Internet politics

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• If politicians want to be trusted again, they must learn to listen

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 966
  The internet gives people more power over their lives - and over their leaders, too, argues Jeremy Hunt.
  14 hours ago

• Still More Copenhagen

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 146
  Grist’s David Roberts and Duke’s Own Michael Hardt™ have two more Copenhagen round-ups. Here’s Michael: Outside the official summit in Copenhagen, in fact, at the second scene of struggle over the common, one of the most interesting strategies of the activists and social movements was to act on a division ...
  17 hours ago

• $45 billion: a sour-tasting decade of out-of-control political spending

  
  Scholars and Rogues — Authority: 507
  Add up every nickel and dime recorded by the Federal Election Commission and state election commissions in this decade now ending. Result: Americans have given more than $24.2 billion in campaign contributions to federal and state incumbents and challengers. Contributions to all federal candidates for House ...
  18 hours ago

• Will Copyright Kill eHealth?

  
  Technology, Thoughts, and Trinkets — Authority: 453
  Pages:  1 2 There is a metric ton of cash that’s being poured into eHealth initiatives , and to date it doesn’t appear that governments are recognizing the relationship between copyright law and eHealth. That makes a lot of sense in some ways – when most of us think ‘medicine’ and ‘doctor’ we ...
  1 day ago

• Scary Thought

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 146
  …from Kevin Drum : Real heroes of HCR: Pat Toomey and Club for Growth. Without them, Specter stays in GOP and Dems only have 59 votes. Thanks, Pat!
  2 days ago

• Deal Made

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 146
  With Nelson placated and on board, it looks as if the Democrats in the Senate will be able to pass health care reform by Christmas after all. Talking points: The manager’s amendment builds upon the strong bill we already have. Protects our good coverage, cost, and affordability number * Reduces Deficits — ...
  2 days ago

• Municipal WiFi

  
  From My Bottom Step — Authority: 144
  Remember my City Hall Shocker post in which I expressed my hope for increased City Hall support for WiFi in London? There was a staff report to the 2009/11/18 meeting of Board of Control about the recent award of an RFP for WAN (wide area network) services. Specifically, that authorization be given to negotiate a ...
  3 days ago

• Digital Culture Links: December 18th 2009

  
  Tama Leaver dot Net — Authority: 461
  Links for December 16th 2009 through December 18th 2009: Privacy groups challenge Facebook on new settings [BBC News] - "Ten privacy groups in the US have filed a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission over Facebooks new privacy settings. They argue that privacy on the social networking site has been adversely ...
  3 days ago

• Senator of the Day

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 146
  Oregon’s Jeff Merkley . Merkley: There’s no question that the Senate has become dysfunctional, and it’s not good for democracy. I think there are a lot of reasons for that. First, not a lot of folks know each other. We’re here three days a week and then back in our districts. Sometimes you need personal ...
  3 days ago

• Social Network Photos Bridge Taiwan-China Gap

  
  Raw File — Authority: 92
  The U.S. Postal Service expects to deliver over 3 billion cards and letters this holiday season. Halfway around the world, a group of young web enthusiasts have initiated their own version of Americans’ traditional year-end communication flurry. Taiwan Would Like to Know is a cooperative endeavor between Taiwanese ...
  3 days ago

• Iranian Cyber Army Hacks Twitter

  
  Newsalistic — Authority: 167
  
  3 days ago

• Money for increasing broadband access coming to NM

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 604
  Some areas of New Mexico, like much of the nation, suffer from insufficient access to high speed Internet–access that could provide educational and business opportunities. Today, the White House announced that New Mexico will receive over $1.4 million for increasing access to broadband internet, the New Mexico ...
  4 days ago

• The Internets Candidate for California Governor Wars with the Internet [Commenters]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 862
  Meg Whitman would like to be governor of California, but the former eBay CEO should demonstrate she can govern her own website first: The commenters on MegWhitman.com are in open revolt. Its brutal. The campaign site only shows the most recent 30 comments. But even from this very limited sampling, a common theme ...
  4 days ago

• Wikipedias Terra Incognita

  
  Idea of the Day — Authority: 592
  Friday | Todays idea: There are more Wikipedia articles written about fictional places like Middle Earth than about many countries in Africa, the Americas and Asia, a new map reveals. Behold the "terra incognita" of the Internet. [ Guardian , Zero Geography ]
  4 days ago

• How Pedophilia Lost Its Cool

  
  Idea of the Day — Authority: 592
  Thursday | Todays idea: The priest sex scandals and the Roman Polanski case show a shift in American attitudes against pedophilia, an essay says -- after a period in which "some enlightened folk took a considerably more relaxed view of the question of sex with youngsters." [ First Things ]
  4 days ago

• A teachable moment for activists, grassroots and radicals everywhere brought to you by Joe Lieberman

  
  culturekitchen - fresh dissent served daily — Authority: 531
  Booman Tribune ~ A Progressive Community Essentially, Lieberman heard that Dean and Weiner and a lot of the blogosphere were happy about a Medicare Buy-In proposal, which was something he himself has supported, and that was enough for him to spike the idea. Boomans referring to reports put out by The New York ...
  5 days ago

• Reform the Insurance Dinosaurs Like

  
  Idea of the Day — Authority: 592
  Wednesday | Todays idea: Insurance companies favor the health-care overhaul because it will "save their industry from the scrap heap," an article says, even as it satisfies popular demand for close government oversight. [ Harpers Magazine ]
  5 days ago

• Things You Should Know About Home Mortgage Refinancing | Good Ezines

  
  Mortgage online — Authority: 161
  Considering to take a home mortgage refinancing could be daunting. Some people might consider several aspects such as getting a lower interest rate, accelerating extra debts, lengthening the repayment time, minimizing or correcting risk ...
  6 days ago

• What You Don’t Know Won’t Hurt You

  
  Tom Collins' World Wide Web Log — Authority: 109
  Shortly after eleven this morning, Gretchen put through a call from a fellow named Galbraith who said he works for the National Archives. Tom: Hello, this is Tom Collins.  How may I help you? Galbraith: Mr. Collins, I’m afraid we’re in a bit of pickle down here at the Archives, and I was wondering if perhaps I ...
  6 days ago

• Miami Herald asks online readers for donations (AP)

  
  Technology Blog — Authority: 169
  AP - The Miami Herald began Tuesday asking readers of its Web site to voluntarily pay for the privilege, a new wrinkle in newspapers’ ongoing battle to increase revenue from their online operations.Go here to see the original: Miami Herald asks online readers for donations (AP) [...]
  6 days ago

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