Re: FYI - re Health IT and Usability

I have sent the following text to ABC 7.

It appears that an irrefutable case of government censorship within  
high levels of the HHS is occurring; this has been uncovered by  
members of the BayCHI Group, who have analyzed the interface behavior  
of the tax-funded Health IT Buzz Blog. The article under review posted  
in this blog is an investigation into usability engineering guidelines  
for HHS computer systems--very lengthy and verbose documents. http://healthit.hhs.gov/blog/onc/index.php/2010/01/15/public-comments-period-open/comment-page-1/#comment-495 
.

However, the government censorship was revealed when replying to the  
topic through the blog--this blog does not publish like a blog--it  
receives the uploads, then publishes ONLY SELECTIVE ENTRIES--in this  
case around a week later for some entries, while holding back other  
entries altogether. This hard-coded behavior is not only an indication  
of executive control over uploads from the public, this behavior  
cannot be correctly labeled in any other way than "censorship" by the  
HHS.

This is probably all I can do about this for now. Thank you for  
bringing it to our attention, Wendy.

(http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/feature?section=resources/inside_station/station_info&id=5792275 
)

Greg
On Feb 12, 2010, at 6:46 AM, [email protected] wrote:

> Love that reply! BayCHI discussion list is getting good. Hope  
> eventually I get some work again so I can afford to renew my lapsed  
> membership.
>
> LjR
>
> Sent from 'the road'
>
> On Feb 11, 2010, at 8:46 PM, Jaime Guerrero <jaime@low- 
> impedance.com> wrote:
>
>> On Feb 11, 2010, at 5:19am, Greg Austin wrote:
>>
>>> The publishing of those comments lagged behind their upload by at  
>>> least a week. Therefore, they are not coded to instantaneously  
>>> publish information, like a blog is--these comments are being  
>>> received by an entity, then later published by an entity. The  
>>> mechanism (and reason) for that intermediary step can only be  
>>> construed as censorship.
>>
>> my favorite proverb:
>>
>>   Never Attribute to Malice
>>   That Which Can Be Adequately Explained by Stupidity
>>       -- Hanlon's Razor   (see wikipedia)
>>
>> (I modify "Stupidity" to: "Stupidity, Ignorance, Lack of  
>> Motivation, or Ill-Designed Systems or Processes")
>>
>> thus it applies perfectly to bureaucrats, clerks, peons, teenagers,  
>> tragedy-of-the-commons situations,
>> and a great deal of computerized systems
>>
>>
>> :-)
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