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Your post just made my point perfectly. Your experience has allowed you to do your job better. That's the point. O'Reilly is a book publisher and a pundit wh

Your post just made my point perfectly. Your experience has allowed you to do your job better. That's the point. O'Reilly is a book publisher and a pundit whose pulling together bloggers to have a Government 2.0 conference which he thinks will somehow solve the problem because, imho, he has no idea how to actually solve the problem. I mean, this is a guy who lists coining Web 2.0 as one of his accomplishments in life On the other hand someone who actually does this sort of thing for a living and has experience would realize what the problems are and be able to address them appropriately.

frossie 17y ago
"Your experience has allowed you to do your job better. [...] O'Reilly is a [...] pundit" Well the thing about pundits is, they know people, and people listen to them. Now don't get me wrong - I see inefficiencies in IT infrastructure everywhere I look - government, healthcare, even large areas of science - but nobody asks me my opinion. Maybe if O'Reilly could inflict me on those people for a couple of hours, they would learn something. [for "me", read "people in our position", not personally me] I have a lot of sympathy for what I think you are saying - that certain classes of people have a gift for self-promotion and get a lot more credit for things instead of the real technical/systems talent, which makes us feel they don't "deserve" it, but that doesn't mean they bring zero to the table, either.