Wiretap My What?
By Tony Kontzer This is a big topic. We're talking about expanding federal government access to everything from emails and text messages to social networking posts and peer-to-peer messaging networks.
Personal Democracy Forum
September 29, 2010
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 4:15 PM/EST
August 7, 2008
Thursday, August 07, 2008 11:47 AM/EST
Web Politics, Circa 2000
Micah Sifry is unimpressed by MyDebates.org, a site launched by the Commission on Presidential Debates and MySpace. Very unimpressed: This is pathetic. It's like saying, "I just bought a synthesizer and all I can think to do with it...
July 16, 2008
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 11:08 AM/EST
Rebooting America
Rebooting America: Ideas for Redesigning American Democracy for the Internet Age is an anthology of essays put together by the folks at Personal Democracy Forum. The central theme is using technology to improve government and politics. The writers are...
July 11, 2008
Friday, July 11, 2008 10:54 AM/EST
National Tech Policy
As mentioned in this column, the US lacks a serious technology policy and continues to face a digital divide in terms of broadband access. Looks like we could learn something from the Aussies: Australia's government has launched an ambitious...
July 10, 2008
Thursday, July 10, 2008 5:07 PM/EST
Technotopian No More
My report from the 2008 Personal Democracy Forum: "The mood, while hopeful, reflected some realities too often overlooked in the first blush of love between policy wonks and geeks."...
June 30, 2008
Monday, June 30, 2008 3:43 PM/EST
McCain, Unplugged
Does it matter that John McCain doesn't know how to use the Internet? I keep seeing the clip of Tracy Russo piling on Mark Soohoo at PDF -- on Facebook pages, C-Span, and blogs (watch it at the bottom of...
June 25, 2008
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 11:16 AM/EST
Cerf on the non-realtime net
Vint Cerf and I chatted for a while at PDF about the internet's non-imminent death (I interviewed Cerf for this article on the subject; related post here). In this Beet.TV clip recorded at the conference, Cerf talks about ways...
June 24, 2008
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 10:47 AM/EST
PDF: Internet for Everyone
Announced at PDF: Internet for Everyone. Non-partisan organization hopes to make broadband access available to all Americans. Too important to be left to Congress and carriers. Necessary to remain competitive. Digital divide not shrinking, not just economic -- includes...
June 23, 2008
Monday, June 23, 2008 2:27 PM/EST
PDF: Presidential campaigns
Internet honchos from presidential campaigns (Obama, McCain, Clinton, Romney, Paul, Edwards) talk about what's working online. Tracy Russo of the Edwards campaign won't let McCain's Mark Soohoo wriggle free when he says it's no big deal that McCain doesn't...
Monday, June 23, 2008 2:15 PM/EST
PDF: Clay Shirky
Clay Shirky summarizes his new book: "group action just got easier." He points to some interesting organizational initiatives. So far, at least, much political energy online goes into stopping things or protesting them. We're waiting for political groups that...
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