Category Archives: politics
MAPLight’s awesome Money Near Votes tool
If you haven’t heard of MAPLight.org before, here’s what they do (which is fantastic): MAPLight.org, a groundbreaking public database, illuminates the connection between campaign donations and legislative votes in unprecedented ways. Elected officials collect large sums of money to run … Continue reading
The US Congress doesn’t understand the Internet
Recently, I received an email from Nancy Pelosi: Apparently no one explained to her (despite representing Internet central), that scanning your letterhead and pasting it in to your email is a bad idea. It looks worse when it’s on a … Continue reading
Doctorow: reign in ISPs to foster innovation
Writing for The Guardian, Cory Doctorow explains why net neutrality is essential and dispells myths about billing to show us we need a free and open Internet to allow for innovation: Take filtering: by allowing ISPs to silently block access … Continue reading
Hilarious FTC ads poke fun at Experian’s “free” reports
Seen those annoying ads for freeCreditReport.com? Been, er, annoyed? Not only are they annoying (sense a theme here?), they’re also misleading. The FTC has their own ads, promoting AnnualCreditReport.com, which actually is free.
Support BC-STV
British Columbia could become the first jurisdiction in north america to have real electoral reform with STV — Single Transferable Vote. Help them out.
Citability.org slidecast
Citability looks like a terrific, useful project: Citability.org: Using advanced permalinks to make government information more accessible, reliable, and transparent View more presentations from Adrian Parsons.
Michelle Obama awes London (and me too)
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Generation We
Generation WE: The Movement Begins… from Generation We on Vimeo.