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I'm a researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, a fellow at Public.Resource.Org, and the online director at Rootstrikers.Read more...
Joey Mornin
Why I Take Good Care of My Macintosh Computer
On the occasion of configuring a new MacBook: Because it broods under its hood like a perched falcon, Because it jumps like a skittish horse and sometimes throws me Because it is poky when cold Because plastic is a sad, strong material that is charming to rodents Because it is flighty Because my mind flies [...]
internet or Internet?
I finally found a clear answer: An internet (lowercase “i”) is any collection of separate physical networks, interconnected by a common protocol, to form a single logical network. The Internet (uppercase “I”) is the worldwide collection of interconnected networks, which grew out of the original ARPANET, that uses Internet Protocol (IP) to link the various physical networks [...]
Deploy Redmine in Five Minutes on Amazon EC2
Redmine is a powerful, open source, Rails-based project management tool. Here’s how to get it running almost instantly.
Half of American Voters Think Most Members of Congress are Corrupt
From Rasmussen: A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 48% of Likely U.S. Voters believe that most members of Congress are corrupt. Just 28% disagree, and another 24% are not sure. More.
Wrangling the FEC’s 2012 Presidential Campaign Finance Data
The 2012 presidential candidates filed their quarterly campaign finance reports on July 15, which the FEC recently added to its Presidential campaign finance tracker. The FEC’s exploration tool provides some basic insights—for instance, the amount a candidate has received from individuals vs. PACs—but for those of us who’d like to know more, the FEC provides [...]
Announcing the Conference on the Constitutional Convention
Cross-posted at the Fix Congress First blog and mailing list. Dear Supporters, We’re writing to invite you to attend (at no charge) an important upcoming conference at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, MA. It’s called the Conference on the Constitutional Convention, and more info can be found at www.ConConCon.org. From both the Right and the [...]
The House will publish legislative data as XML
Hillicon Valley reports that John Boehner and Eric Cantor have called for all legislative data to be published in a structured format: “We believe that this legislative data, using standardized machine-readable formats, should be publicly available on House websites,” the pair wrote to House Clerk Karen Haas. “Ultimately, legislative data is the property of the [...]
Sixteen principles of open government
At Transparency Camp 2011, James Tauber of GovTrack laid out sixteen principles of open government. They are: Information is not meaningfully public if it is not available on the Internet for free. Primary data is data as collected at the source, with the finest possible level of granularity, not in aggregate or modified forms. Data [...]
