My favorite theme is on the webosphere where Philip Greenspan wonders why the NYT needed $40 million to make a pay wall when he did the same work for MIT press for a few thousand.
I call it the High School kids with Web technology because high school kids with their javascript often accomplish tasks in their spare time that agencies contract out for millions.
Remember a post in which I discuss the Fresno school board that spent about $2 million to update school record retrieval? The contract was from Microsoft, it involved web technology and still doesn't work. The paradox is that Bill Gates did exactly the same thing when his mom got his his first job, as a high school kid some 40 years ago! His mom was involved with the school board and finagled a software contract for young Bill. (The rumor is that his mom also got him the IBM PC contract)
The problem here is lack of exposure. These over priced contracts are mostly fraud and a little exposure of the details of the project would reveal that.
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