'Blog of the Month' Category
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CA First Amendment Coalition
November 10, 2004CFAC: California First Amendment Coalition There’s some great information on CFAC’s website including the song, “You’ve Got a Right to Know”, an interview with Seymour Hersh at their most recent assembly, and tons of other information on first amendment rights and open government news.
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BeSpacific
October 5, 2004beSpacific Here’s the BOTM for October (ok I’m sort of like First Monday who’s proper name should be “First Monday-ish”!). BeSpacific gives updates on issues including copyright, privacy, censorship, the Patriot Act, ID theft, and freedom of information. It’s run by Sabrina Pacifici, one of the creators/editors for LLRX.com, the web zine on legal issues. [...]
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Group promotes openness in govt
September 5, 2004Open The Government BOTM for september serves up opengovernment.org. This coalition of open govt advocates includes OMBWatch, ALA, Federation of American Scientists etc. Their just-released ‘Report Card’ Finds 60% Rise in Secrecy at a Rising Cost of $6.5 Billion Last Year.
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BOTM: Outraged moderates
August 9, 2004Outraged Moderates Why are we highlighting outraged moderates this month? This blog focuses on government documents and other primary sources. What Thad Anderson is doing, besides blogging(!), is distributing government documents via peer-to-peer (p2p) networks through his Download For Democracy campaign. He’s distributing over 600 govt documents in this manner.
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Center for Democracy and technology
July 3, 2004Drum roll please… Are you ready for the featured blog for July? Here it is: The Center for Democracy and Technology The CDT “works to promote democratic values and constitutional liberties in the digital age. With expertise in law, technology, and policy, CDT seeks practical solutions to enhance free expression and privacy in global communications [...]
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Abusable technology awareness center
June 8, 2004ATAC: Abusable Technologies Awareness Center This looks like quite a useful blog. Their goal is to “provide current and accurate information about technology that oversteps its bounds.” The list of panelists is quite impressive and, if the first two posts are any proof, there is quite a bit of interesting discussion going on here (see [...]