Articles in government
Social technologies are cloaked in a rhetoric of liberation that tend to obscure the fact that never before have we handed so much personal information over in exchange for so little in return.
Cross-post from Radar:
This week gave us two reasons to reconsider the state of broadband connectivity in the US.
First, Finland has announced that it will guarantee broadband access as a right for all its citizens:
Starting next …
Stimuluswatch.org allows citizens to see local government requests for stimulus-spending projects, add details, vote projects up or down and generally discuss the merit of each. It is a great example of how the Internet lowers …
FDR was our radio president, JFK was our TV president and Barack Obama will be our Internet President.
Quietly at noon yesterday, as the world was fixated on the televised inauguration of Barack Obama, some obscure …




