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[via Protect Online Political Speech: Principle Archives ]: 1. The Internet is a unique and powerful First Amendment forum, which supports speech as "broad as human thought." It empowers ordinary people to be speakers and publishers with the ability to reach millions. As such, the Supreme Court has afforded speech on the Internet the highest…
Ok, someone needs to introduce this website to google maps! Manhattan restrooms and reviews You may also wonder why this entry is filed under technology and polics, well in part it is because my categories are not very well developed at this point, but it is also because mapping goes with technology…
I don't often talk straight up politics here, but this post from Donkey Rising really got me going. Ruy analizes some recent poll numbers that all basically show that Americans don't like Bush, or the republicans (that is a massiv oversimplification, but you can get read for yourself). My point here is that if Americans…
This was an interesting panel, I should have gone there from the beginning, but I wanted to go to the list building session. There wasn't much new to learn in the list building session so I bailed and joined up with this one. Here are some notes: Gettingit Marty Kearns: The technology department needs…
This was the first time that I heard Doc Searls speak and it was a rather enlightening talk. His presentation was titeled "What the Internet Is" (i think). Basic idea is that government is trying to rtegulate the internet, or rtather the content that is published on it (think political blogging and BICFA). Well…
I have said it before, and will say it again, and again and again: Marty Kearns is amayzing! I have seen Marty a few times this year already giving his presentation on Network Centric Advocacy (links to a .pdf) but this was by far the best presentation yet. I have to say his was one…
via HughHewitt.com: If you don't like being mocked by a live audience in real time, then don't be a talking head. This innovation sure made for an interesting backdrop to the standard five microphones and a few hundred people in the audience panel. I thought this was a great quote. For the most part…
I bet all of you have been so frustrated by the fact that the email this page feature on my site did not work for the last… well for as long as it was there. Thanks to the good folks over at Development Seed I now have a working emailpage.module and you can click that…
Noel turned me on to this blog article on tagging. It is a pretty good one. via Hey Norton! – Ken Norton's blog – The web is full of tags: Even better, the more people you ask, the more accurate it will get because the more you'll be able to identify trends and popular…
Growing out of these last two conference experiences, and the NXNEI idea, what if we were to create a wednesday night virtual meeting of civicspace users. Conference call and live chat/irc. An opportunity for people to get questions answered in real time, to show off new sites, hacks, modules, etc… Proposed Agenda: 15 minute…