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."
Nice summary of the bruhaha over the republic memo calling for copyright reform. That will teach them.
Striking editorial by murdered Sri Lankan journalist published posthumously.
"(n)Code Solutions, a subsidiary of GNFC, produces digital certificates for the Government of India (including the digital Aadhaar card for over 1 billion Indians). The solution was the result of a partnership with Entrust."
A extremely convoluted and almost impenetrable argument that, I think, argues that the OKCon crowd is not being clear enough about who the end users are. Might have made a good tweet.
