'Blog of the Month' Category
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BOTM for February: the Benton Foundation
February 2, 2006Headlines | Benton Foundation This month’s Blog-of-the-month (BOTM) highlights the Benton Foundation‘s Communications-Related Headlines. Their mission is to, “articulate a public interest vision for the digital age and to demonstrate the value of communications for solving social problems. Current priorities include: promoting a vision and policy alternatives for the digital age in which the benefit [...]
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BOTM: Infowarrior
January 1, 2006Richard Forno’s infowarrior is this month’s Blog of the Month. It has mostly full-text re-posts of articles on security, privacy, government policy, and more. It is a mailing list, but you can browse the archive like a blog and it has an RSS feed (http://www.mail-archive.com/infowarrior@g2-forward.org/maillist.xml). Forno says: Items covered include distributing new commentary and articles [...]
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Blog of the Month
December 9, 2005For this month’s BOTM we feature another blog that some of us maintain: FreeGovInfo. We’ve never featured it here and, since we often post things there that we used to post here, we thought it important to mention it! Free Government Information (FGI) is a place for initiating dialogue and building consensus among the various [...]
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Blog of the Month
September 2, 2005This month’s “blog of the month” is actually an “RSS Feed of the Month.” del.icio.us/popular This is an RSS feed of the popular page from del.icio.us. del.icio.us is a social bookmarks manager. It allows people to easily keep track on the web of a personal collection of links, categorize those links with keywords, and share [...]
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Open Stacks!
May 6, 2005Open Stacks Greg Schwartz promotes information access and literacy for all. Check out his podcasts regarding all areas of interest to libraries. He even mentions Free Government Information in Podcast #10. Check it out.
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Who’s knowledge? Public’s knowledge!
April 1, 2005Public Knowledge – Why These Issues Matter Public Knowledge is April’s BOTM, and this isn’t an April fool’s joke. PK aims to make sure copyright and intellectual property law work to further scientific research and development, artistic creativity, technological advancement, civic discourse and free speech. Find out more about what they do, what issues they [...]
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The memory hole!
March 2, 2005The Memory Hole [rescuing knowledge, freeing information] March, 2005 and it’s time once again to celebrate the blog of the month! The memory hole is an important site that collects, among other items, government documents that have been leaked, pulled from govt web servers, or otherwise in danger of disappearing (or never appearing at all!). [...]
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Dan Gillmor is BOTM for February 2005
February 7, 2005Dan Gillmor on Grassroots Journalism, Etc. Dan Gillmor’s weblog is devoted to the discussion of the issues facing grassroots journalism as it grows into an important force in society. Until 2004, he was a columnist at the San Jose Mercury News, where he wrote about issues of technology and media.
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Regret the error is BOTM for 1/2005
January 2, 2005Regret The Error Here’s the first BOTM for 2005: Regret The Error. this site “reports on corrections, retractions, clarifications, and trends regarding accuracy and honesty in North American media.”
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OMBWatch wins December BOTM!
December 4, 2004OMB Watch OMB Watch is a nonprofit government watchdog organization located in Washington, DC. They promote open government, accountability and citizen participation. Issues that they’re interested in include: the Federal Budget (have you seen our deficit lately?!); Information & Access; Nonprofit Advocacy; and Regulatory Policy. Check out OMBWatcher, their biweekly newsletter chock full of news [...]