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Wikipedia raises its bar
Wikipedia, the world's free, user-made encyclopedia, just announced that it will require people who make new entries to register before doing so. The gener…
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Christoph Engemann (2005)
The Citoyen of Electronic Government with Christoph Engemann CIS Fellow Monday December 5, 2005 12:30-1:30 PM Room 280A Stanford Law School Open to All Lunch…
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Levine Engages in Shameless Self-Promotion (and Speaks of Himself in the Third Person, to Boot)
What is a blog if not an opportunity to implicitly or explicitly convince the wary that you have something valuable to say, and then say it? Or, at least, show…
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Which Code is Law?
Today North Carolinas State Board of Elections has included Diebold to the list of recommended manufactures of voting maschines. This ruling comes despite the f…
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Utah Senator's Race
Maybe I'm the last to notice, but check out Pete Ashdown running against Senator Hatch. Particularly his issues list and his campaign wiki. I guess it'…
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Evidence of the need for Network Neutrality
Stanford Law student Dana Powers points me to this Washington Post article where BellSouth is asking for the right to regulate quality of service on their netwo…
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Don't take away my CrackBerry!
On an ongoing patent infringement battle between Research In Motion and NTP might lead to a BlackBerry service shutdown sometime within the month. A recent NY…
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Off to London
I'm off to London next week to give a couple lectures with my colleague, Elizabeth Townsend Gard, who is teaching at the London School of Economics this yea…
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From Idealism to Rancor in the House of Representatives
Hendrik Hertzberg has a great About Town entry in the New Yorker talking about Jean Schmidt, who recently gained notoriety for her slam against Jack Murtha, the…
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International Perspectives on the U.S.
Marjane Satrapi has a great hand-illustrated piece in the New York Times about perspectives on the U.S. in modern day France: http://satrapi.page.nytimes.com/b…
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What happened to American humility?
Ira Williams has posted a great article (beautifully laid out in a PDF, btw) on ChangeThis called "Speak Softly." Definitely worth a read. http://ch…
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Habitat JAM
There's a very cool global, participatory exercise happening yesterday, today, and tomorrow called Habitat JAM. It's being sponsored by the UN, the gov…