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Jim Stogdill
Jim Stogdill is a group CTO for a large technology consultancy where he advocates the development of open source software in government and defense. He believes, perhaps naively, that open source can help break the proprietary lock in business model that is the norm in that space. In previous lives he built B2B reverse auction systems, brought heuristic-based optimization and online trading to the corporate treasury, and traveled the world as a Navy Officer. Unfortunately from his vantage point it all looked like the inside of a submarine. He spends his free time hacking silver halides with decidedly low-tech gear. He's on twitter as @jstogdill 
An ethical bargainTransparency, relationships and other things corporations could learn from a small bookstore.
Most of the relationships you build with corporations are like icebergs — essentially hidden from view. But what if we could interact with "human" corporations? What would that look like? How would it work?
Quantum trading! And tunnels through the Earth!
Remember when we used to place data centers in whatever cheap abandoned warehouse was nearby? That's a quaint notion in an era where trading advantage and arbitrage depend more and more on the speed of light and link distance.
Big data: Global good or zero-sum arms race?It remains to be seen if big data will catalyze exponential growth.
Will a big data revolution dramatically change lives, or will it instead yield a middle class feel-good machine that's irrelevant to the working poor?
Amygdala FarmVilleThe people that know the most about you are the people you know the least about.
We have entered the Matrix, but it's not our body heat companies want. They want the preference model encoded in our amygdala and a list of all the people that might influence that model — and you may not realize it, but you're giving it to them.
Points of control = RentsInnovation was once the sole rent source in the computer industry, but things have changed.
We love companies that innovate, even if they can extract rent from it. What we don't like is when they mature and transition to less palatable rent extraction strategies.
Better, faster, cheaper ... emergentCommentary: "Beltway bandits" are the result of government complexity.
In this response to Carl Malamud's Gov 2.0 Summit speech, Jim Stogdill says that demonizing the "beltway bandits" without addressing the root cause -- the lock-in incentives inherent in a single-customer market -- will just lead to new ways to lock them in. Fixing government IT means fixing incentives and making the cognitive leap to intentional emergence.
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