links for 2009-06-11
Posted by Mark Belinsky on June 11, 2009 · Leave a Comment
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A solid breakdown of where the government is hoping to go with new technologies and civic participation, according to feedback from citizens and federal employees. Interesting, though dry, read.
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The Federal Trade Commission is shutting down an internet service provider that hosts in San Jose for a company based in Oregon whose operators live in Belize and hosts sites based in Russia.
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Always nice to have a foreign perspective on what's happening in the US. This one from the UK provides some horrifying details of what's happening in an America where anti-choice is apparently now in the majority. Great quote from Dr. Hern, who is guarded by two armed US marshals at his fortified clinic in Boulder, Colorado, defending the recent murder of Dr. George Tiller: "The main difference between the American anti-abortion movement and the Taliban is 8,000 miles and the Taliban is too civilised to kill people in a mosque. That Dr Tiller should be gunned down in his church while his wife was singing in the choir is a horrifying obscenity."
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Schwarzenegger in his own words – an oped about transferring from paper textbooks to digital ones in an effort to save Californians money. Just don't look at the stats of what access really looks like, it might blow his cover.
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The Hadopi, or "three strikes", law is thrown out in France, much to the upset of Sarkozy's wife Carla Bruni and other stars/copyright activists.
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Apparently the biggest threat to Open Government in New York is the Blackberry. If Democratic majority leader Malcolm Smith wasn't obsessed with his crackberry, apparently we'd still have a government. Tweet: what a twit.
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A solid review of a semester in cutting-edge tech for activism by Christopher Csikszentmihályi with an eye to how that's influencing the future of journalism.
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Sign the Supreme Court nominee's virtual cast? What a great way to make the country more sympathetic to her after she sprained her ankle in an unnamed New York airport. I'm guessing Newark. That place pains me just thinking about it.
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A breakdown of how the Department of State used Clickatell to engage users around the world with Obama's speech from Cairo
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