Cultivated Play: Farmville
On what Farmville is (not a game) and what it means (nothing good).
lonelysandwich: excerpt from Obama’s speech to his staff
"...would he be instituting the most open and participatory executive branch our nation has seen, directly following the most closed and secretive? ... Oh, the answers are: yes, sure, and of course."
Adam L. Penenberg: Internet Freeloaders
He contends that users should pay for the bandwidth they consume, and that that would keep the internet neutral.
Tim Wu: Why you should care about network neutrality.
What would Orwell do?
Facebook a front for CIA data collection? Hmm.
XML.com: Paul Ford: Screenscraping the Senate
"to collect as much data on the U.S. government as I could, convert it to RDF, and build a site and a web service that make it possible to explore that data"
The New York Times: Knowing Their Politics by the Software They Use
"The Web sites of Senator John Kerry and the Democratic National Committee run mainly on the technology of the computing counterculture: open-source software that is distributed free, and improved and debugged by far-flung networks of programmers."