This is on the 2008 ballot in Somerville (and apparently only in Someville) as a non-binding resolution on the Commonwealth. Not really sure what to make of it.
News: People are suprised that the CIA is reading their public twits.
Maybe the Somerville green line isn't happening. :(
Google needs to blow away half of the (awesome) roof garden so that they can spend a cool $2m so that their employees don't need to walk outside in order to get to the cafeteria.
Provocative essay. Probably at least partially true.
Nice write-up of a good talk by Bollier that I saw at Berkman.
Nice article! Maybe the babe in the bikini is not so necessary to this article about free software and politics that mentions Indonesia?
What a mess! The US government takes down JotForm because somebody put something shady online.
“We need boots on the ground,†said Joel Kelsey, a Consumers Union policy analyst. Mr. Kelsey advocated armies of people, from firefighters to television industry personnel, going into homes and setting up converter boxes for consumers.
Good for Zeynep publishing this. But I don't really see what the point is. The problem for democracy is that campaigning is about manipulating people to win votes, not about actually engaging in issues. The mass media approaches to this are not particularly less scary to me, even if they are not as effective as new more data-driven approaches.
Mayo Fuster Morrell looks likely to graduate soon from EUI. I'm looking forward to reading your dissertation.
"The Prison Policy Initiative documents the impact of mass incarceration on individuals, communities, and the national welfare in order to empower the public to improve criminal justice policy."
