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Creative editing of Whitehouse Information
December 24, 2003White House Web Scrubbing (washingtonpost.com) Offending Comments on Iraq Disappear From Site. By Dana Milbank. Washington Post, Thursday, December 18, 2003; Page A05. Offending comments purged, headline changed, Web sites scrubbed of vaguely “sensitive” information, passwords required to access unclassified information. It’s not quite Soviet-style airbrushing, but the Bush administration has been using cyberspace to [...]
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P.U.-litzer Prizes for 2003
December 23, 2003Infoshop News – Announcing the P.U.-litzer Prizes for 2003. The P.U.-litzer Prizes were established more than a decade ago to give recognition to the stinkiest media performances of the year. [Thanks Chuck0!]
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Guardian: best of British blogging
December 23, 2003Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | The best of British blogging. The Guardian’s second British blog awards found the country’s webloggers in fine form, with last year’s high standards maintained.
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Aussies do it right: E-Voting
December 23, 2003Wired News: Aussies Do It Right: E-Voting While critics in the United States grow more concerned each day about the insecurity of electronic voting machines, Australians designed a system two years ago that addressed and eased most of those concerns: They chose to make the software running their system completely open to public scrutiny. Read [...]
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Friends, Romans, customers
December 22, 2003Fighting the death sentence – www.theage.com.au Don Watson has written a book, Death Sentence, The Decay of Public Language that “charts how ‘managerial language’ has infiltrated the English of politics, business, bureaucracy, education and the arts.” This article, from the Australian The Age (November 1, 2003), relates more of his ideas and describes a dinner [...]
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Canadian govt RSS feed!
December 18, 2003Government of Canada Newsroom – Choose Your News: The Canadian government is syndicating its daily news items as RSS feeds! Get national news, regional news, news on Aboriginal peoples, business, children and educators. Very cool. [thanks boing boing]
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Open Access to Scientific Research Gets Boost
December 17, 2003Newswise, Released: Fri 12-Dec-2003, 12:00 ET. “The open access movement, in which published scientific research is made freely available on the Internet, gained momentum today [Dec. 12, 2003] when Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP), the peer-reviewed journal of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, announced it would adopt an open access policy and provide its [...]
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New Government Database Funded
December 16, 2003National Journal’s Technology Daily reports [available to subscribers] that “The Senate’s top leaders included in the omnibus spending bill for fiscal 2004 a provision to build a computer database for agriculture-based research efforts at certain universities…. Under the initiative, researchers would log and track each other’s efforts via a computer database at an analysis center [...]
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A secrecy timeline
December 16, 2003The Bush administration is doing the public’s business out of the public eye. Here’s how-and why. A secrecy timeline U.S. News By Christopher H. Schmitt and Edward T. Pound. (12/22/03). More at BeSpacific
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CRS works for Congress, not the People
December 16, 2003Ney draws line at public access to research By PAUL M. KRAWZAK, Copley News Service. Ney launched a new service that allows lawmakers to make reports of their choosing available via a link in their congressional Web sites…. At the same time, Ney called a halt to efforts to provide greater public access to the [...]