Monthly Archives: March 2010
Transparency Camp 2010: Government, Transparency, Open Data and Coffee
Some unconferences are codathons. Others focus on citizen engagement and Congress. This weekend’s Transparency Camp in Washington, D.C. brought together technologists, journalists, developers, advocates for open data, open government and open data for discussions, case studies, workshops and even, as … Continue reading
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Transparency Camp 2010: 3 Words from the D.C. unconference
You can access and embed this Wordle for 3 Words from Transparency Camp 2010 at Wordle.net. Learn more about Transparency Camp at TransparencyCamp.org. There is a Transparency Camp livestream. Here’s a second Wordle for Transparency Camp 2010 that removes the … Continue reading
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CDT, EFF, CEA, PK, Others Criticize ACTA Copyright Treaty Draft Language
On March 22, a collection of tech advocates, non-profits and associations opposed to the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) wrote a letter (embedded below) to Ron Kirk, head of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, criticizing the reported draft language of the ACTA. … Continue reading
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Tech Term of the Week: Location-based service (LBS) bacn
Over the past year, I’ve grown increasingly frustrated by the prevalence of notifications about mayorships and badges on Foursquare or finds on Gowalla. During the SXSW festival, it grew monumentally worse. As location-based services (LBS) like Foursquare and Gowalla have … Continue reading
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Google shuts down Google.cn, adds censorship dashboard | #GoogleCn
Last night, Google shut down its China search engine, Google.cn. Visitors to Google.cn are now redirected to Google’s Chinese-language service based in Hong Kong, Google.com.hk. Google has now set up a censorship dashboard for Google services in China that shows which services … Continue reading
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The past and future of .com: Bill Clinton on the first Internet Presidency [#25years]
How much has the online world changed in the past quarter of a century? In the years since Synbolics.com was registered, hundreds of millions of websites have followed that first domain name. According to the VeriSign Domain Name Industry Report, at … Continue reading
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SupremeCourt.gov relaunched: Fresh design, old PDFs, broken links, still no video. [#Gov20]
There’s a new .gov on the block: after years of a decidedly dated website, the Supreme Court has a new look — and address — at SupremeCourt.gov. The Supreme Court announced the new site without a great deal of fanfare, … Continue reading
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Executive Summary of FCC National Broadband Plan released [#BBplan]
This morning, the Federal Communications Commission provided an executive summary (PDF) of its National Broadband Plan. I’ve embedded it below. The FCC mobile broadband testing apps is likely to factor into gathering data for those speed assurances. The New York … Continue reading
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On @OKGo, viral video and going independent: What is Band 2.0?
Mental Health Break: the wonderfully creative video for “This Too Shall Pass,” from the OK Go album, “Of the Blue Colour of the Sky.” According to the shownotes on YouTube, the video was directed by James Frost, OK Go and Syyn … Continue reading
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Anil Dash on Expert Labs, useful online communities and “.com as the new .gov”
“Politicians know they can use social media to talk to people. What they don’t know yet is how to listen.” That was Anil Dash’s summary of a basicchallenges that lie ahead for many world’s representatives as they explore Twitter, Facebook, … Continue reading
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