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CA gov looking to limit P2P
September 22, 2004California To Set P2P Policy Governor Schwarzenegger signed executive order S-16-04 last week charging the state CIO, Clark Kelso, with setting up a policy on statewide use of P2P technologies. While the order mentions legitimate uses of P2P, it looks to me like the RIAA and MPAA have his ear. P2P is already being used [...]
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blog lists Government Documents
September 21, 2004CoolGov “Jon and Elizabeth” list “neat” U.S. government information they find. Thanks to Cory
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4th annual global e-government study
September 20, 2004Global E-Government, 2004 Full Report Here’s the fourth annual update on global e-government from the Taubman Center for Public Policy at Brown University. The groups did a detailed analysis of 1,935 government websites in 198 different nations undertaken during Summer, 2004 to see how e-government is unfolding around the world. They also compared their findings [...]
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Outfoxed interviews released under CC
September 20, 2004Outfoxed interviews released under Creative Commons Go to Torrentocracy to download all the interviews used in the movie, “Outfoxed”. Robert Greenwald has agreed to release the interviews within Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism under a Creative Commons non-commercial license (press release). “maybe, just maybe, we can paradigm shift ourselves to a place where all [...]
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Diebold GEMS tabulator
September 17, 2004Consumer Report Part 1: Look at this — the Diebold GEMS central tabulator contains a stunning security hole | Black Box Voting The major news organizations are not covering this. Is it because it is not correct? Surely, someone else should examining this issue! Issue: Manipulation technique found in the Diebold central tabulator — 1,000 [...]
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Stand up for your rights
September 16, 2004Stand up for your rights by Danny O’Brien. New Scientist vol 183, issue 2463 – 04 September 2004, page 15. reprinted in Upd-discuss — Discussion list for Union for the Public Domain, “New Scientist: Copyright is hampering our basic freedoms” There is a potential time bomb ticking here. Part of the bargain with authors of [...]
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Weapons of mass delusion
September 14, 2004Weapons of mass delusion by Richard Forno I wouldn’t normally advertise new books, but this one’s of interest, both for its content examining American culture since September 11, and for the fact that he’s just released it under a Creative Commons license.
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How the War on Terrorism Affects Access to Information and the Public’s Right to Know
September 14, 2004Homefront Confidential. Fifth Edition, September 2004. The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. “Citizens seem to not realize how drastically their right to know has been limited in the last three years,” said Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Director Lucy Dalglish. “Even journalists will be astonished at the lengthy list of actions [...]
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Another Diebold security hole
September 7, 2004Diebold GEMS central tabulator contains a stunning security hole This was recently posted at blackboxvoting.org. The scary part is that the central tabulator is the machine that receives the votes from individual touch screen terminals! What’s more, here in CA, Gov. Swarzenegger froze the funds, allocated by Secretary of State Kevin Shelley, which would have [...]
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What is an Information Commons?
September 6, 2004The term “information commons” is used in different ways in different contexts. One idea “…draws on the historical existence of the English commons–pieces of land to which members of a community had specific rights of access to meet important human needs…” (From the Editor Inaugural Issue, June 2002, info-commons.org). This leads to “commons” as places [...]