Category Archives: politics
Maddow highlights Fox’s hypocrisy in Sherrod story
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Excel is not a database
The New Organizing Institute Education Fund, in conjunction with the Funders’ Committee for Civic Participation released the 2nd Annual Survey of Civic Engagement Technology. The report is full of interesting information on how nonprofits (mis)(ab)use technology to manage their organizations. … Continue reading
Inspired by Cory Booker
The closing plenary of the Personal Democracy Forum — an hour long — was a great discussion between Cory Booker, Arianna Huffington, RNC tech chair Saul Anuzis, PDF founder Andrew Rasiej, NYT Times tech writer Nick Bilton and Tim O’Reilly. … Continue reading
Privacy by Design
The latest CDT Policy Post discusses the importance Privacy by Design. They extensively reference Anne Cavoukian (Ontario’s kickass Privacy Commissioner and author of Who Knows). The seven principles of Privacy by Design are: Proactive, not Reactive; Preventative, not Remedial Privacy … Continue reading
Good help is hard to find (or: Nancy Pelosi annexes Canada)
I wrote Nancy Pelosi, letting her know that electronic voting machines are problematic and voter-verified paper ballots are essential. She wrote me back: Like her colleague Diane Feinstein, she is having trouble finding competent correspondence staff. Note the key paragraph … Continue reading
Diane Feinstein sending constituents bad info
As part of a letter-writing campaign, I recently asked Senator Diane Feinstein to support health care (health insurance?) reform. The form letter I got back is simply wrong. She wrote “However, neither the Senate nor the House has adopted a … Continue reading
Sixty-five more reasons to call congress
Reposted from my daily kos diary: A while ago, I wrote about Stories of Health, our project to document how America’s broken health care system affects us all. On the eve of Congress’ historic health care vote, I have some … Continue reading
Jon Stewart eviscerates spineless democrats
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Protest + brass section = performance art
Operation Hey Mackey! – Whole Foods, Oakland from Jamie LeJeune on Vimeo. via Venice for Change.
Protect Insurance Companies PSA
Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell