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These are the posts from February 2009

February 27, 2009
Posted by David Karpf

Tweeting their way to victory? Color me confused…

Think Progress had a good piece on Wednesday about the Republican leadership’s new love affair with the Twitter.  Apparently, Representative John Culberson (R-TX), thinks that he and his 8,097 twitter-followers are going to retake congress thanks to this powerful new technology.
I’m gonna need some help here.
I only joined Twitter a couple of months ago — [...]

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February 25, 2009
Posted by Bill Herman

Argument Against Joining Lessig’s Strike

Lawrence Lessig, who is quite nearly my idol, is trying to enlist would-be campaign donors in a strike for change. The idea is that campaign donors will go on strike; we’re not to give money to candidates for federal office until and unless those politicians commit to publicly funded campaigns.
I’ve been thinking about this for [...]

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Posted Under Activism Congress Corruption Politics

February 13, 2009
Posted by Bill Herman

Stimulus Bill: Content Filtering Out, Open Networks Requirement In

Thanks to Alex Curtis at Public Knowledge for the stimulus bill content filtering update. The good news is in the headline: No on content filtering, yes on open network requirements.
He also posted a PDF of the relevant section. See the highlighted portion on page 9 for the nondiscrimination requirements.

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Posted Under Congress Copyright DRM FCC Internet policy Media Law and Policy Network neutrality Politics Telecommunications policy

February 10, 2009
Posted by Bill Herman

WikiLeaks Posts Complete Library of Post-1990 Congressional Research Service Reports

As the WikiLeaks site describes it, here’s some change you can download. I’ll let them explain:
February 8, 2009
EDITORIAL
Change you can download.
Wikileaks has released nearly a billion dollars worth of quasi-secret reports commissioned by the United States Congress.
A full listing of reports is available here.
The 6,780 reports, current as of this month, comprise over 127,000 pages [...]

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February 5, 2009
Posted by David Karpf

When Did Bill Gates Get All Punk Rock?

Check this out.
Apparently Gates was giving a talk about malaria at the Technology, Entertainment, Design conference and, after mentioning that Malaria was spread by mosquitoes, opened a jar onstage and said “I brought some. Here I’ll let them roam around. There is no reason only poor people should be infected.”
For serious.  Bill Gates just unleashed [...]

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February 1, 2009
Posted by David Karpf

Right-Wing Blogpocalypse: Pajamas Media calls it quits

Man, some days I just love my research topic.  Yesterday, Roger L. Simon, the head of Pajamas Media, sent a letter to all Pajamas Media network bloggers indicating that, in essence, they’re all fired.  That represents about 40% of the elite conservative blogosphere according to my readings, including such major sites as Hot Air, Instapundit, [...]

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