I'll be going live to the web from time-to-time during the next two-and-a-half days as Twitter (my handle is @mlsif), and every time I'm actually streaming live, Qik--the fabulous live video streaming service we're using--will send a tweet letting you know.
| Read more ...Everyone knows what you did last summer. In spite of a small victory for privacy last month, Facebook's policies still raise major privacy questions -- and young people may be developing an entirely new conception of privacy online.
| Read more ...TechPresident presents our 2007 Campaign Web Index, a year-end study of which campaigns are best at using the various elements of the web. For the survey we've tapped the very brightest minds working in tech and politics, who happen to be our own bloggers and other friends (some respondents have asked to remain anonymous). Check out their votes and opinions for who's best at online video, advertising, social networking, rapid response, and much more. Some of their responses may surprise you, and some may be entirely predictable. And the overall winners are...
| Read more ...Who Will Be America's First TechPresident? A Challenge to the Candidates
By Andrew Rasiej and Micah L. Sifry
As we prepare to pick the next President, we’d like to challenge all the candidates running to tell America: How should this public resource be used to make our country more competitive, more democratic, healthier, better educated, more secure and financially sound?
I’ll be the first to admit my sense of timing is way out of whack. I always tend to overestimate what I can get done in a given period of time. I had planned to have all three of the CA Gov sites done before the primary. Now here we are a month after and I’m just wrapping up Arnold. Micah has been very diligent in hounding me to get this done, so don’t blame him. I just know y’all are eagerly awaiting the next installment of this series (um… yeah… I tell myself that, anyway).
Anyway, sorry it has taken so long, but here is a close look at Arnold "The Governator" Schwarzenegger’s site. If you have suggestions for other sites you’d like me to review, feel free to mail them to me at websitereview@kungfuquip.com
As a reminder, the six scoring criteria are:
• Appearance
• Communication
• Depth of Content
• Mobilization
• Technology
• Usability
Schwarzenegger is running a multi-million dollar race in the largest state in the country, yet his website, beneath the shiny exterior, has very little to offer. It's a fairly weak offering for a really, really strong candidate. Complete Review »
Anonymity Won't Kill the Internet
A DoD program meant to assist military personnel in registering and voting is drawing Congressional fire over the hiring of a new overseer. A bipartisan group of Congressmen is irked that the Federal Voting Assistance Program has failed to meet the goal of making it easier for those in uniform to participate in the democracy they protect.
While not specifically an Internet issue, the Government Computer News (Yes, I read it. I'm that geeky) article had two passages that caught my eye.
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login or register to post comments | Read more ...I think it's still too early to talk about how useful Twitter was during this week's Mumbai attacks. The tendency is to assume it was more powerful than it actually was; Om Malik's take is the only skeptical viewpoint I've found so far. But we can say that Twitter has had a great month. Here's an incomplete list of Twitter's organizational/democratic/self-governance accomplishments in November...
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Law enforcement in Mumbai, the Indian city that has been the scene of devastating terrorist attacks this week, invoked section 19 of the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act of 1995 in an attempt to clamp down upon TV networks' live reporting coming out of the city. "Coverage of the actions taken by the police against the terrorists in South Mumbai," reported India's Business Standard, "is causing impediment in the police action."
A news black out might stop TV crews from broadcasting. But it hasn't done much to stem the stream of live news about the coordinated attacks pouring out of Mumbai via all forms of social media, from Twitter to Flickr to Wikipedia.
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