.net
I will read my post-Beat poem, “F. Scott Fitzgerald Be Damned” at the Fun-A-Day Showcase on Sunday February 8 at Rhizome DC. I’m scheduled to read at 3:30. Come! #Fun-A-Day www.rhizomedc.org/new-events/2...
When you paywall an article about how to stay safe in the coming emergency, that does not reflect well on you.
As heavy snow and ice approach, we must all work together to stay safe. Our Montgomery County leaders have created a central portal for sharing the latest winter storm information. Hang tough!
Grateful to blog.18f.org for posting all their all files. I had linked to a piece or two in my syllabus and a student just noticed the old "official" links are all dead... but I've just nicely replaced them with this great archive!
The European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) is hiring a Managing Editor!
Apply by 30 Jan:
https://ow.ly/ONWg50XWML8
#ManagingEditor #EditorJobs #ScholarlyPublishing #ETUI
MAGA can't whitewash what happened on January 6, 2021 because of the uncontradicted J6 Report and because the insurrectionists themselves photographed and videotaped their crimes.
We’ll continue to tell the story of how brave police officers defended the Capitol against Trump’s rampaging mob.
I just updated my spreadsheet of crime-related papers published in top economics journals:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
New tool from Jennifer Kleiman automatically verifies the citations in a paper. #PeerReview pubadmin.org/2025/12/08/a...
💡Academic survival tip 8: Rigor is non-negotiable.
"The importance of your research does not lie in the grandeur of your conclusions, but in the rigor of your methodology."
(via @david-reed.bsky.social)
The importance of your research does not lie in the grandeur of your conclusions, but in the rigor of your methodology.
Join the big friendly crowd at NO KINGS in North Bethesda. We’re on Rockville Pike in front of Strathmore.
#NoKings
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS North Bethesda” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
“angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night” - Allen Ginsberg
Today is the seventieth anniversary of the Six Gallery reading.
